JPI Campus Quarters.

The University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) and Dallas-based JPI, a student housing and luxury apartment company, have joined forces on a $50 million student living project that will provide new apartment and suite-style on-campus student housing and renovate some existing housing in two phases.

Initial plans call for JPI Campus Quarters to renovate Ouachita and Masur halls on the ULM campus and to demolish six student housing buildings constructed in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for new Art Deco buildings. Demolition is expected to begin in May 2004 for the apartment portion of the project, which is planned to be ready for students to occupy in the fall of 2005. The suite-style student living project will follow with occupancy planned for the fall of 2006. JPI Campus Quarters will also provide comprehensive management services on an ongoing basis for ULM's entire on-campus housing program, which totals 1,700 beds.

ULM also has plans to renovate the Student Union Building and the Wig Wam, adding yet another element of change to the look of the campus. ULM is asking the Student Government Association to get involved in the remodeling process by surveying fellow students about what types of food they want in the new Student Union Building.