During a recent breakfast discussion, UT's interim president, Jim Davis, discussed the university's changing position in Austin's development scene. Once a major builder, UT now competes with larger tech companies and infrastructure projects for attention and resources. Davis highlighted challenges in attracting contractors, expressing a need to improve partnerships. Future plans include covering parts of I-35 with caps to create public spaces and align the universityâs growth with Austin's development goals, though concrete steps remain uncertain.
At Wednesday's Urban Land Institute Austin breakfast discussion, interim University of Texas President Jim Davis offered a candid assessment of the university's evolving role in Austin's booming development scene.
Those remarks, delivered to a room full of developers and land use professionals, touched on the university's long-term ambitions to reshape its real estate strategy, including plans to install caps over portions of Interstate 35 near campus.
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