Tulane University is planning a new student housing complex across South Claiborne Avenue from its Uptown campus, a project that will include demolishing Ted’s Frostop, the local diner that has operated on the site since 1955.
In an announcement to its staff Monday, Tulane officials said the complex will house some 160 students in 39 apartments. It will also include a ground-floor parking garage and space for neighborhood shops.
Frostop will be the anchor tenant housed in the new building. Its neon sign and giant root beer mug will be preserved and displayed on the front of the new building, Tulane said.
The move is the latest by Tulane to add to its housing options, part of a long-term goal to bring more students on-campus and out of nearby neighborhoods. Last summer, it completed a new $200 million residential complex, The Village, with hundreds of new dorm rooms, designed to accommodate the freshman, sophomores and juniors now required to live on campus…