Kitchen
Full-size fridge, oven, microwave and a dishwasher, shared by the four bedrooms. A different kitchen from the one at Garneau Towers — same appliances, different room.
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8515 112 St NW · Garneau
University Tower
On 112 Street, which is the campus boundary. The only rooms on this site with a private balcony are here.
A tall, balconied tower directly across the street from campus. Every floor carries a run of balconies, and the Flex Balcony rooms open onto one through a full-height sliding door — the only private outdoor space we let in either building.
This is the building to pick if you want the shortest possible walk to a lecture, to the hospital, or to the LRT. It has no fitness centre, and the one at Garneau Towers is not yours to use from here — the two buildings are run separately and a room in one gives you nothing in the other. If the gym matters, take a room a hundred metres east instead.
Shared · in the rent
Balconies
Continuous balconies on every floor, and the Flex Balcony rooms open straight onto one. It is the only private outdoor space on this site, and it is worth the fifteen dollars a fortnight in May.
Shared · in the rent
Laundry on site
Front-loading washers and dryers with a sink, in the building. Bright room, big windows, and never a walk outside with a basket.
Shared · in the rent
Across from campus
112 Street is the campus boundary and this building is on it. The hospital is four minutes, the Education building five, University station seven.
Inside the suite
Four bedrooms share this
Bathroom
One bathroom with a tub and shower, shared by the four bedrooms. No room in either building has a private bathroom.
Laundry
In the building rather than in the suite, which is the usual arrangement in a tower this size and the reason nobody queues for a machine at eight on a Sunday.
4 room types here
Rooms at University Tower
Deluxe
The best room across the street from campus, and the most expensive room on this site.
$880/ 4 weeks$220 a week · all inclusiveSee the room
Flex Balcony
The only rooms on this site with their own outdoor space. There are five of them.
$820/ 4 weeks$205 a week · all inclusiveSee the room
Flex Plus
The middle room across from campus. Everything the Flex Balcony has except the balcony.
$800/ 4 weeks$200 a week · all inclusiveSee the room
Flex Basic
The cheapest way to live across the street from campus. There are three.
$700/ 4 weeks$175 a week · all inclusiveSee the room
On foot, from this door
In minutes
Measured along the street grid from this building, at eighty metres a minute, rounded up.
- 4minUniversity of Alberta HospitalNursing, medicine, pharmacy and rehab placements
- 4minH MartGroceries, and the closest of them
- 5minEducation building and Coutts LibraryCampus is across the street
- 7minUniversity LRT stationCapital Line
- 7minHealth Sciences/Jubilee LRT stationCapital Line, and the Jubilee Auditorium
- 8minRutherford Library
- 9minGarneau Park
- 9minWhyte AvenueOld Strathcona — bars, records, the Fringe in August
- 10minSafeway
- 11minCameron LibraryScience and engineering
- 12minMain QuadThe middle of campus
Photographs
University Tower, inside and out
See it yourself
Twenty minutes, no fee, and you can walk to campus afterwards to check the timing.