The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents vote on the expansion of the Fort Worth campus comes over a year after breaking ground on a Law & Education building
FORT WORTH, Texas — A second building for the Texas A&M-Fort Worth research campus is in the works.
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents Thursday gave the green light to system leaders to begin the design of a second building on the campus just over a year after the Texas A&M System broke ground on an eight-story, $180 million Law & Education Building last summer.
The second building, dubbed Research and Innovation Building A, will house various A&M system agencies participating in the research campus in southeast downtown, near the expanding convention center. Some of the tenants of the new building will include Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas Division of Emergency Management.
The building could cost up to $260 million, including 150,000 gross square feet of offices and lab space for the Texas A&M System at an estimated cost of $150 million. The rest would be for private sector partners and parking that could be used by campus tenants and the public.
“Our state agencies bring a whole different dynamic to the campus, whether through research, workforce training or other services to the community and local businesses,” said Chancellor John Sharp. “The A&M System is here to support the regional economy.”
It’s unclear when construction is expected to begin on Building A.
Long-range plans leave space for future expansion for a Research & Innovation Building B, though.
Texas A&M University System officials say the existing law school will also eventually be demolished and replaced with a multi-purpose community building called the Gateway Building.
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