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Originally Posted by AZTheta
University of Arizona:There is no available (for sale) space on First or Second Streets to build. Not that anyone could afford it if there was a lot. That's the major roadblock to expansion of the NPC sororities. Simply put: can't be competitive without a facility. There are some alternatives being explored and there's nothing to report yet.
Alpha Chi Omega is refurbishing their facility and the chapter can take possession in August 2014, from what I have been told. Alpha Chi's facility is a block and a half further east on First Street and while that doesn't negatively impact the fraternities that are also located close by, somehow it does seem to impact the sororities.
Not sure that any of the fraternities would be willing to sell, all things considered with property on the campus. And honestly, would probably want to demolish any fraternity and build from the ground up. That takes millions.
No idea what's going on at ASU with housing. First I heard of it was here on GC.
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I find it fascinating that 2 fraternities are currently building on First Street. Sigma Chi is really humming away on the north side of the street. I can not remember the frat building on the south side. I don't think there are any vacant frats on First or Second Street at this time but there are always rumors.
Alpha Chi will start remodeling their facility right after this semester. It should be good to go for recruitment- which they have changed and added another day to set 2. They should help out a lot but they still need to expand. There were 96 women in my daughter's PC in the fall. That is WAY to big to manage. I had heard that they were talking to some sororities about living off the grid so to speak but no one has bought off on that because they don't think they can compete.
ASU is in a housing predicament. The entire Greek community for that matter. The Chapters continue to grow. Total is now set at 173 and they are expecting a huge recruitment for F2014 1500-1800. In addition, there is really not a spot on campus large enough to hold our recruitment AND they do it during school. I think we need to make some major changes to the recruitment schedule and add those 2 houses waiting in the wings. It will be interesting to see what happens this year with recruitment and how big the numbers are but PC class of more then 70 are hard to manage and having no space to meet makes it challenging. Finding a room for chapter meetings is almost impossible. I could go on and on with the challenges of having a facility that only holds 32 women.