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Feasibility Survey
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5th Street Update
Creating a Park-Like Setting between the Main Tech Campus and Tech Square In the past five years, there have been a lot of
changes on the Georgia Tech campus. Technology Square was completed in
2003. It is located across from the 5th Street Bridge in mid town, on the
east side of the campus. Tech Square is home to the College of Management,
a Barnes and Noble, the GA Tech bookstore, The Global Learning Center, and
the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.
The 5th Street Bridge Project’s goal is to make the bridge pedestrian friendly. They will be installing wide sidewalks, planter walls, trees, brick pavers and decorative lighting. The goal is to create a park-like setting between the main Tech campus and Tech Square. The Phi Sig’s old concrete steps and front entrance (remnants from the two original residential houses on 5th Street) were replaced. During fall rush, access to the fraternity should not be impacted as much by the construction as it has been in past years
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Tech Construction Means Changes for Us As the work on Technology Square progresses, and with some buildings
scheduled for completion by spring of Georgia Tech is also implementing a Greek area sector plan that calls for landscape and streetscape improvements by setting minimum standards to which new and existing facilities must comply. Properties that border 5th Street on the south side (KA house) will lose 12 feet of their yards. Properties on the north side of 5th Street (Phi Sig) will lose four feet. Georgia Tech will perform the road, landscaping and infrastructure improvements at its cost. If a new concrete retaining wall is added, Georgia Tech will be responsible for this work. How this impacts Phi Sigma Kappa is that we will have new retaining walls built along 5th Street. Our entrance may be reconfigured along with a portion of the old stone retaining wall. The Greek area sector plan calls for any recreational amenities — such as decks, basketball and volleyball courts, etc. — that face 5th Street to be relocated. All of the specifics have not been worked out, as these improvements will greatly affect Phi Sig and our current situation. Discussions have been held with Georgia Tech regarding the gravel parking lot behind our existing house. Georgia Tech is interested in some form of property swapping in the event that Phi Sig constructs a new fraternity house that would face 5th Street with parking between our house and the former Pi Kappa Phi house. All of this is still a work in progress and further updates will be provided as the plan comes together. Phi Sigma Kappa’s location gives us the unique distinction of being the first fraternity visible when everyone enters the Georgia Tech campus. The old real estate saying "location, location, location" will definitely hold true for us. Given this opportunity, Phi Sig must make our plans for the future expansion a reality if we want to take advantage of this situation. |
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2003, the 5th Street
expansion/improvements are scheduled to start winter of 2002. The
improvements include widening 5th Street, adding turn lanes at
intersections, widening sidewalks and providing bicycle lanes and
landscape buffers. All of this is being done to transform the bridge at 5th
Street into the main campus entrance.