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Mall site turned campus ready for next transformation

December 6, 2017
San Antonio Express-News
Mall site turned campus ready for next transformation

Photo: Bob Owen, San Antonio Express-News


It’s time to focus some much needed attention on the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Downtown Campus.

The needs of the satellite campus of the city’s largest four-year public university have been neglected while development and expansion of the main campus in the far Northwest Side has taken precedence.

We are encouraged to see UTSA and community leaders in agreement to boost the role of the 18-acre campus on the city’s West Side.

Once the location of an abandoned mall, known as the “pink elephant” for the bright color of its exterior, the UTSA Downtown Campus has it challenges.

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