The Santa Cruz Sentinel published the photo above on June 20. The caption reads:
"A drone photo taken Thursday morning shows the grading that has taken place in the East Meadow at UC Santa Cruz as construction has begun near the intersection of Coolidge and Hagar drives for a project UCSC is calling Student Housing West. According to the university, the project will provide housing for about 3,000 students at two sites, which will be constructed in two phases. The first phase, known as the Hagar Development, will take up about 120,000 assignable square feet on 17 acres in the East Meadow. The development, which is intended for students with families, will include 140 two-bedroom apartment units in 35 two-story, four-plex buildings, a childcare facility, community building, a maintenance building and a wastewater treatment plant. The second phase of the project, known as the Heller Development, includes approximately 950 housing units in six, five to seven-story buildings spanning 780,000 assignable square feet that are a mix of apartment and communal style units and a new wastewater treatment plant. University staff and faculty were joined by a coalition of community members who fought unsuccessfully to stop the project, saying that the East Meadow should be preserved as a natural landscape. They also challenged the university’s promise to offer affordable rents. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)"
As noted in the caption, this is a two-phase project on two widely-separated sites on the UCSC campus. The Hagar Development, located at one of the most open and prominent street corners on the campus, will replace the view below:
