Nova Scotia Community College opens new 200-bed student residence in Dartmouth

The Nova Scotia Community College has officially opened the third of seven promised on-campus housing projects at its waterfront campus in Dartmouth.

The $58.6-million student residence will house 200 students beginning in September.

Community college president Don Bureaux says the project at the Ivany campus is on budget and on time and will help ease the stress of finding accommodations for some students.

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A year ago the college completed the first of the new residences, opening facilities at its Pictou campus in Stellarton and the Akerly campus in Dartmouth.

Those projects were announced along with the Ivany campus in November 2022 with a commitment of $112 million in funding from the provincial government.

In November 2023 four more projects were announced for the campuses in Springhill, Kentville, Bridgewater and at the Institute of Technology campus in Halifax, adding 270 more beds and bringing the total number of announced new housing spaces to 618.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 30, 2025.