Tech students will move into the rooms once occupied by Olympic athletes and Georgia State students.

Residence halls built to house Olympic athletes during the 1996 Summer Games are now the property of Georgia Tech.

Since the fall of 1996, the residence halls at the corner of North Avenue and Centennial Olympic Park Drive have been the property of Georgia State, which has since developed more on-campus housing options in downtown Atlanta.

University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. announced the transfer of the property in March. Georgia Tech students will move in this fall.

"Acquiring the Georgia State Olympic residence halls will help us meet the housing demands of a growing student body at Georgia Tech and allow us new options as to how we use the land on our campus," President Wayne Clough said.

The four residence halls, initially constructed at a cost of $79.6 million, currently can house 2,000 students in three- to six-bed apartments.