Housing & Residence Education
SW 13th Street & Museum Road
PO Box 112100
Gainesville, FL 32611-2100
Phone: (352) 392-2161
Tanglewood Apartments
Quick Facts
Office Ph# — (352)392-6114
Opened — 1968; 1971-72
Units:
1 bedrooms — 89
2 bedrooms — 81
2 bedroom townhouses — 30
efficiencies — 8
Location — See Map
AC — central
Tanglewood Apartments awaits dedication. In keeping with tradition, functional names are given to buildings until the time they are named.
Tanglewood Village was acquired by the University in 1973 at a cost of $2.675 million. Furniture was purchased for an additional $25,000. The facility was privately built and maintained prior to its acquisition.
In the late 1960s, the University was considering building another apartment unit for married students, and in 1969 the University requested and received $2.88 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.These funds were held in reserve to construct a 220-unit apartment facility. Spiraling construction costs and inflation threatened to curtail the project as originally planned, so when Tanglewood Manor, a 208-unit facility, became available for purchase the University negotiated with HUD to use the reserve monies towards acquiring Tanglewood Manor rather than building new. The planned acquisition of this facility led to the closing of Flavet Village III on June 30, 1974.
The 208 units were built in two phases: 100 units were completed in 1968, and 108 units were completed in 1971.
Facilities:
- Two-story masonry buildings
- 1-bedroom apartment square footage: 706
- 2-bedroom apartment square footage: 850
- Efficiency apartment square footage: 572
- Townhouse square footage: 992
- Commons building with manager’s office and game room
- Playgrounds
- 2 swimming pools