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Shop (previously in Reid Hall), Refrigeration Shop (previously in Rawlings Hall),
and Steam Shop (previously in Hume Hall), respectively. Bay 5 was set aside
for storage of large maintenance materials like air conditioners, refrigerators,
stoves, doors, fan coils, etc. Bays 6 and 7 were used by East Hall Supply Property/
Records to store spare furniture. In 2001, a 15,050 square foot warehouse was
added to the Surge Area to first store furniture for New Hume (2002) and then
to house East Hall Supply Property/Records operations.
To d ay
Cypress Hall, a 255-bed residence hall, opened Fall 2015 in the Yulee Area. This
facility addressed the increased demand for campus housing as well as provided
housing facilities focused on supporting students with higher levels of physical
disabilities. Today, HRE provides housing for approximately 8,100 students in
single student undergraduate housing including 308 undergraduate spaces
available at Infinity Hall, a public private partnership with Signet Enterprises that
also opened Fall 2015 in the UF Innovation Square area. Approximately, 1,200
students, spouses, and children are housed in 972 graduate and family housing
apartments. Additionally, HRE has an affiliation with The Continuum to provide
another 571 spaces for UF graduate and professional students. Approximately
350 full-time staff and 430 part-time student staff and OPS staff are employed
by HRE. HRE is an auxiliary operation. An auxiliary receives no state tax dollars
or tuition/fee monies to fund operations and must generate income and manage
a budget. HRE generates income by charging rent. The 2015 HRE budget was
$56.5 million. Maintaining and renovating facilities built between 1905 and 2015
for the needs of today’s college students is challenging. On average, between $6
– 10 million annually of the budget is dedicated to general maintenance, special
projects, and capital projects.
Leadership
Officer-In-charge 1906 - 1927
The Officer-in-Charge was a live-in faculty member.
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