aggie0083

Their name is somewhat deceptive, i.e. "Post Oak"

Well, it is located on the corner or POST OAK Place and POST OAK Parkway, and 100 yards from POST OAK Park.

A&M just needs to build more dorms on-campus so less people would have to drive from off-campus.

Very nice! Although it is sad to see one of my most visited buildings change so much, this will be a great upgrade for the University.

Hey guys, what's going on at this site, anything?

It pretty much looks like this now:

Artist renderings from the City of Bryan and A&M HSC websites:

I hope they eliminate some of that sprawl and allow it to be more of a walkable campus like the Main Campus. Let's not make this another West Campus design.

The commuter rail line and HOV expansion can't come soon enough. If 290 is so bad, why have the waited so long to reconstruct it? I-10 got (and is getting) rebuilt first.

Because I-10 use to be worse than 290.

They're actually working on it

Any information on when this will open? I use the temp lot now and look forward to parking my car in the covered garage. I just hope they add more buses since pretty much every bus currently is at capacity. Right now any new riders that the lot may attract is going to find full buses.

One other thing, before this opened the slowdown at 290/1960 would back up to before Telge. Over the last few months I have noticed that that backup has shrunk quite a lot. Has any other changes been made to that section of 290 besides the Cypress P&R that would account for this? I guess taking 200+ cars off that section an hour would have a good effect.

Schools out. That takes a lot of cars off the road.

I never said they were copying Katy. I agree with you though. I wouldn't live in Katy either. I just have to. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't live in any of these piece of ____, plastic suburbs. The Woodlands, Cypress, Katy, Pearland, Sugar Land, etc.

Why does every thread have to turn into a suburb vs city bash

It really depends on who you ask. Right now, they have no identifiable funding, so maybe never.

Well, it is under design, so that's a start.

Interesting maps. The Dallas Cowboys fanbase is huge!

Wow, the A&M fan base is huge on there as well.

http://209.189.226.235/stories/061707/am_20070617006.php

The building will actually be quite beautiful - see 83's pics.

Yeah, it looks better in the close up renderings than in the far away renderings. Of course, they are all just renderings, so I'll save my judgment until I see the real thing completed next year.

PV has as much history as A&M and they are unique in theor own way as the others were geared as satellite campuses

True.

PV needs to do some marketing to sell the school better.

The Building is beautiful. It has a very nice contemporary style look to it. The price is $100 million?

That's actually a different building that the thread got on a tangent to.

But, of course the building shown will be the largest on campus only to be triumphed by this $100 million engineering building a few years after.

The A&M system will push the buttons on architechture....look at PV's architechture building

A&M at Prairie View? Will never happen.....

Yeah, I know it won't. But, I've always thought it was kind of strange that two of the 11 (or 13) A&M system schools don't have the words "Texas A&M" in their name.

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University at Galveston

Texas A&M University at Qatar

Texas A&M University

package it with a academic center/classroom space and you can push it through....I've never seen how can a campus like PV function without a viable football stadium all these years...you throw that on campus, alot of guys at A&M

for example, would transfer down knowing there's a nice campus with facilities close by...

got to get a PV alum on the board of regents....the president the regents chose for PV.....I see why they did it...thanks

I always thought they should change the name to Texas A&M - Prairie View, but I don't think that will ever happen.

I agree. I guess they are just trying to make it fit in with the rest of Aggieland. ATM is easily one of the ugliest campuses I have ever seen. When compared to other large state schools, it is way behind the curve.

I guess the building looks a little better from other angles:

when will these regents spend some cash on Prairie View's football stadium? We have everything else new but that on campus oddly enough....

Athletics funding is separate from academic funding.

The latest on the neverending project - looks like litigation is in the works:

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/052707/local_20070527052.php

I can't believe it's been so long. I started this thread in 2004

I happened to be in on some of the meetings with architectural teams bidding to design these buildings. At the time, the locations currently referred to as "alternative" were the designated site. I know that the thing that was getting the architectural teams most excited was the chance to design buildings in such a prominent location as flanking the Administration building. Evidently the regents (or maybe just the chancellor) changed their mind about where they would be located. I think the new location will work a bit better in terms of keeping the Engineering buildings clustered. I hope it doesn't mess up my parking too much, though...

Interesting. Were their plans to match the architecture of the Academic Building? Were they going to put a building on each side or just one big one one side? Or was anything that specific ever discussed?

The new location will be better in keeping everything together. I liked the idea presented in the campus master plan where parking garages with an facade matching the Administration building flanked it's sides. Maybe they will still do that one day.

I just hope a lot of thought goes into the architecture of such a large building, I'm still not sure what to think of this one:

Not sure I like the idea of building it across Bizzell, which messes up the symmetry of campus.

I DEFINITELY don't like the idea of building it to either side of the Administration building. How could someone have even thought of that idea?

It'll be the first major building east of Bizzell, so it'll look out of place - but where else could you put it? The engineering area is full with the exception of the area between TTI and Zachry, the land north of Zachry, and the land east of CE. All of those areas are too small for a building of this magnitude now that the campus master plan limits buildings to 4 stories.

Those "Alternative Locations" are absolutely horrible though. The latest I've heard was that they would build parking garages that would have the same architecture as the Jack K. Williams Administration Building in those spots. They should stick with that idea.

Notice though, that the description of the location in the article doesn't match up with the picture they show (picture shows across from Wisenbaker, not Zachry). I wonder which one is correct.

Growth

makes me want to consider settling in Navasota and take advantage of the offshoot growth

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/050507/am_20070505037.php

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What new stores will be at the outlets. i can't seem to open the link. can someone list them.... please.

Sorry, I cleared my directory and away went those pdfs. I'll have to find them again.

Mr. Football, I'm guessing you got those from texags (unless my link spread quicker than I thought). Are you cypressag over there?

http://www.bryantx.gov/departments/index.h...me=police_jccam