Hotel Tower Converted to Student Housing in San Jose

Exterior of Spartan Village on the Paseo; image courtesy of SJSU NewsCenter

San Jose State University (SJSU) in California converted a 13-story tower that formerly housed the Signia by Hilton Hotel into student housing, ABC 7 reports. SJSU formally opened Spartan Village on the Paseo on August 15, with university President Cynthia Teniente-Matson describing it as “unlike anything SJSU has ever built” with the speed and scope of the project “unprecedented.” The tower, prior to Hilton the historic Fairmont hotel, was converted into housing for 700 undergraduate students within four months. Although desks and beds are new, vestiges of the property’s former life as a hotel — including blackout curtains, couches and marble bathrooms — remain. Students are pleased with the upscale, spacious accommodations in what represents “the region’s largest post-pandemic conversion from a commercial space to a residential (property).”

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