If you want to spend time on North Campus, you'll soon have a new housing option. Construction on a new apartment complex marketed toward students began last week.

The complex, developed by the Education Realty Trust and called The Courtyards, will consist of three five-story buildings near the intersection of Plymouth Road and Broadway Road, across from Bursley Residence Hall.

Each bedroom in the new complex, which is being billed as a private dorm for students, will have its own bathroom but will share a common area and kitchen.

The complex will have 896 individual bedrooms, which will be leased in units ranging from one bedroom and bathroom to four bedrooms and bathrooms. It is slated to open by the fall of 2008 and will include amenities like a washer and dryer in each apartment, a cyber caf