The new residential community at Tufts will provide apartment-style housing, priced affordably for students attending Tufts University. The residence hall provides 660 beds of housing and includes 3,000 SF of ground floor retail space. To fulfill both the City of Medford and the University’s sustainability requirements, the buildings will be all-electric, utilizing no on-site fossil fuels, and the building envelopes are designed to be air-tight, meeting Passive House requirements, which will result in less noise, more efficient energy usage, and better indoor air quality for the students.