TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY RIVERSIDE CAMPUS PLAN14FIGURE 1The 2004 plan also proposed the need for bet-Sciences has a new District <strong>Plan</strong> with significantTraditions Golf Course and rapidly-expandingClinical building on <strong>Texas</strong>A&M Health Science CenterBryan campus on Highway 47ter physical connections between the Main andWest campuses. A wide pedestrian path fromKyle Field going under the Wellborn Road andnew headquarter buildings for teaching, researchand administration, and an extensive Equine Initiativethat will combine teaching and recreationalresidential development.Growth on <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong> since 1980the railroad tracks to the Recreation Center hasuses and facilities for the Parsons Mounted Cav-In spite <strong>of</strong> the developments on Main and Westbeen completed and has proved successful. Analry unit.<strong>Campus</strong>es and the initiation <strong>of</strong> the new Healtheven more ambitious grade separation accommo-Science Center campus, <strong>Texas</strong> A&M Universitydating bus, car, cycle and pedestrian traffic link-The <strong>Texas</strong> A&M Health Science Center (TAM-and various <strong>Texas</strong> A&M University System agen-ing the main campus with the west campus is dueHSC) has developed a separate identity on High-cies have built new research and education facili-for completion in 2013, and is already generatingway 47, further supported by the OneHealth Plusties at the <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong> since 1980. Theseproposals for new academic and sports facilitiesBiocorridor proposed by the cities <strong>of</strong> Bryan andinclude a Processing Laboratory (7180), Solventon the West <strong>Campus</strong>, and consideration <strong>of</strong> a WestCollege Station and Brazos County (2011), linkedExtraction Building (7181), Extraction Building<strong>Campus</strong> Residence Life development. Also, theto the Veterinary School and extending to the(7182), Refinery (7183), Fats & Oils ProcessingCollege <strong>of</strong> Veterinary Medicine and BiologicalTAM-HSC, a significant tract that backs onto theBuilding (7184), TEEX - PS&S <strong>Office</strong> Building1
HISTORY15(7751), Ocean Drilling Test Facility (8032), TEEXThe University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> System and The <strong>Texas</strong><strong>of</strong> space required, the need for significant groundFIGURE 2ITSI <strong>Office</strong>s (7900), TEEX – ITSI (7901), TEEXITSI Shop (7906), Good Lab Practices (8525),TTI Hangar <strong>Office</strong> Building (7091), TTI Storage(7095), Honey Bee/Apiary Services BuildingA&M University System are constructing a JointLibrary Facility. The first phase <strong>of</strong> this warehouselikestructure is now funded and construction beganacross from Warehouse 8524 in 2012. Theareas for training and experimental projects thatare inherently dangerous, or the necessity for activitiesor test facilities that are not aestheticallycompatible with a traditional campus setting.New Janice and John G.Thomas ‘59 Honey Bee Facilityon <strong>Riverside</strong> campus, builtin 2009.(6884), the Architecture Ranch (7007), TTI Ero-<strong>Texas</strong> Engineering Extension Service (TEEX)Nevertheless, the 2012 <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>sion and Sediment Control Laboratory (7030),is constructing a gymnasium facility adjacent toconcurs with the basic needs identified in theTEEX - PS&S Driving Track Pavilion (7066),its major <strong>of</strong>fice building (7751). TEEX also has1988 <strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>, especially as they relate to aTTI Environmental & Emissions Research Facil-approval for a significant expansion <strong>of</strong> its Firinghigh-quality physical environment that fulfills theity (7096), Telecommunications Optical RemoteRange from Building 8681 to the southern bound-expectations <strong>of</strong> a 21st century teaching, researchBuilding (7439), TEEX - PS&S UXO Demoary <strong>of</strong> the campus.and service institution, and embodies qualitiesRange Pavilion (8600), TEEX - PS&S UXOthat will enhance the opportunities for innovationSearch Grid Pavilion (8601), TEEX - PS&S Fir-Other facilities under consideration include a sec-and inter-disciplinary collaboration.ing Range Classroom (8685),and the TEEX ShootHouse (8687).ond Environmental Testing Facility for the <strong>Texas</strong>Transportation Institute, and a new 2500-foot x100-foot concrete ‘ridge-rut facility’ for the sameagency.Building on the Past for the Benefit <strong>of</strong> theFutureMost especially, the historical analysis supportsthe view that the <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong> has a uniquecharacter, and the plan therefore recommends thatthe remaining physical evidence <strong>of</strong> planning andconstruction from 1943 through 1962 should beconsidered for long-term conservation and re-useGiven the powerful incentives to retain tradition-to celebrate this rich and honorable history, andal academic and student life on the main campus,the memory <strong>of</strong> the brave men and women whothe development <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong> willserved there during its time as an active militarybe shaped by its unique opportunities to providebase.space for teaching, research, service and trainingactivities that cannot be accommodated on theother College Station campuses <strong>of</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> A&MUniversity, either for the sheer volume and type2