WaHu Student Apartments is located in the Stadium Village neighborhood of Minneapolis, built atop the site of a former blood plasma clinic that contributed to several construction delays for the complex.

[1] The project was first discussed in 2012, along with plans to relocate current businesses on the site, including a blood plasma donation center called CSL.

The plasma clinic initially explored relocating options as early as 2012, but the city of Minneapolis disapproved of a plan to rezone a lot across the street from its current location to allow for medical research.

On September 20, 2013, Finance & Commerce magazine confirmed that the company was able to lease a suitably-zoned space for medical research, allowing work on WaHu Student Apartments to start, beginning in December 2013.

[13] The first floor of the apartment complex contains 24,000 sq ft (2,200 m2) of leasable retail space, designated for restaurants, bars, and shops.

[7] Tenants include Blaze Pizza, Bank of America, Sprouts Salad Company, and the MuMu bubble teahouse, formerly called Bambu.