{"id":398713,"date":"2026-08-05T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398713\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:12:08","slug":"texas-am-opens-fort-worth-campus-building-breaks-ground-on-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398713\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&M opens Fort Worth campus building, breaks ground on second"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, the university celebrated the grand opening<\/a> of its eight-story, 228,000-square-foot Law & Education Building in downtown Fort Worth, according to a news release. Immediately following, the university broke ground on its 11-story Research & Innovation Building.<\/p>\n

“Today’s celebration marks the beginning of what’s ahead for Texas A&M-Fort Worth,” Kim McCuistion, associate vice chancellor and director of Texas A&M-Fort Worth, said in the release. “Together, we’re building a unique campus where universities, state agencies and industry partners work side by side to prepare students, advance research and solve real-world challenges.”<\/p>\n

The Law & Education Building will house several academic programs from A&M and Tarleton State University, while the upcoming Research & Innovation Building aims to expand the university’s research capabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Once complete, the Fort Worth campus is expected to generate more than $3 billion in annual economic activity and support more than 25,000 direct and indirect jobs. The project carries a $1.5 billion price tag and has been underway since 2022, according to WFAA.<\/a><\/p>\n

“The two buildings will serve as the academic and research anchors of the Switchyard Innovation District, a planned hub for education, research, entrepreneurship and business collaboration in southeast downtown Fort Worth,” according to the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Law & Education Building will serve as a hub for the Texas A&M School of Law and several other programs across engineering, business, healthcare, pharmacy, biotechnology and medical laboratory sciences. Six Texas A&M System agencies will also be based in the building.<\/p>\n

The facility is designed to bring together students, researchers, public service professionals and industry partners for collaboration, applied research and hands-on learning.<\/p>\n

“This is not simply another downtown building or a collection of academic programs,” Glenn\u00a0Hegar, chancellor of The Texas A&M University System, said in the release. “It is a place where a student can meet a future employer, a researcher can sit across the table from a company facing a real problem and a good idea can become a product, a business or a job.”<\/p>\n

Immediately following the grand opening of the Law & Education Building, crews broke ground on the Research & Innovation Building.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The university said the facility will “expand opportunities for university researchers, Texas A&M System agencies and private-sector partners to collaborate in aerospace, engineering, agriculture, health sciences, virtual production, medicine, food and nutrition science, biotechnology and transportation,” according to the release.<\/p>\n

Construction on the 11-story building is scheduled to be completed in 2029.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, the university celebrated the grand opening of its eight-story, 228,000-square-foot Law & Education Building in downtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16470,1836,1704,85744,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-398713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chroncollege","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-chrontexas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}