Our Home, Our Legacy

We have been working with Nate Volmuth of Goldmark Design and Development in Fargo. Nate is an NDSU grad and excited to work on this project! The project was submitted to the city for permitting in June 2025.

The house will be torn down the summer of 2025. Construction will begin immediately after and is anticipated to take 12 months to finish. 

We will open the new house in time for the fall semester of 2026! Please be sure to mark the weekend of October 3, 2026 on your calendar to attend the NDSU Homecoming and TKE events including tours of the new facility! 

The Board of Advisor’s acting on behalf of the TKE housing corporation has been working with Bell Bank in Fargo.  The housing corporation will take a construction loan out to pay for the construction. The need for a construction loan is because the groundbreaking will occur prior to all pledges being received as pledges can be made over a five-year horizon. Additional pledge commitments received will be used to pay down the balance of the mortgage with a refinance after the donations are complete to lower the monthly commitment for the active chapter.

The housing corporation will be the responsible party on the mortgage, using the property as collateral. This prevents any member from utilizing their own personal credit to secure the mortgage. The active chapter pays rent today and in the future to the housing corporation. The housing corporation ensures taxes, insurance and utilities are paid for through this revenue. Going forward, the mortgage will be another expense for the housing corporation to account for. 

Yes, the Board is committed to keeping the rent competitive with new properties around NDSU. This will result in an increase in rent from current to support the new property, but this is to be expected with a new property. The intent is to keep it in line with what NDSU students pay for the high-rise dormitory today.  

Yes, the Board has run a pro-forma of rent revenue as compared to expenses. Keeping the mortgage at a serviceable level as planned with the project and fundraising goal allows the Brothers to live in the house without saddling them with excessive monthly rent charges.  

The house is designed to sleep 20 members. This was determined based on an active chapter size of 50 members as the goal for the active chapter. This would allow 40% of all members to reside in the house which is a standard recommendation from firms involved in chapter housing. Freshmen are no longer allowed to break their housing contracts with campus, resulting in only sophomores and older able to live in the TKE house. 

As you are aware, this project was delayed for 3 years from our initial plan and resulted in a complete redesign of the house. This was obviously disappointing, but also a testament to our commitment to the Fraternity to persevere through a pandemic, supply chain issues, and immense inflationary pressures.  With this new design and budget, we will make this project happen. Existing funds collected have been leveraged to pay for the architect fees and we currently have $500,000 in an account with TKE HQ to use towards the project.

All Delta Psi brothers for whom we have a good mailing address received the Campaign Brochure packet. There are additional brothers that may not have received it because we don’t have a valid mailing address for them. If you know of a brother that has not received campaign communications, please provide us an update of their mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address so that we can make sure they receive future communications.