Houses in the Works

[banditone]

Arkansas Phi Delt: http://arkansasphidelt.com/Plans.html

[SWTXBelle]

Anyone know how the U of South Carolina G Phi B house is coming along? Or is it finished?

[Lucky SC]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Anyone know how the U of South Carolina G Phi B house is coming along? Or is it finished?

it was completed i think last year, i'm a freshman and as far as i know this entire year they have been living inside of it

[SWTXBelle]

Now we just need to get someone to post a picture in the houses thread!

[Lucky SC]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Now we just need to get someone to post a picture in the houses thread!

http://www.sa.sc.edu/greeklife/housing.htm

that will pretty much show you all houses except Sigma Phi Epsilon, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Gamma Phi Beta which were recently built after these pictures were gathered up.

[SWTXBelle]

Arrrggghhh! It's the Gamma Phi house I want to see!

[barbino]

I love these houses (South Carolina). They are all so big and new. They all look different - and very Southern. I may have a new favorite "Greek Row/campus."

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by bowsandtoes

Unless they win the lottery the house isn't going to get built. Their current house is still owned by Sigma Chi, who's coming back next year. They're moving into SDT's house next year I hear.

With the new property taxes there's no way they can build that.

According to a Phi Psi active I spoke with, the plans are momentarily shelved but still in the works. They are definitely moving into SDT's house next year.

ADPi is building a new house at Washington and Lee. I've seen plans for it long, long ago. When they built the five current houses (completion of those houses occurred in 2000) they reserved a space for a potential sixth house and completed plans for it as well. It will be similar to the current houses with a different facade and probably reversed layout (each of the houses are the same but "flipped" in various ways and (obviously) with different decor. The plans I saw were from the Pi Phi chapter history back when the houses were being planned & constructed and there was a layout scheme for all six houses. Ironically the sixth house on the plans was labeled "Delta Delta Delta." I'm not sure what that was all about. Maybe wishful thinking on the part of some Tri-Delt architect? LOL. AFAIK there was never any attempt at expansion between KD in 1997 (the plans for the houses were put into motion around 1997) and the failed attempt in 2005. But those plans (which probably ended up in a lot of chapter histories from the architectural presentations to Panhellenic, etc) sure led to a lot of misinformation and confusion among sorority women at W&L. I'm hoping to get some shots of the house in progress when I go to campus in July for a wedding.

For the person who posted about the NC State housing, I'm curious where the sorority houses will be on that plan. It looks like all the initial houses are going to fraternities...

[FloridaTish]

I'm an alumna on the Fraternity/Sorority housing commitee and as of last Thrusday's meeting, we are awaiting final approval for our new Greek Housing...The Board of Trustees meets in a couple of weeks to decide if the new Greek Village will be a go. Estimated to be a $20 million project, it's been in the works for 6 years now and it's nice to see things materialize. Pending approval, they should be completed in Fall of 2010. There will be a total of 8 houses (5 fraternities and 3 sororities).

Yeah for new greek housing!

[SWTXBelle]

That's really exciting - I may have mentioned before that I grew up in Melbourne!

[FloridaTish]

I remember you telling me that once before. It probably won't be a while until we have the plans drawn up, as we've already shot down on set from the developer, so we are working on a new one. The one thing that SUCKS is that the school has mandated that the interior floorplans of the houses ALL have to be the same. Trying to get both fraternities and sororities to agree on everything is FUN, FUN, FUN!

[SWTXBelle]

Fraternities AND sororities?? Oh, my. I don't envy you that job!

[Lucky SC]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Arrrggghhh! It's the Gamma Phi house I want to see!

they just updated the pictures and added Sig Ep, and Gamma Phi Beta...

[Lucky SC]

wow, sorry for scale lol

[SWTXBelle]

THank you! It's gorgeous!