American Campus Communities history

Late 1996 also saw ACLC win a contract to manage student housing at the new Texas A&M International University in Laredo.

In the summer of 1997 the firm sold a 76 percent ownership stake for $15 million to Reckson Opportunity Partners, L.P., an affiliate of Reckson Associates Realty Corp.

In 1998 ACC won contracts worth $52.5 million to build three new housing projects at Texas A&M, Iona College, and Prairie View, and began construction of an $18 million, 620-bed apartment complex at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

In the spring of 1999 the firm acquired a 444-bed complex at Arizona State University in Tempe, and in the summer it added townhouses and apartments at the University of Georgia in Athens, which could accommodate more than 1,100.

In July 2000 an apartment complex called The Village at Alafaya Club, in Orlando, Florida, was acquired.

In 2001 ACC bought a 288-unit facility in Blacksburg, Virginia, for $25.7 million, as well as a 732-bed one in Orlando, Florida.

For 2002 the firm recorded revenues of $55 million and a loss of $2.1 million.

ACC was also building a housing complex near the University of Colorado in Boulder, which would open in the fall of 2003 with 495 beds and add 499 more a year later.

Sechler, Bob, "American Campus CEO Sees Growth Opportunity, 4Q on Track," Dow Jones News Service, February 25, 2005.

ACC would subsequently manage the facility, which was slated to open in the fall of 2006.

In January 2007 construction began on a $138 million, 1,866-bed complex at Arizona State University, which was the first part of a three-phase project that would eventually encompass 5,100 beds and a student center, classrooms, faculty offices, and a dining hall.

Slated to open in the fall of 2008, it was the most ambitious partnership between a college and ACC to date.

In 2013, ACC entered the Ivy League with Princeton's Merwick Stanworth faculty and staff housing community was its first project at an Ivy League university.

In 2016, ACC broke ground on its 100th development, U Club Sunnyside at WVU, CEO Bill Bayless’ alma mater.

In 2017, ASU opened the Tooker House, the largest engineering residential college.

In 2018, ACC began construction on an approximately $615 million residential community for participants of the Disney College program, now known as Disney Internships & Programs, through an American Campus Equity translation.

In 2020, ACC collaborated with RB, the makers of Lysol, to set a formalized approach to cleanliness and disinfection at its student housing communities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.