ASU freshmen entering the university in fall 2006 will be the first to have their digs at the all-new McAllister Academic Village, the first ASU living-learning community to be built on the Tempe campus since 2001. Students will have classrooms, dining facilities and retail shops just minutes from their rooms.

After the first phase of construction is completed, about 900 students will live in groups of 40 to 50, in four-bed and two-bed suites, with shared study areas and a bathroom for each suite. The buildings will be four to seven stories tall, with a two-story, glassed-in lounge space with a kitchen and access to an exterior courtyard for each community of 120 students. The facility includes five classrooms, primarily for freshman English and math, and faculty offices.

In the second phase of construction, which will provide another thousand spaces no later than fall 2007, ASU will build a comprehensive dining facility and food emporium. The facility is located on eight acres near McAllister Avenue and Apache Boulevard.

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Visitors to the McAllister Village groundbreaking view a model of the complex.

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