St. Edward’s Continued Growth and Neighborhood Impact

“We’re a popular school now,” said university architect Kit Johnson, recently hired to help the university design its new campus master plan. “Word’s gotten out.”

Known colloquially as “the Hilltop,” the four-year private university borders South Congress Avenue and I-35 about 2 miles south of Lady Bird Lake in an otherwise fairly residential area appropriately named South River City.

The university campus is changing to keep up with the growth—school enrollment has gone from nearly 200 students in the early 1900s during the school’s early days to 3,747 undergraduates today—by building new campus housing, renovating existing buildings and constructing a new operations building less than 100 feet from neighboring Sherwood Oaks residents. Click here to read the entire article posted in Community Impact Newspaper.