Students wanting to live on campus will have several different options in the next five years.

The Department of Residence’s Master Plan will create housing that is suitable for students of all ages.

Additions to the Union Drive Association and Hawthorn Court and renovations in Wilson Hall began this summer and are part of the Master Plan to create residential communities for older and younger students.

Hawthorn Court, Buchanan Hall, Wilson Hall, and Wallace Hall will make up the older student communities, said Randy Alexander, director of housing and food service.

Hawthorn Court

Additions to Hawthorn include eleven apartment buildings and a community center.

“We are opening seven more buildings this fall and four more in the spring and that will finish Hawthorn Court,” Alexander said.

The community center at Hawthorn Court will have an Internet cafe, convenience store, small fitness center, dining areas that can be closed off for meetings and a main dining area with a two-way fireplace and patio, he said.

Towers Residence Association

Wilson Hall, in the TRA, will have all single rooms with new furniture, carpet and paint.

“In addition to the regular furniture the rooms will also have a couch, coffee table and lamp,” Alexander said.

The Department of Residence decided to change Wilson Hall to single rooms to meet the needs of older students who wanted their own space but still wanted to live on campus, Alexander said.

The project will be completed for fall and is estimated to cost less than $1 million, he said.

Alexander said because of the demand for the rooms in Wilson Hall, Wallace Hall will also be renovated in the future to provide more single rooms for older students.

“We have always had more demand for single rooms than we could meet,” he said.

Wilson Hall Director Cory Ohms said non-traditional freshmen will not be able to live in Wilson.

“It will only be available for people who have had a year at ISU,” Ohms said. Ohms said it has not been discussed yet whether transfer students will be able to live in Wilson.

In the fall, Wilson Hall will house approximately 250 students and all rooms have already been assigned.

“When students come back I’m sure people will be dropping out or canceling their housing contracts during the summer – I’m sure we’ll have some openings,” Ohms said.

Union Drive Association

Additions to UDA began this summer with the demolition of Helser Hall to make room for a community center and the first of three new residence hall buildings, Alexander said.

The new buildings will have suite style rooms with a bathroom between every two rooms. Each floor will have two houses that share a computer lab, kitchen and laundry facilities, he said.

The UDA community center will have a new post office, convenience store, bakery, sports club, meeting room space and a new dining area that will replace the Friley dining center, Alexander said.

Alexander said the entire UDA project is estimated to cost $77 million, and $7 million of that will be used for new amenities and to improve utility service to Friley Hall.

The first residence hall will be completed in the fall of 2002, followed by the community center in the fall of 2003. The final two buildings are expected to be finished in the fall of 2004 and fall of 2005, Alexander said.