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• (PHOTOS) GOLDEN SHOVEL TIME: Cal Poly Humboldt Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony for $200 Million Student Housing Project on Old Craftsman Mall Site
• Cal Poly to Break Ground on Craftsman Mall Project Next Month, University Announces; Housing Facility Will Have Room for Almost a Thousand Students

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Half of Cal Poly Humboldt’s brand spankin’ new $226 million Hinarr Hu Moulik housing project is set to be open for residents this fall semester. 

Located on Spear Avenue, the entire 12.8 acre complex can house up to 964 students, but only the east building (with a capacity of over 600) will be open this fall. Work on the other wing should be done sometime during the fall and will open for residents starting spring of 2026. There are 241 total housing units in the complex, all of them either two-,  three- or four-bedroom apartments. The parking lot will have over 300 parking spaces. 

It’ll mostly be filled with third- and fourth-year students, to give newer students a chance to make some friends before they get moved. 

Vice President of Administration and Finance Mike Fisher did not know how full the east wing will be when it opens. 

Because it’s about a mile from campus, CPH will offer a shuttle service every half hour to campus, to a yet-to-be constructed 8-acre parking lot on Foster Avenue, and to the Plaza. The Humboldt Transit Authority will also include a stop there on the Green and Gold route, and the Annie and Mary trail will go right past the dorms when it’s finished. 

According to Fisher, CPH also gave the city of Arcata $17 million to help fund the Sunset Avenue project, which will replace the usually clogged and complicated stop signs on and off Highway 101 with roundabouts. Work on that will start in 2026.

Funded by the $458 million polytechnic grant, work on the Hinarr Hu Moulik (Soulatluk for “Our Home”, pronounced hee-Nad huh MOO-leek) dorms started back in 2023. 

It won’t be short on amenities; the outside spaces will have pickleball, cornhole, and ping-pong courts, there’s a bike storage locker on-campus with space for over 200 bicycles, and there will be a grab-and-go hot food dining facility, plus a gym and various community lounges and TV rooms. The green spaces will be expansive and cover most of the property. 

Vehicle traffic from Highway 101 made the outside loud, but Fisher said that the walls, almost a foot thick, will deaden the noise significantly.

Fisher admitted it didn’t look like too much right now, but said it would soon be somewhere really worth living.

“It may be hard to imagine now what this will look like soon,” Fisher said. “It just takes a little bit of vision.”