“We’re not just raising buildings here in Fort Worth. We’re raising the bar on education, and this is going to mean so much to the definition of this city in the future.”

John Goff
Chairman
Fort Worth-Tarrant County Innovation Partnership
.…speaking at a “topping out” ceremony for Texas A&M-Fort Worth’s Law and Education Building, via Fort Worth Report.

John Goff

Texas A&M is putting a major stamp on downtown Fort Worth, thanks to a $350 million research campus under construction in the Panther City. On Monday, a milestone was marked 250 feet above the future site of Texas A&M-Fort Worth, which is slated to become a major hub for education, research, and innovation for years to come.

Civic, business, and university leaders were on hand for a “topping out” ceremony for Texas A&M-Fort Worth’s Law and Education Building, with an Aggie-maroon beam signed and delivered to its lofty home. When it’s completed in 2026, the eight-story, $185 million building will feature academic programs including law, medical technology, nursing, engineering and others..

“Cities are defined more by big institutions, educational institutions, than they are by companies,” Goff said at the ceremony, according to Fort Worth Report’s Shomial Ahmad. “This is going to be a collaboration that’s going to have a lasting impact on Fort Worth.”

Rendering of the Law & Education building at Texas A&M Fort Worth [Image: Texas A&M System]

The Fort Worth campus is being built in downtown’s southeast quadrant, where Texas A&M School of Law currently stands.

The partnership with the Texas A&M University System, the city of Fort Worth, and Tarrant County will feature innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology at its core, offer a home for academic programs across multiple disciplines, and create concentric circles of industry co-location and collaboration, the university has said.

“It was only three years ago; I stood on this site—a parking lot at the time—and announced the intent to build an urban research campus,” Chancellor John Sharp of The Texas A&M University System said in a statement. “Today, only three years later, our first building—the Law & Education Building—is being “topped out,” thanks to our hardworking construction team.”

You can read more about Monday’s event—and see a video of the Aggie beam craning its way up into the sky—in the FWR story here.

The beam is lifted into place to top out Texas A&M-Fort Worth’s Law and Education Building. [Photo: TAMU System]

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