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HYATTSVILLE, MD-Local undergraduate and graduate students will have a new housing option come the 2006-2007 school year now that construction of the Towers at University Town Center has just topped out at the 50-acre, two-million-sf University Town Center expansion.

Developer University Town Center will spend $40 million to complete the Towers and an additional $35 million to construct the 1,150-space parking facility that will serve as part of the building's foundation. The upscale student residence will offer 910 beds, for rent individually with their own bathrooms, contained within different suite configurations spread out among 16 floors.

With a location just across from the Prince George's Plaza Metro station, the Towers will offer views of the nearby University of Maryland at College Park Campus and Washington, DC not only for students of UMCP, but also for those enrolled at Catholic University, Trinity University and Howard University in Washington, DC; the District is about 25 minutes away by car and just a few minutes away by Metro. "UMCP doesn't have much more space for housing, so it will benefit indirectly from the project, and the students will benefit directly," UTC president Herschel Blumberg tells Globest.com. Amenities at the RTKL-designed building include an exercise facility, swimming pool, activity room and computer lab. JPI has been tapped to manage the property.