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Stephanie Wiechmann
The lot along University Avenue across from Root's Burger Bar, will offer a nearly half acre green space hookups for food trucks, tables for eating and gathering, and activities. Possibilities being discussed include outdoor game tables, a fireplace, or even a large television to watch movies or sports. Chris Palladino is Ball State's director of real estate services. He says the new village green needs to be seen as more than just a Ball State space.

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Chris Palladino
It's not a space that's part of campus. It's more of a community space. And I think the way we would activate that space is through special events, through programing, through things that the village merchants could also be involved with.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
A nearby block of Martin Street, from the green to the campus's East Mall will also be reconstructed to be curb loss. Officials say it will be easier for pedestrians, bicyclists and cars to share the road and to close it for events. The green space is part of a plan to revitalize the village, including two Ball State buildings, a new hotel and planned new homes.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Addressing Ball State's Board of trustees, University President Geoffrey Mearns explains.

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Geoffrey Mearns
So the idea, Henry, that there is to is to continue to buy property in the village, that that is the continuous connection between the campus and the more commercial.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Trustees approved a budget of $5.4 million for the Green and Martin Street changes. Officials say construction can begin at this fall and will be completed by next summer. I'm Stephanie Wiechmann in Muncie.