Campus Development and Construction
Four campus development projects are currently under way, all with tremendous potential to directly benefit our neighborhood and downtown Arlington, as well as the North Texas region and beyond.
Current Campus Projects
UT Arlington's new Engineering Research Building fosters cutting-edge collaborations between Engineering and Science and power potential public-private sector partnerships. Located at the southeast corner of Cooper Street and UTA Boulevard, the facility will stimulate learning and fuel research to solidify the University’s status among the nation’s top universities. Additionally, the building’s LEED Gold design standards employs many energy-saving features such as light-reflecting and green-roof surfaces, window designs and shading that increase the use of available light and reduce heat transfer, rainwater and air-conditioning, condensation capture and storage for landscape irrigation, and additional environmentally friendly attributes.
College Park District
Spaning more than 20 acres the College Park District, includes a broad range of amenities, and encompases the University’s special events center — College Park Center, mixed-use development, and the Green at College Park.
College Park Center
With the growth of the University’s resident and traditionally aged student population, the number of top-notch entertainment and enrichment activities has grown exponentially. Designed to LEED Gold specifications, this 218,000-square-foot facility will seat 7,000 guests and will provide a new home court for the University’s sports teams and be host to entertainment and enrichment programming.
Residences and Retail
The 4 story residential and retail mixed-use developent will be a catalyst for revitalizing downtown Arlington. It will include a residence hall and apartments for 500 students, a welcome center, retail shops and restaurants, and an 1,800-car parking garage.
The Green at College Park
The Green at College Park connects to the city’s Center Street Trail system and is part of an international pilot project devoted to sustainable landscape design, construction, and maintenance. The park features native grasses and adaptive plants, and a dry creek bed that helps manage rainwater and storm water runoff, and a large lawn and seating.
The University has broken ground on UT Arlington's new, $78 million College Park Center. In addition to providing first-rate facilities for the University’s NCAA basketball and volleyball teams, the approximately 218,000-square-foot, 7,000-seat center will accommodate a wide variety of events, including convocations, commencements, concerts, political debates, speakers and conferences. It also will provide a venue for year-round public events in the heart of Arlington’s downtown redevelopment zone.
The College Park Center is expected to be completed in December 2011 and to be built to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Certification for sustainable development. A combination of local university funds, private gifts and revenue bonds will provide financing.
To support both the College Park Center and downtown attractions, UT Arlington is also constructing an adjacent parking garage and multi-use facility to include retail space and a student residence hall. The garage will provide 1,800 parking spaces on four levels, while the residence hall will wrap around the parking garage on three sides along South Pecan, West Second and South Center streets. The building will include retail and office space at the ground level, a University police satellite office and a plaza that will integrate the project with the special events center to the south.
The University of Texas at Arlington has leased mineral rights to Carrizo Oil and Gas, Inc. for the purpose of exploring and developing natural gas from an underground geologic formation called the Barnett Shale. This underground formation lies more than a mile below the earth’s surface and covers approximately 5,000 square miles in at least 17 counties in North Texas.
Activity at the natural gas site at the southeastern edge of campus is providing revenues for a growing number of mineral owners in surrounding neighborhoods who signed agreements with Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc. Currently, the University plus mineral owners in the College Hills area, the Arlington Independent School District, and the City of Arlington are receiving monthly royalty payments.
UT Arlington is investing the royalties in programs that directly support students, faculty and the academic mission. These funds are being leveraged with private gifts to achieve their maximum potential.
