NJIT CAMPUS GATEWAY PROJECT - Our Chapter House is at Risk! You can go to the following link and take a look at NJIT’s Redevelopment plan for the area: http://gateway.njit.edu/

Once you are on the above site click on project news. Under that heading view the NJIT Conceptual Rehabilitation Master Plan. Page 47 of that report brings the wrecking ball to our block on MLK Blvd and does not leave our Chapter’s House standing.

Fact: NJIT’s Gateway Plan calls for our building to be demolished.
Fact: no one has asked Beta Alpha to be in on the creation of the gateway plan.
Fact: no one has offered us a possibility of a land swap or other offer to relocate our facility.
Fact: we can’t support a plan that demolishes our facility with out a clear cut alternative on the table.
Fact: we must be ready to fight an eminent domain case with 10 days notice at an est. cost of $20k plus.
Fact: It will take money and support to save our chapter house and to get ourselves the best deal.

No one has contacted Beta Alpha Chapter in regard to this plan. We have not been asked for our opinions. We have not been asked what type of facility requirements we need/want for our organization. The plan clearly wants our chapter house demolished. It goes as far as to say that our building does “not warrant saving”. We are not alone. Other Greek property owners have also not been asked to participate in the gateway plans formulation. NJIT is trying to sell this plan as having had Greek participation in the formulation of the redevelopment plan, but that is a falsehood. If they got any Greek participation it was not from Greek property owners and such participation has no bearing on the situation. NJIT announced that they were drawing up this plan, made some assurances that they are now going back on and showed us some renderings, but that is about it. NJIT does speak of the possibility of building a Greek Village on property that they own on the back side of campus. We have not been furnished with any details of that project and there is no guarantee that if the gateway project moves forward that they have to build a Greek Village or that it will be suitable for or organization at all. For now thru the Greek Alumni Council (GAC) we are trying our best to get as much information as we can about the situation we are in. Our primary objective is to get a seat at the table and be recognized as a real partner in this redevelopment plan and not just a bystander.

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