Parsippany-based Hollister Construction Services joined RBH Group, Rutgers University-Newark and students, Perkins Eastman Architects and McNamara-Salvia Structural Engineers on Feb. 5 to celebrate the topping out of Rutgers’ new facility, The Honors Living-Learning Community.

Hollister was retained by RBH Group as construction manager to lead execution of the five-story, 154,000-square-foot, mixed-use development project.

The Honors Living-Learning Community will provide 391 beds for students at Rutgers’ Newark campus, including double occupancy rooms, studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments. It will also include classroom and academic support spaces and 25,000 square feet of ground floor retail space.

The project features a five-story, 74,000-square-foot precast concrete parking garage with 330 parking spaces, and an 11,000-square-foot exterior plaza which will serve as a gathering place for Rutgers-Newark and the community, Hollister said.

New landscaping and streetscape improvements will be performed to create an exemplary design for a new educational community in Newark.