***Disclaimer: Features may differ from how they appear on our website.
This kick-ass five bedroom, two bathroom apartment is the perfect place for students who are ready to move on from res, but want to stay right by campus. With five bedrooms this is a great pad for social butterflies or those who run with a bigger squad.
We can totally see you enjoying a cozy night in with the roomies on the comfy living room furniture, or snuggling up with a good book in your sweet bedroom on a quiet night.
Get ready to take advantage of the fully equipped kitchen with stainless steel appliances (fridge, stove, microwave AND dishwasher!) and tons of counter space, as well as abundant seating space on the comfy living room couch, with an loveseat for even more seating when your friends pop by.
Whether you’re up for a rowdy game night or a chill movie night, this is definitely the right spot for you.
THE DETAILS
Each bedroom
🛏️ A double bed with enough room to store your luggage underneath
🪑 A study nook fully equipped with a desk, chair, and wall shelves
👚 A large closet for clothing, shoes and other storage
🎒 Hooks for bags and any stuff you need to grab and go!
Bathroom
🛀 Two bathroom, both with a shower
🌟 A large mirror so you can get ready in style
🧻 Extra storage for bathroom items, ‘cos nobody wants to run outta TP…
Kitchen
💎 Fully equipped with stainless steel appliances, including a fridge, stove, microwave AND dishwasher
🔪 Tons of counter space, perfect for cooking by yourself or with your roomies
🍽️ Lots of cabinet space for storing kitchenware
Living room
🛋️ A cozy couch and an armchair for chilling, movie watching and hangs
☕ A coffee table with plenty of room for board games or late night study sessions
📺 A Smart TV
🍺 A dining area with a table and four chairs for communal meals, studying, or just hanging out…
BUILDING AMENITIES
🧺 Laundry rooms – coin operated ($)
🚗 Parking available ($)
🛋️ Lounge space
🚴 Outdoor bike racks
🔌ALL major utilities included (heat/hydro/power)
***Disclaimer: Features may differ from how they appear on our website.
Conveniently located in South End Halifax, this fully furnished four bedroom, two bathroom unit is the perfect spot for bright minded students like yourself.
Just minutes from both Dal and King’s College, this custom-designed unit comes furnished with a couch, chairs, side table, coffee table, and TV. Each bedroom offers the perfect space for when you need time to unwind and recharge, with a comfy double bed, a fully-equipped study nook, and tons of storage and shelving.
We could definitely see you hanging with your roomies on the cozy living room couch, or having a productive solo study sesh in your bedroom’s study nook to prep for exams. Either way, get your hands on this unit before someone else does!
THE DETAILS
Each bedroom
🛏️ A double bed with enough room to store your luggage underneath
🪑 A study nook fully equipped with a desk, chair, and wall shelves
👚 A large closet for clothing, shoes and other storage
🎒 Hooks for bags and any stuff you need to grab and go!
Bathroom
🛀 Two bathroom, both with a shower
🌟 A large mirror so you can get ready in style
🧻 Extra storage for bathroom items, ‘cos nobody wants to run outta TP…
Kitchen
💎 Fully equipped with stainless steel appliances, including a fridge, stove, microwave AND dishwasher
🔪 Tons of counter space, perfect for cooking by yourself or with your roomies
🍽️ Lots of cabinet space for storing kitchenware
Living room
🛋️ A cozy couch and an armchair for chilling, movie watching and hangs
☕ A coffee table with plenty of room for board games or late night study sessions
📺 A Smart TV
🍺 A dining area with a table and four chairs for communal meals, studying, or just hanging out…
BUILDING AMENITIES
🧺 Laundry rooms – coin operated ($)
🚗 Parking available ($)
🛋️ Lounge space
🚴 Outdoor bike racks
🔌ALL major utilities included (heat/hydro/power)
***Disclaimer: Features may differ from how they appear on our website.
This 3-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartment is the dream spot for you and two friends: located just a stones throw away from Dalhousie University’s Studly Campus & King’s College, this fully-furnished, and custom-designed unit is the perfect spot to accommodate university student’s specific needs.
The common area is bright and spacious, and comes furnished with a cozy couch, chairs, side table, coffee table, and TV, making it the ideal space for solo reading time or late night hangouts. It also comes with a dining table and chairs, great for study sessions and dinner with the roomies 👯!
Each bedroom is super cozy and perfect for when you need time to unwind and recharge, with a comfy double bed, a fully-equipped study nook, and tons of storage and shelving.
Indulge in some late-night ramen or gourmet home-cooked meals in your incredible kitchen, featuring counter space for days and stocked with a fridge, stove and microwave.
Come make the most of your uni experience in this dreamy apartment ✨
THE DETAILS
Each bedroom
🛏️ A double bed with enough room to store your luggage underneath
🪑 A study nook fully equipped with a desk, chair, and wall shelves
👚 A large closet for clothing, shoes and other storage
🎒 Hooks for bags and any stuff you need to grab and go!
Bathroom
🛀 One bathroom, with a shower
🌟 A large mirror so you can get ready in style
🧻 Extra storage for bathroom items, ‘cos nobody wants to run outta TP…
Kitchen
💎 Fully equipped with stainless steel appliances, including a fridge, stove, and microwave
🔪 Tons of counter space, perfect for cooking by yourself or with your roomies
🍽️ Lots of cabinet space for storing kitchenware
Living room
🛋️ A cozy couch and an armchair for chilling, movie watching and hangs
☕ A coffee table with plenty of room for board games or late night study sessions
📺 A Smart TV
🍺 A dining area with a table and four chairs for communal meals, studying, or just hanging out…
BUILDING AMENITIES
🧺 Laundry rooms – coin operated ($)
🚗 Parking available ($)
🛋️ Lounge space
🚴 Outdoor bike racks
🔌ALL major utilities included (heat/hydro/power)
NOW LEASING May 1, 2023
THE COMMODORE houses up to 100 students and help them make the most of their time at university and in Halifax. It offers students fully-furnished spaces that are specifically designed for university living. Our goal is to allow students to make the most of their experience at school, and to provide them the housing, tools, and resources to foster exploration, growth, and quality of life.
OUR UNITS
Each fully furnished unit comes complete with cozy and trendy furniture, a kitchen fully equipped with appliances, TV, artwork, and built in custom shelving.
Sustainable Living
Our decision to fully-furnish our units reflects our stance on sustainable living; by providing high-quality furniture, we all avoid an accumulation of pressed board pieces on the curb at the end of the lease term as students move out and move on. We hate seeing old furniture end up in landfills, so we do our best to reduce waste through our sustainability initiatives. This way the furniture is designed alongside the spaces themselves in harmony.
OUR COLLABORATIONS
We care deeply about integrating THE COMMODORE into the local community in a way that aligns with and honours residents past, present and future.
This can be seen through our collaboration with and support of local professionals whose work we admire; we do this through our artistic partnerships, interior design roll outs, branding, and architecture.
AMENITIES
🧺 Laundry onsite – coin operated ($)
🪑 Fully Furnished
📓 Study nook in every bedroom
🍳 Stainless steel kitchen appliances (dishwasher incl. in 4 & 5 bedroom units)
🧻 Lots of extra storage
🔌ALL major utilities included (heat/hydro/power)
🚴 Outdoor bike racks
🚗 Parking Available ($)
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We respectfully acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki (MEEG-MA-GEE), the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people. We strive to contribute to the truth and reconciliation process through a collaboration with Indigenous artists and businesses.
As organizers worked within provincial COVID-19 guidelines to keep things safe, there was lots of joy and excitement among first year students on Dalhousie’s campus at this year’s O-Week and Welcome Week events.
After the pandemic forced Dalhousie students to move to online learning for the Fall term in 2020, O-Week (the highly anticipated introduction to university life) was also forced to go virtual that year (Ramesar).
Whether home is a plane ride away, or a stone’s throw from Halifax, 2021 first-year students were understandably eager to get on campus, experience human connection once again and welcome a brand new chapter with a world of possibilities… University Apartments was equally keen to meet with students face-to-face again, especially after we’ve all had such a long hiatus from in-person events!
We set up camp as sponsors at O-Week to welcome first year students to Dal and introduce ourselves. As a data-driven team, we conducted hundreds of surveys in order to gain a better understanding of our students’ needs and wishes, allowing us to incorporate them into our projects. The personal interactions we have with students inform our work, there is nothing we value more than being able to listen to and learn from students directly.
Move-In & Registration
At O-Week registration, we had the opportunity to welcome tons of students to their first day on campus. While many are living in residence this year, they know it’s never too early to start the hunt for an off-campus apartment. It’s clear from our conversations with them that in their search for a home after res, students are becoming increasingly concerned about the hectic and unstable rental market in our city.
That’s where we come in. Between move-in and registration, students stopped by to chat with us about SEE-MORE, our beautiful new student community building on Seymour Street near Studley Quad, which will be ready for them to move into as of September 1, 2022.
Carnival Day
The fun continued the next day after students had the chance to settle into their dorms and explore campus. The Studley Quad looked a bit different, having been totally transformed into a full-blown carnival complete with music, games, delicious food, and lots of exciting activities for all.
We had our share of fun, too, practicing our aim with a bow-and-arrow, shooting soccer balls at a giant inflatable target, and getting cotton candy and snow cone-induced sugar rushes. We gave away Starbucks gift cards to those who completed our survey about their housing needs. Hopefully that helped out a bit with all the inevitable post-O-week hangovers! 😉
Movie Night
After a great day at the carnival, students brought their blankets and snuggled up for Movie Night in the McInnes room in the SUB. And what is movie night without a lil’ pre-film bingo, right?!
We hosted an INTENSE few games of Surviving Dal bingo, which naturally didn’t have your standard bingo game calls… Climbed the wave on the Halifax waterfront? Ditched a zoom class? Mistook the Killam Lib for a jail? Yup, bingo will never be the same again! We smiled, we laughed, we gave away some great prizes to our bingo winners, and, most importantly, we connected with many, many students.
Dalhousie O-Week 2021 brought us out of our year-long Zoom fatigue and the relief was felt all over campus, we got even closer to our Tiger family 🐯 We learned so much about the struggles students are facing when it comes to off-campus housing and how our project will benefit the community. The need for affordable student housing has become even more apparent and pressing. Students deserve to feel safe and have easy access to campus in order to make the most of their university experience.
All Eyes On Us
Dalhousie University has reduced their residence capacity to 80% due to the pandemic, and students are scrambling to find a place to live while battling Halifax’s affordable housing crisis (Willick). In 2021 Halifax saw the rental vacancy rate increase to 1.9% from last year’s record low of 1%. However, rental rates have increased by 4.1%, and the university is not offering much support to students (Woodford).
We spoke with so many students who told us that they are still living at home or commuting over an hour to and from campus because they can’t find or afford suitable housing close to campus. COVID-19 has had a far-reaching impact on young people heading out into the world and exploring their independence, and we were moved by how many obstacles students have had to face while beginning their journey into adulthood.
With all these challenges, everyone from CTV, to the dean of Dal, to the students themselves were interested in learning more about SEE-MORE, our new purpose-built student apartment building featuring fully-furnished, beautifully designed units, launching on September 1, 2022 right on Seymour Street. We hope to help the community rally with more options for students as they establish themselves in what continues to be a difficult time for everyone.
Big thank you to Dalhousie University and Dalhousie Student Union for hosting. You can head to our full Dal O-Week 2021 gallery on Facebook for more photos!
References:
Ramesar, Vernon. “Orientation weeks get closer to normal at Halifax universities.” CBC News Nova Scotia, 5 September 2021, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/orientation-week-halifax-universities-covid-1.6165771.
Spurr, Bill. “Student-oriented apartments going up on Halifax’s Seymour Street.” Saltwire, 28 May 2021, https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/business/roger-taylor-student-oriented-apartments-going-up-on-halifaxs-seymour-street-100593696/.
Willick, Frances. “Dal students scrambling for housing after university limits residence spaces.” CBC News Nova Scotia, 22 June 2021, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dalhousie-university-residence-covid-19-1.6073775.
Woodford, Zane. “Apartment vacancy rate moves up to 1.9% in Halifax, but average rents are up too Apartment vacancy rate moves up to 1.9% in Halifax, but average rents are up too.” Halifax Examiner, 28 January 2021, https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/province-house/apartment-vacancy-rate-moves-up-to-1-9-in-halifax-but-average-rents-are-up-too/.
