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Old Posted Feb 2, 2007, 8:47 PM
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A&M selects site for San Antonio campus. - Express News

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Web Posted: 02/02/2007 12:42 PM CST

Melissa Ludwig
Express-News

Regents for the Texas A&M University System on Friday announced they will likely build a new South Side A&M campus on 550 acres a half-mile south of Loop 410, a chunk of land donated by a group of Las Vegas investors hoping to profit from a planned community around the campus.

Regents voted to begin negotiations with Triple L Management and the city to obtain the site in what Chairman John White called “another giant leap forward in making Texas A&M University-San Antonio a reality.”

Triple L, which includes Las Vegas casino owners and executives, has offered to donate 400 acres for a campus and another 150 acres for an irrigation technology center. Triple L owns a total of 1,700 acres in the north of the Toyota manufacturing plant, and will use that acreage to build Verano at City South, a housing, entertainment and retail development.

Other offers, including one by Sugar Land-based development company Terramark Communities, would have required the city to buy land and donate it back to A&M. One option had the city spending $15 million to buy out about 100 landowners and clean up environmental messes.

Among the discarded offers, the big loser was Terramark, which was hoping to build a planned community called Espada around an 800-acre campus and irrigation technology center that would border the San Antonio River and neighbor Mission Espada and the Mission Trail.

Terramark offered to donate 400 acres of land between U.S. 281 and the San Antonio River for the campus, with the city buying another 400 acres adjacent to the donated plot, including 265 acres from Terramark.

Other sites in the running included a 400-acre parcel at the intersection of Loop 410 and U.S. 281 that would have required the city to spend at least $15 million to buy out around 100 landowners and clean up any environmental messes before donating it to A&M.

The last option, a 1,000-acre site south of the Toyota plant and off Loop 1604, was widely considered too far away.

A&M officials hope to open the campus in 2009 and expect it to draw 25,000 students within 25 years.
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Old Posted Feb 2, 2007, 10:24 PM
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Give it about 15-20 years tops to reach 25,000. With the city growth focused on the South Side, expect the campus to be capped out within 10 years of operation. They'll be in the same situation UTSA is in, and will be forced to build more academic facilities every year. Even today, a college degree is a dime a dozen. Just about everyone will need one to stay competitive in a tough job market.
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2009 seems really quick for an opening...Anyone think thats unrealistic?
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I\'m interested in seeing what the Las Vegas developers have planned.
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2009 seems really quick for an opening...Anyone think thats unrealistic?
Yes. The satellite location has only 500 students as of today. They have to get that above 1500 before they can even lift a shovel on the project, or so the article implies.
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With The Preserve at Medina River breaking ground a few months ago as well as Espada breaking ground early 2008 and Verano possibly breaking ground late second quarter of 2008 does anyone think TXDot may toll the southern portion of 1604? I mean if there's no money for anything on the north side then there's definitely nothing for the south side. Heck, will they do to 410 South as they're planning on doing to 1604? That is, add tolls to the grassy median that separates the freeway lanes.
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With The Preserve at Medina River breaking ground a few months ago as well as Espada breaking ground early 2008 and Verano possibly breaking ground late second quarter of 2008 does anyone think TXDot may toll the southern portion of 1604? I mean if there's no money for anything on the north side then there's definitely nothing for the south side. Heck, will they do to 410 South as they're planning on doing to 1604? That is, add tolls to the grassy median that separates the freeway lanes.
I believe the southern portion of 1604 from 35 south to around somewhere in between 37 and 10east will be part of the TTC 35 toll road. I believe sh 130 is also going to be part of TTC 35. there will be a connector road from somewhere in between 37 and 10 on 1604 to seguin to sh 130. from I believe the only thing so far thats not set in stone is if sh 130 will be part of ttc 35 or they might build a whole new road all together through central texas on the way up to dallas. one reason that sh130 will be part of the ttc 35 is because the state will be penalized for building any new competing roads with sh 130. well thats what i've read at mysa.com and keeptexasmoving.org for the past couple years
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