JV Plans Mixed-Use Student Housing Project in College Park
The development a community center with a library and history archive.
A joint venture between LV Collective and Harrison Street announced development plans for Rambler College Park, a mixed-use student community located in College Park, Md. The property, located roughly a mile away from the University of Maryland, will also feature retail space and a community center, and is scheduled for delivery in fall 2027.
The residential component of Rambler College Park will feature 1,003 beds across 288 units, spread over 340,000 square feet of space. The community will also have a coffee shop on the ground level, a co-working mezzanine on the second floor, an outdoor terrace, a hot tub with a Jumbotron, as well as a fitness center, yoga studio and cold plunge pool.
Project partners will include WDG Architecture, John Moriarty & Associates as the general contractor and Variant Collaborative, which designed the interior spaces.
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This project is the latest addition to LV Collective’s Rambler line of student housing communities. In November, the developer announced plans for Rambler Levee District, a 583-unit community located in West Lafayette, Ind.
Giving back to the community
With 13,715 square feet of retail space, Rambler College Park will feature businesses that were previously housed at Campus Village Shoppes, the commercial building at 8147 Baltimore Ave. that Rambler College Park is replacing. At least one of those businesses had operated at the site since 1949.
The new development is the culmination of a close collaboration between LV Collective, the Lakeland Civic Association and the Lakeland Community Heritage Project. The trio also plans to build and program a new community center, which will include a library and archive intended to preserve and share the history of Lakeland, a once-thriving Black community in College Park that was nearly obliterated during the urban renewal efforts of the 1960s and 1970s. Additionally, the center will feature flex-space that can be used for presentations, art galleries, gatherings and other College Park functions.
