AUT invites students to towering new 697-unit accommodation block: $375/week studios
15 Dec, 2020 04:44 AM
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The towering blocks on the Wakefield St/Mayoral Drive corner. Photo / Supplied
AUT this week invited students to apply for places in the new twin-tower 697-unit high-rise accommodation block near its main inner-city Auckland campus. Just as the pandemic decimates the international student market, construction of the towering units has been completed and places are ready to be occupied early next year.
The new AUT-leased block adds to already burgeoning student accommodation just as overseas enrolments drop. All up, 2871 new AUT and Auckland University student accommodation rooms either opened this year or will do so next year, or are planned in the CBD by 2023. They are: