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$151.3-Mil Campus Trio Makes UT Drawing Boards

SAN ANTONIO-The University of Texas at San Antonio is trying to stay on track with back-to-back building projects to meet projected enrollment growth. The drawing board now includes a $151.3-million trio of buildings, including an $80-million biotech center.

By Tim Green | Updated on October 08, 2001

SAN ANTONIO-Charles Lampe is running something like a building assembly line. One project is completed and another one is starting. It’s all part of an ambitious building effort at the 32-year-old University of Texas at San Antonio.

Lampe’s director of facilities, planning and development and he’s trying to keep pace with the number of students pouring into the school’s two academic campuses. The school added 1,000 students to its enrollment this year to reach 19,000, Lampe tells GlobeSt.com.

UTSA’s master plan calls for a build-out to accommodate 30,000 students in 2020. “Enrollments at the University of Texas and Texas A&M University are capped,” Lampe says. “Students are going to have to go somewhere.”

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