Aggies break ground

[TopFrog]

Texas A&M breaks ground on new Fort Worth campus with aim to close workforce gaps​

Dallas Morning News on MSN.com|46 minutes ago

FORT WORTH — Despite being home to several colleges and universities, Fort Worth is among the few large cities in Texas without its own institution boasting a prestigious ranking reserved for schools with the highest research activity.

Leaders of the Texas A&M University System plan to change that by building a new campus in the heart of Fort Worth’s downtown, according to Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp.

Read more at https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/car...-with-aim-to-close-workforce-gaps/ar-AA1cSNUD

More than a year after announcing plans to build the new campus, city and business leaders and Texas A&M officials kicked off construction of the Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus on Wednesday.

 

[jack the frog]

Preliminary artist rendering:

 

[Dogfrog]

Aggie spin. Actually A&M is an AAU level University located in BUGTUSSLE that will have a satellite presence in Fort Worth.

 

[HToady]

Are they partnering with Wuhan?

 

[Bizarro Frog]

All jokes aside this will be great for Downtown especially in that area. My niece graduated from the current law school there and luckily she was not converted to Aggie but remained a Red Raider (funny comments here).

 

[Purp]

All jokes aside this will be great for Downtown especially in that area. My niece graduated from the current law school there and luckily she was not converted to Aggie but remained a Red Raider (funny comments here).

Name checks out.

 

[namollec]

Breaking ground will be different from them breaking wind around here for so long.

 

[BrewingFrog]

I can only imagine what kind of hideous Brutalist architecture will result...

 

[Panther City Frog]

I can only imagine what kind of hideous Brutalist architecture will result...

 

[Fred Garvin]

I am sure it will display every CFB national championship banner the SEC has won since they joined.

 

[Eight]

wouldn't breaking ground be one of the very things associated with an agricultural school?

 

[YA]

It will be a ugly building
aggie building

 

[TemCatFrog71]

Texas A&M breaks ground on new Fort Worth campus with aim to close workforce gaps​

Dallas Morning News on MSN.com|46 minutes ago

FORT WORTH — Despite being home to several colleges and universities, Fort Worth is among the few large cities in Texas without its own institution boasting a prestigious ranking reserved for schools with the highest research activity.

Leaders of the Texas A&M University System plan to change that by building a new campus in the heart of Fort Worth’s downtown, according to Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp.

Read more at https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/car...-with-aim-to-close-workforce-gaps/ar-AA1cSNUD

More than a year after announcing plans to build the new campus, city and business leaders and Texas A&M officials kicked off construction of the Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus on Wednesday.

Interesting that A&M would do that in Fort Worth when just a few years ago the A & M System began the extentions of Tarleton University (an A & M school) into south Fort Worth.

 

[Hemingway]

Remember when TCU and Wesleyan couldn’t come to an agreement about the value of those parking lots?

 

[James Penny]

It will be a ugly building
aggie building

Did they really put a cow riding in the back of a pickup truck in that rendering?

 

[Deep Purple]

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This is just a common phallic-cy.

Actually, nothing in this article is "news" -- it was all announced about two years ago. A&M's satellite campus in Fort Worth will not be for undergrads, but purely for graduate studies and research, especially in the arenas of technology and business. This will be good for the city and no threat to TCU.

Ironically, the site of Texas A&M Law School and adjoining lots around the Fort Worth Central Station were the original properties purchased by the Clark brothers in 1869 for the founding of TCU. But the cattle boomtown growth of Hell's Half Acre in that area, the unrelieved vice district catering to the cowboys hazing the Chisholm Trail herds north to Kansas, dissuaded the Clarks from using that site. They sold the Fort Worth property in 1873 when they founded TCU at the alternative site in Thorp Spring.

 

[Spike]

It will be a ugly building
aggie building

Right in the middle of their parking area. I attended 2 laws schools, STCL for the majority of my time but I visited TWU law for a summer and a fall. One of the few things Wesleyan (now Aggie) had going for it was that they actually had parking, whereas STCL was in the heart of downtown Houston but basically told us to fend for ourselves on parking. Other than that STCL was fantastic.

This new facility not only eliminates parking spaces but also creates more demand for spaces.

 

[Deep Purple]

Did they really put a cow riding in the back of a pickup truck in that rendering?

Mistaken identification. That isn't a cow riding in the back of a pickup. That's an Aggie out on a "date."

 

[Dogfrog]

Mistaken identification. That isn't a cow riding in the back of a pickup. That's an Aggie out on a "date."

It is my understanding A&M successfully negotiated a city code change allowing sheep as hotel guests if accompanied by an Aggie.

 

[Deep Purple]

This new facility not only eliminates parking spaces but also creates more demand for spaces.

Have you ever seen any of those parking lots full, or even half-full? I haven't. In fact, half-full would be a very good day for the lot owners. The location simply isn't convenient for the vast majority of those who work downtown. Those lots are mainly used by A&M Law students, who number fewer than 200 individuals. So why not a new building and parking for grad students?