Hampton Place

UBC's First Neighbourhood

Hampton Place, UBC’s first neighbourhood, marks a shift that happened in the 1980s towards creating a full-fledged town on campus. This vision came into being with Robert H. Lee, who believed that UBC should take an active role in developing a portion of its 1,000 acres of land for residential development and establish long-term endowment wealth. With the approval of the UBC Board of Governors, UBC Properties Trust was formed and the land on which Hampton Place sits was designated to become a residential neighbourhood.

Hampton Place was established before UBC’s Land Use Plan (formerly the Official Community Plan (OCP)) and as such, does not have a Neighbourhood Plan.

Hampton Place, which consists of 100% market-leasehold housing, raised $81 million in net gain for the university. Due to its success, the UBC Board of Governors decided in 1994 that an additional 200 acres of campus land be transformed into neighbourhoods with a mix of housing, parks, shops and amenities. Areas designated as neighbourhood land are outlined in UBC’s Land Use Plan.