Another off-campus student housing development is underway on N. Eagleville Road, directly adjacent to the University of Connecticut Storrs campus.
The construction of housing totaling approximately 1,350 beds on two parcels of private land was approved by The Town of Mansfield Planning and Zoning Commission. The north side of the development (Site B) of N. Eagleville Road will begin later this year, and the south half (Site A) will be constructed in a future year, according to Jennifer Kaufman, director of Mansfield Planning and Development.
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Landmark Properties, the owners of the Standard at Four Corners, which opened in Storrs this fall, purchased Site B in March 2025, which will be called The Mark Mansfield. The Mark, located at 134 N. Eagleville Road, will include fully furnished residences with 738 beds and approximately 7,000 square feet of retail space, according to a March press release by Landmark Properties. The site is the former location of Huskies Tavern, which relocated to Downtown Storrs.
Site A is called The Hub and is located across the street on King Hill and N. Eagleville Roads. While it has not been bought by Landmark, Kaufman said that from her understanding, they are looking to purchase that parcel of land as well.
The UConn board of trustees approved easement agreements to facilitate development of the apartments, as the private land is bound by university property. The board of trustees approved Site A easements at a Sept. 17 meeting, totaling $600,000 for the easements and annual payment of $25,000. The board approved a similar cooperation for the Site B development in December 2024.
UConn will coordinate a bus service to stop close to the development and will provide overflow parking for the new development to be charged at university rates, according to the cooperation agreement.
“We’ve long wanted this site to be redeveloped, and we want students to be living on the edge of campus,” Kaufman said. “We want them to have convenient access to their jobs on campus and to their classes.”
Kaufman said the development will have a private shuttle for residents that will likely be offered by WRTD or the UConn shuttle due to a parking space reduction.
These new housing developments follow changes to UConn’s on-campus housing policies last winter, which now only guarantees housing to first-year students, according to previous reporting by The Daily Campus.
In addition to the student housing need, Kaufman said there is a need for affordable family housing, and they are working with other developers who specialize in that market too. Both The Mark and The Hub will not offer affordable housing units on site but will contribute over $3.2 million toward Mansfield’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
When the sites were approved, Kaufman said zoning regulations required that developers either put 15% of affordable housing units on site or pay a fee that goes into the trust fund. While the money in the fund has not been used yet, the town is working with the Mansfield Housing Authority to use it as gap financing to fund affordable housing units.
“We have a declining K through 12 population, and we would like to see families move to Mansfield,” Kaufman said. “That’s the focus right now of the Planning and Zoning Commission and the town but of course, we understand that we are home to UConn, and we want to make sure that UConn is successful, and that students have a safe, healthy, high-quality place to live in.”
More information and updates on Mansfield’s development activity can be found here. The construction of both developments is planned to be completed by 2028.