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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Summer is here, the students are gone and the campus is quiet. Well, almost quiet.

Building enhancements are taking place in many of the residence halls over the summer while most of the campus is vacant. Watson Hall experience construction work during the spring semester and continues into this summer with a new addition being added to the west side of the building. According to the University, the addition will include a new main entrance, elevator, and a Resident Director’s office. New restrooms and shower rooms for each floor and expanded lounges with kitchenettes on each floor will also be added during the renovations.

Kroeze Hall will be creating more open space with new bathrooms added in each section and existing shower rooms becoming lounge spaces. Kroeze’s laundry will all be relocated to a lower level and will have wireless notification when a residents’ laundry is complete. A new sprinkler system, windows and air conditioners will be added installed as well.

Other buildings experiencing upgrades include Seibold Hall, which will be getting a sprinkler system and air condition as well as updates to lounges on each floor. Prentice Hall will have air conditioning installed and the main lounge will get updated furniture. Wilson and Nierling Halls’ will also receive updated furniture.

An apartment was acquired by the University to add to the growing demand for upper class housing.