Arizona State University opens new housing development for Greek life

PHOENIX — The fraternity and sorority community at Arizona State University now has a new home.

The Greek Leadership Village will hold about 950 fraternity and sorority members in a group of townhouse-style apartments.

The village will include 27 Greek chapters in three- or four-story townhouses, each ranging from 19 to 41 beds for sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Gary Ballinger, the director of fraternity and sorority life at Arizona State University, told KTAR News 92.3 FM that the Greek Leadership Village was built after students asked for the project.

“The students came to the university of administrators and asked for an opportunity to live together on campus,” he said.

“They put together a plan of what they were looking for and then had the opportunity to go to different college campuses across the country to look at other fraternities and sororities communities,” he added.

“Then they took the best ideas from those visits and developed a plan for the Greek village here at ASU.”

The newly-constructed housing community, which opened ahead of the upcoming school year, was a student-led project that will provide the community with meeting spaces, council offices, retail space and housing facilities.

The project will also help support their leadership, growth and development.

“Students had the opportunity to customize the paint colors in their common rooms, the finishings, the floor, their kitchen, their appliances, and they even got to inlay their crest, coat of arms and or special letters into the floor,” Ballinger added.

In the middle of the Greek Leadership Village is a 33,000-sqaure-foot community center that will house the meeting spaces for every chapter at ASU.

Ballinger said it will host events like chapter meetings, executive councils, philanthropy events, speakers, and educational sessions.

The village is located on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus on the southeast corner of Rural and University, off of Terrace Road.

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