IHL Board approves public private partnership for new Ole Miss student housing

The new facility will house more than 1,200 students and is expected to be completed by summer 2027.

A new student residential faculty will be built on the campus of the University of Mississippi that will be managed and operated in partnership with Ole Miss and an outside company as part of a public private partnership project.

The project received the approval of the Board of Trustees for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning during a special called meeting held Wednesday afternoon.

When complete, the facility will provide an additional 1,250 beds for student housing at the Kincannon Hall site on the Oxford campus. Demolition of that site began roughly two years ago. Prior to its demolition, Kincannon Hall sat vacant for about 8 years.

The contract includes a ground lease b