A new student apartment tower at the University of Tennessee is underway

Lina Portman2 weeks ago

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A new student apartment project is under construction near ever-changing Cumberland Avenue as the University of Tennessee Knoxville community evolves to accommodate a growing student population.

VERVE Knoxville by Subtext is expected to finish by summer 2026 at 1919 Lake Ave., just south of 20th Street and Cumberland Avenue. It is separate from the massive Core Spaces project under construction along the Strip.

VERVE Knoxville will have 136 apartments ranging from one to four bedrooms. This is enough to accommodate nearly 500 students.

The fully furnished apartments would have a variety of amenities, including high-speed internet, washers and dryers. Common amenities would include a sauna, fitness center, yoga studio, pool deck and sky lounge.

The building will be 14 stories tall with nine residential floors and 318 parking spaces across five and a half parking levels. The building measures just over 329,000 square feet.

“We build our plans from the resident down and think about their needs, their wants and how we can help them live their best life,” said Brandt Stiles, founding partner of Subtext.

VERVE Knoxville developer is already on Cumberland Avenue

Subtext is working with Brinkmann Constructors to build the VERVE Tower. Both companies are based in St. Louis.

VERVE Knoxville is the second Subtext project in Knoxville. In 2018, the company completed TENN, a student housing building located at 1830 Cumberland Ave.

“We love the market and we're actively looking at other locations,” Stiles told Knox News. “We don't currently have anything moving forward, but we are actively trying to identify other opportunities that we think the market can support. We can continue to support more student housing there in a few years.”

FNBO is financing the construction of the VERVE tower and Dynamik Design is responsible for the architectural design.

VERVE Knoxville joins student housing overhaul

Along Cumberland Avenue, Union Knoxville is the newest student apartment complex to accept leases for this fall. Global real estate company Greystar developed the 2136 Cumberland Ave. project, which offers move-ins beginning Aug. 15.

Core Spaces continues to build its own student housing and plans to complete the first phase of Hub Knoxville by fall 2025. Located along the 1900 block of Cumberland Avenue, Hub Knoxville will include approximately 600 units in two 10-story buildings. floors and one of seven floors. story construction.

In April, Villas Student Housing and Rhode Partners broke ground on two new student housing buildings adjacent to where the proposed pedestrian bridge would land on the south waterfront. The developers plan to complete it by summer 2026, with capacity to accommodate 605 students.

On campus, a historic public-private partnership to build three new dormitories began in March. This UT project could accommodate nearly 3,000 students on campus.

Keenan Thomas is a higher education journalist. Email [email protected]. X, formerly known as Twitter @specialk2real.

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VERVE Knoxville developer is already on Cumberland Avenue

VERVE Knoxville joins student housing overhaul

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