Manufactured home will offer temporary housing for PiKAs
By KRISTIN TAYLOR
Staff Writer
While Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity members are deciding whether to rebuild their fire-destroyed house, they will use a manufactured home as a meeting place.
Three Pi Kappa Alpha alumni requested the temporary structure in the multi-family residential zone at the Murray Planning Commission meeting Tuesday. The commission unanimously approved to allow the 65 fraternity members to use a trailer-type building for a year while they make decisions about reconstructing their house.
“We’ve looked at other meeting locations, but this seems like the only option,” Mike Pierce said on behalf of Pike alumni. “We’re going to move on this as quick as possible with school starting and kids coming back to town so they have a place to call home.”
The 27-year-old Pike lodge was destroyed in a June 5 fire. No one was living at the house at the time of the blaze and certain Pi Kappa Alpha artifacts, including the charter were saved.
Pierce said the fraternity has not decided whether to build at its Stadium View Drive property or buy property closer to campus. Members are expected to make a decision within a month, he said.
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