Bringing the discussion into this thread.
Currently I count 3886 beds across 1457 units in completed, privately owned apartment complexes marketed exclusively to students in the immediate Hillsborough Street corridor.
The under construction Hub on Campus contributes a whopping 2195 beds in 667 units, totaling 6082 beds in 2124 units.
Next there are two buildings that were built privately but are now university owned and are operated as dorms: North Hall and University Towers (Yes, NCSU owns it now). This grows the count to 7209 beds in 2736 units.
Next including the apartments that are available to anyone but are near NCSU and popular with students and you get 8051 beds in 3200 units. Mind you, this does not include any of the Village District complexes north of Clark Avenue, which tend to be more expensive and less focused on students.
There are a few more in various stages of planning but I’m not sure how likely any of them are to follow through with construction so I won’t count them.
Figure once Hub is complete, we’re talking somewhere between 7,000 and 8,000 students will live on Hillsborough Street. Total enrollment is about 39,000. I can’t figure out how to know how many of these are distance education students versus attending in person this year, but in 2019 there were about 34,000 students attending on-campus courses.
So that means once Hub On Campus is done, there will be room for about 20-25% of the entire student body to live on Hillsborough Street. Yeah, that’s quite a lot.