As USC continues to advance its Specific Plan for development of the University Park community, it remains unclear how the university will change its relationship with the neighborhood. Redevelopment ...

The University of Southern California has long been criticized for being an inward-looking institution, one that insulates itself from the surrounding neighborhoods of South Los Angeles. Its new ...

The Village is the most ambitious of the building projects Nikias has overseen since taking up the USC presidency in 2010. The university describes it as “the biggest development in the history ...

USC on Monday is to unveil the final and somewhat altered design of the biggest construction project in the university’s history: a $650-million housing and retail complex just north of the main ...

This week, the Daily Trojan published its supplement issue, “It Takes a Village: USC and the Community,” in which we explored more carefully the issue of gentrification in the local community, the ...

At long last, the new Westwood Village USC Village has finally arrived. After three years of construction, the university is opening the new commercial and residential area to the public. Included ...

The Village at USC will include up to 350,000 square feet of retail offerings, new student housing and academic space, according to the university. The project is the largest in South L.A. history.

Bigger fraternity and sorority houses would allow for more students to live in the village, and might take some of the pressure off of USC’s growing need for student housing.In the fall of 2023 ...

USC's The Village project, which would replace the rundown University Village with dorms, retail, and a hotel, is gearing up for its city approvals process and things are getting contentious, natch.

The university plans to fill at least 30 percent of the jobs locally, with 10 percent going to members of disadvantaged groups. The new USC Village will include 350,000 square feet of retail ...

Whispers of excitement flooded the University of South Carolina’s conference rooms in 2015. Campus Village, four residential buildings replacing USC’s worn dorms on the south side of campus ...

Even more so when the university killed plans for a 950-space parking garage, opting for a much smaller “transportation hub” instead. Campus Village opened in 2023 to house some 1,800 students.