One Simmons
One Simmons is a strategic reimagining of our campus. This three-phased project enhances the student experience by creating gathering spaces, group study, new classrooms, and ultimately combining our two campuses into one.

The One Simmons Vision
The vision for One Simmons is a unified campus that supports our entire academic community, enhances the student experience, and modernizes the living and learning experience for all Simmons students. It is the culmination of a decade of thoughtful and creative planning.
The One Simmons Project
One Simmons is a three-phased strategic construction project that will ultimately combine our two campuses to enhance the student experience through the updating of our academic buildings, the modernization of our science facilities, and the construction of a new Living and Learning Center (LLC) on the main campus.
Phases 1 and 2
Status: Complete
We have opened state-of-the-art, modern library and health science facilities, achieved greater utilization of our academic spaces, created more student facing locations, eliminated significant deferred maintenance, and brought our academic buildings up to current safety and ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) code standards.
Phase 3
Status: Scheduled for completion fall of 2026
The final phase of the project, the creation of the Living and Learning Center, is scheduled to be complete in 2026. Plans to further enhance our outdoor spaces, the quad, the labyrinth, and other seating areas are in consideration for the centralized campus as well.

The Living and Learning Center
The Living and Learning Center (LLC) will be a vibrant epicenter for the entire Simmons community, providing modern living, athletic/wellness, study, and dining spaces for students and the opportunity for greater connection, wellness experiences, and events.
The Living and Learning Center will have
- approximately 1,100 student beds (more than the current Residence Campus)
- a variety of room configurations
- a 2-level dining facility
- a 3-level NCAA athletic, wellness and recreation center
- new spaces for campus resources
- a green roof-deck with plantings, seating areas, and places for both quiet contemplation, reading, yoga, and other events (things that have historically taken place in the residence campus quad)
- amazing views of Boston from the event space on the sixteenth floor
The Park Science Building will be demolished in the fall of 2023 and the LLC will break ground in early winter. Currently, the construction timeline allows us to move into the Living and Learning Center in the fall of 2026.
Artist Renderings of the New Space
Take a sneak peak at the plans for the look of the outside and a few of the the interior spaces within the new Living and Learning Center.
A living and learning community
The Living and Learning Center will bring together the best of the college experience: dining, wellness/fitness, gathering spaces, and attractive and safe residence spaces. The LLC will provide a variety of opportunities for wellness, events, community-building, and lasting connections in a space that is more conducive to the needs of today's students. It will offer the type of modern living, athletic, study, and dining spaces that students are seeking, and serve as a welcoming, inclusive, accessible and vibrant epicenter for all members of our Simmons community.
The Student Affairs team is planning for the move to the new building in the fall of 2026. They expect to duplicate the community feel of the current residence campus in the new space in a variety of ways, including
- theme floors
- community events within the building
- student community events in the dining facility
- and more

The new Lefavour Hall: a state-of-the-art science center and renovated library
The Park Science Center has been replaced by a carefully designed, fully modern science and library building that is now open. The design and project team took great care to ensure that the needs of faculty and students are not only met, but enhanced with this project. We are tremendously excited at what our students are already accomplishing in the new building.
Read about the opening of the new science centerChanges to the current residence campus
Simmons has entered into a 99-year ground lease agreement with development partner Skanska for the residence campus. The University continues to own the land.
Simmons chose Skanska because of the firm's expertise in green building and unique mix of global experience combined with a strong Boston-based team that has significant knowledge of this market. In addition, Skanska has developed a variety of programs and initiatives to further its commitment to women leadership, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Just as important, this project and the mission of Simmons is important to Skanska.
Following the 99-year ground lease term, the land and the development on top of it will revert to Simmons ownership. At that time, the University can decide how best to utilize that location. The development, built by Skanska, will be owned by the University at that time.