# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNGPjljOg4l
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33528419-chapelboronews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-08T14:34:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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As UNC is working to adjust its admissions approach to expand undergraduate student enrollment, it also is planning on revamping its on-campus housing to accommodate more people. The first step was already approved in May, as the university will build its first new dorm on campus in nearly a decade along Country Club Road.

The following phases of the housing renewal project recently took a key step forward during the Board of Trustees’ meeting in July. The group approved $8 million in advanced spending authority for its housing and planning departments to search for a designer of another new dorm. Unlike Residence Hall 1, which will replace the old admissions building of Jackson Hall, this new building would replace two existing mid-campus dorms: Parker and Teague.

Both residence halls opened in 1958, and despite the bedrooms being remodeled in 2013, the buildings have never had comprehensive renovations to add central air ventilation or elevators. Carolina Housing and the university’s 2019 master plan, which was revised in January, identifies the dorms as primed for replacement – with previous versions also targeting them as facilities that could provide more opportunities for building differently along Stadium Drive.

In an interview with Chapelboro, Carolina Housing Executive Director Allan Blattner pointed to Parker and Teague’s surroundings as reason to think about building up. The neighboring six-story Carmichael Residence Hall features far more bedrooms, while Kenan Stadium across the street and the football program’s practice facility means a taller dorm in that footprint might make sense.

“Part of the reason they were selected for tear-down and rebuild is we think we can densify that site quite a bit more,” Blattner said, adding that a massing study in the design phase will help determine how tall to go. “Especially at a time when enrollment growth is projected for the campus, we want to make sure we’re housing as many students on campus as we can.”

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