"Surrounded by dirt, machinery and construction noise, Texas A&M University officials, local politicians and city leaders donned hard hats to break ground on what will be the first Texas A&M University College Station facility in the Tres Lagos development.
‘This is Texas A&M, the flagship coming to the Rio Grande Valley,’ said Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp. ‘The Rio Grande Valley is joining the largest research university in the Southwestern United States. You have to go the east coast, to the west coast, to find any university that competes with the $900 million research behemoth that is Texas A&M University.’" …