University shares plans for new Homewood residence hall, dining facility in advance of meeting with city planning board

Johns Hopkins University today shared plans for a new Homewood campus residence hall and dining facility in advance of an upcoming meeting of the Baltimore Urban Design and Architecture Advisory Panel (UDAAP).

The facility will replace Alumni Memorial Residence I (AMR I), built in 1923. Together with the soon-to-be-completed Hopkins Student Center, Brody Learning Commons, and the renovated Milton S. Eisenhower Library, the new building—to be located along North Charles Street on the east side of the Freshman Quad—will be part of a new core of campus life encircling The Beach.

The university is currently gathering input on the proposed project from students, faculty, and staff as well as the greater Charles Village community.

Construction activity, beginning with the removal of AMR I, is expected to start in the summer of 2026, and the project is anticipated to be completed by the end of 2028. Other residence halls will be available to accommodate students while the new building is being constructed.