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UT SYSTEM MOOLAH EVERYWHERE, BUT WHERE'S OUR SHARE?
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b>By Juan Montoya</b></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b></b><b></b><b></b>While Hizzoner Da Mayor Tony Martinez is out begging alms from the poor in Brownsville to offer as tribute to the Almighty UT System Regents to lure them to stay in Downtown Browntown, the third-wealthiest institution of higher education in the United States is lavishing more than $420 million on other campuses in the state.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin_D6u1X-18i5W2Yghtg1KkQR1D2Idb6rcxwccxtMusBs5Rpj3JfO0r-SWSp-KRDwPdtmZ4UE4cUcO8HT6P46eDm7fTxyFduvCMdbhvoP-nPgXzSa40Ak4XJCP-s-xCodGqR8OH5krG2k/s1600/panmayr.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin_D6u1X-18i5W2Yghtg1KkQR1D2Idb6rcxwccxtMusBs5Rpj3JfO0r-SWSp-KRDwPdtmZ4UE4cUcO8HT6P46eDm7fTxyFduvCMdbhvoP-nPgXzSa40Ak4XJCP-s-xCodGqR8OH5krG2k/s320/panmayr.gif" width="320" /></a>Martinez has issued Reqests For Proposals to local property owners to offer their land at market value "for the good of Brownsville" to entice the mighty univeristy to deign and remain â€" and revitalize â€" the carcass known as downtown Brownsville.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>He knows that a Better Block celebration here, a Mercadito there, and even the transformation of Market Square into a highbrow artsy-fartsy center ain't gonna cut the mustard and resurrect what once was a bustling market center for Brownsville.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">While the fortunes of downtown have headed south, commerce and real estate speculation â€" fueled by the construction of US 77-83, PUB utilities extensions, and business expansion â€" have all headed north.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Da Mayor â€" as have previous Texas Southmost College and University of Texas at Brownsville supportersâ€" are counting on the UT System to rush in at the last moment like the Ft. Brown Cavalry and save the day. But how realistic is that hope?<br />We're after all, speaking of a deadbeat university system that has up to now refused to pay more than $12 million in back rent to the community college as was agreed to in the "partnership" contract it signed with TSC more than 20 years ago. In fact, it has been in arrears since back in the 1990s (1994, we believe) and when cornered, has shifted the responsibility to the Texas Legislature, which in turn has shunted off the debt and said the UT System is responsible, not them.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And while the UT System seems content to await what gifts Martinez and UTB President Juliet Garcia, its plantation overseer, can scrape from the local taxpayers and property owners, it has announced that it is spending close to $430 million in other locales other than in the the heavily Hispanic populated campuses of UT Pan American in Edinburg and UTB, Brownsville.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">These are the totals announced by the System's Regents. Now Mayor, don't let anyone see your mouth water. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b>UT-Permian Basin approves new 10-year facility master plan</b></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Along with renaming the campus in Midland The University of Texas Permian Basin-Midland (UTPB-Midland), regents of The University of Texas System recently approved a 10-year facility master plan that calls for building new facilities for the Midland campus and the UTPB campus in Odessa.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The new facilities plan calls for about $264 million in capital improvements at both the Midland and Odessa campuses, with $88 million allotted for new housing units, $73 million for academic and engineering facilities, $60 million for infrastructure and $43 million for an events center.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The new 10-year plan calls for building three large academic buildings, an athletic building and residential housing units at the UTPB-Odessa campus, said David Watts, UTPB president. The plan also calls for a 6,000-seat events center to host community and sporting events for the Odessa campus. The new facilities plan for the UTPB-Midland campus includes a 95,000-square-foot engineering building, on-campus housing and additions to existing buildings at that campus, Watts said. Regents must approve any plans to build new facilities before construction can begin at either campus, he added.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /><b>UT-El Paso approves $25 million project to upgrade campus</b></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The University of Texas at El Paso officials recently approved a $25 million project to renovate the campus to make it friendlier to pedestrians, add bike paths and provide more green spaces, including a plaza for community events.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">University officials began working more than 10 years ago with the city, the El Paso Water Utilities and the Texas Department of Transportation to develop plans to make the campus more environmentally friendly and attractive to students, faculty and staff, regents said.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /><b>UT regents approve new $45 million center for UT-San Antonio</b></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Regents for The University of Texas System recently approved construction of a new $45 million Academic Learning and Teaching Center at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio.<br />Regents also approved the design plan for a new $95 million, 198,000-square-foot clinical building for a dental school to be built in the South Texas Medical Center, the patient care facility for UT Medicine San Antonio.<br />Plans call for the 125,000-square-foot academic and teaching center to be a state-of-art teaching facility for the study of the anatomy to train medical, dental, nursing and other health professional students, said Kenneth L. Kalkwarf, interim president of the Health Science Center in San Antonio. The new academic facility will allow more medical students to train at the Health Science Center, he said.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7452703675939641740?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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