August 3, 2006

Meeting planned to discuss South Campus Housing Plan

In June of 2005, the Arizona Board of Regents adopted the ASU Comprehensive Development Plan setting the framework for growth of the University over the next decade.

A major tenet of this plan was the conversion of the ASU Tempe Campus from a commuter school to a residential campus. The McAllister Academic Village is under construction at the Northeast corner of McAllister and Apache, to be followed by the adjacent Barrett Honor College Student Housing Project.

To meet the continued student growth needs of the campus, ASU is in the planning stages of the South Campus Student Housing Project. This project will be a partnership with Arizona Campus Communities (ACC), one of the premier student housing development and management companies in the country. ACC has developed the next generation of student housing projects for the campus that will also include neighborhood commercial uses.

The campus community and general public is invited to a public meeting to hear about this exciting new student housing project and to provide input before the project is finalized.

The public meeting for the South Campus Housing Plan will be at 7 p.m., Aug. 16 at the Holiday Inn Tempe, at 915 East Apache Blvd., Tempe, Arizona 8528 .