Ohio State's new dorms offer spaces for community experiences

The small city taking shape at Lane Avenue and High Street is about half built and full of life. Even as construction cranes frame the sky and power shovels demolish dormitories and dining halls from an earlier boom era, more than 3,100 Ohio State University students call the new North Residential District home. At least, university officials hope they think of it as home: Ohio taxpayers and OSU parents are spending $370 million to enable a college living experience that goes beyond a place to s