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J. Tillman at the Mohawk - Giveaway
The chairman of the UT Board of Regents is recommending the formation of a task force of university and community leaders to evaluate and make recommendations regarding the future use and development of 345 acres along Town Lake west of MoPac. The land currently hosts the Colorado and Brackenridge student housing complexes, the Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Lions Municipal Golf Course, a Randall's and some other tenants.
The Brackenridge Field Labaratory, of course, is well known for its wide variety of ants and its probing research therein. Mechanisms of interspecies competition between invasive and native fire ants was a riot.
A part of this land was sadly rejected as the future site of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. Also, UT already sold off the land on the other side of Town Lake, so a Colossus of Rhodes-style statue of W straddling the water is probably out. What to do, what to do? Jump on the high-rise-condo bandwagon? Build a giant ant farm? Any suggestions out there?
* Image from The University of Texas School of BIological Sciences
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give dubya his library. it couldn't be that big, right?
I think the statue would be funnier.
How about a new football stadium?
How about a mall like they have over there by the Backyard?
Austin needs more rent controlled housing. I'm sure Tarrytown would go for that, with all the professors and libs there, it's a shoe-in. Muahaha - hahah - hahahahahahahahaha
I think a lot of those west austin types push pretty hard at the university and city for rent controlled housing to create a "sustainable" community. Let's put it there. In Tarrytown. Ha ha ha. Hahahahahahahahahaha.