by KYW's Lynne Adkins

Some students at West Chester University will soon have new digs to call home.

Crews are busy on the West Chester University campus in Chester County, tearing down five 40-year-old dormitory buildings and constructing six new dorms.

Richard Przywara, executive director of the West Chester University Foundation and university student housing, says the $300-million project will be done in three phases:

"The whole project is set to be finished around 2012, 2013."

Phase one will be ready for students to occupy in September of next year.

And when complete, Przywara says, the dorms will be spectacular:

"You'll have a semi-private bathroom, there will be carpet, there will be new infrastructure for power usage and telecommunications."

He says they are also spending millions to make the project "green," using a geothermal heating system.