Holly Pointe Commons Description

Overview: 

• Type: Residence Hall
• Year Constructed: 2016
• Occupancy: Approximately 1415 Students
• Floors: 7 floors on the tower side and 4 floors in the curve
• Elevators: 4
• Air Conditioning: Yes
• Co-ed: Yes (Mixed gender rooms available)
• Who Lives Here: Predominately First-year students

Location on Campus:

Where am I located?

Hall Features & Amenities:

Holly Pointe Commons opened in Fall 2016 and includes 1,415 beds as well as dining venues including the Glassworks Dining Hall, BB Convenience Store, and a Starbucks. The building was designed keeping in mind the needs of first-year and some sophomore students.

• In Hall Staff: 3 Community Directors, 15 Community Assistants
• Housekeeping: Clean common hallways, Public Restrooms, and Lounges on a regular basis.
• Lounges on each floor and pod
• First Floor: Community Director Offices, Public Restrooms, ATM, Dining Hall
• Laundry Room: Located at the end of the central hallways on each floor
• Courtyard: Benches, Bike Racks
• WiFi (Wireless internet access available throughout the building)
• Parking: For the most current policies and information about residential parking on campus, please follow this link to Rowan Parking Services.
• Trash Removal: There are dumpsters located in the HPC Parking Lot. Students are responsible for bringing their trash bags to dumpster locations. Trash is hauled on a daily basis. Housekeeping staff removes trash from all common areas and public restrooms.
• Each resident’s Rowan ID card will give them access to the entrances of the building.
• The Rowan ID distributed to each resident also allows access to the student’s bedroom.

Pod Features & Amenities:  

The building is designed into pods. Every pod forms a community with a Community Assistant (CA). Pods include a mix of student bedrooms, lounge and study spaces, bathrooms, and laundry rooms. Holly Pointe features air conditioning throughout, spacious double rooms primarily with a limited number of single bedrooms, card access entry to the building and bedrooms, and WiFi and Digital cable TV. This building was designed to provide options for gender-inclusive housing in a residence hall environment where students may choose roommates without restrictions based on gender. It also houses numerous Living-Learning Communities (Honors, Engineering, LGBTQIA+, Business, Writing Arts) where students can live with those who share interests, passions, and academic goals.  

• Carpet: Yes
• Overhead Lighting: No- It is recommended for residents to bring a floor lamp and/or desk lamp. There is a wall switch that does control an outlet, which can be used for lighting.
• Wired for Rowan Network
• Wifi in room: Yes
• Windows with screens and blinds
• For descriptions and quantities of the standard furniture provided for each room type, please visit this link to a furniture description page. 

 Floor Plans:

• First Floor
• Second Floor
• Third Floor
• Fourth Floor
• Fifth Floor
• Sixth Floor
• Seventh Floor