UNT System
Construction on the second building of the campus of the University of North Texas at Dallas has begun. Contractors from the Beck Group began preparing the building site yesterday by removing hundreds of cubic yards of dirt.
The 100,000-square-foot, $41.8 million building designed by Overland Partners of San Antonio, will primarily serve as classroom space, but the facility will also house a dining and banquet area, faculty offices, and the school’s W.W. Carurth Jr. Dallas Police Institute.
In May, Gov. Rick Perry signed Senate Bill 629, which allowed for the expansion of facilities at three future Texas universities – Texas A&M Kingsville, Texas A&M Central Texas in Killeen, and the University of North Texas at Dallas.
The bill released $25 million in previously authorized tuition revenue bonds for UNT Dallas, which reached 1,000 full-time equivalent students in the spring 2009 semester – the level of enrollment required before the UNT Dallas Campus could begin the process of separating from the UNT flagship in Denton.
Administrators at UNT Dallas plan to offer classes in the new three-story building in the fall 2010 semester, when UNT Dallas will accept its first freshman class.
