This story originally appeared on fortworthreport.org
In the afternoon sun Nov. 11, a final beam — in Aggie maroon embellished with white paint pen signatures — was lifted more than 250 feet up in the air to the top of the first building being constructed for the new Texas A&M Fort Worth campus in downtown.
The placement of that beam was part of the “topping off” ceremony that marked the end of one phase of the Law and Education Building’s construction. City, county, business and university leaders gathered in a white tent adjacent to the building to celebrate progress toward building a public university campus downtown and what that will mean to Fort Worth and its residents upon completion.
“We’re not just raising buildings here in Fort Worth. We’re raising the bar on education, and this is going to mean so much to the definition of this city in the future,” said John Goff, chairman of the Fort Worth-Tarrant County Innovation Partnership, the public-private partnership behind the campus. “Cities are defined more by big institutions, educational institutions, than they are by companies. This is going to be a collaboration that’s going to have a lasting impact on Fort Worth.”
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