University of St. Thomas Tommie North Residence Hall

The first level features amenities open to the entire campus community, including:

• kitchen and cafeteria featuring cooking on display
• dining area for 480 students with partitions that open to flex spaces for larger events
• two classrooms
• a clubroom and game room

There are also two apartments for resident directors or faculty.

The building has one level of below-grade parking for 116 vehicles and racks for 173 bicycles.

The hall shares a below-grade wall with the university's Iversen Center of Faith, an expansion at the historic Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas completed by our team. A pedestrian tunnel connects the hall to Ireland Hall, the Chapel and Iversen Center for Faith. It will eventually connect to the second-year residence hall on the south side of the Chapel, ultimately strengthening the first and second year student community.

In addition to building the Tommie North Hall, we completed improvements on the adjacent Ireland Hall, which is also used for first-year students and features a classroom and multiple study rooms and lounges. Improvements included:

• modernizing every dorm room, corridor and restroom
• modernizing the lower-level community spaces
• building a two-bedroom apartment for the hall director
• replacing a stack of dorms with an elevator that runs from the newly-built underground corridors to the top level

Exterior improvements included replacing every single window, adding one exterior single-use staircase for the new apartment and one new ADA egress door near the elevator.