RELLIS CAMPUS GROUNDBREAKING TODAY

  

The Texas A&M University System is set to break ground on the new RELLIS Campus today (Monday).

Formerly known as the Riverside Campus, RELLIS will be located on approximately 2,000 acres of largely underdeveloped real estate located adjacent to State Highways 47 and 21. It will be a high-tech, multi-institutional research, testing and workforce development campus. The groundbreaking  today will be on a $73 million dollar research building.

Blinn College and The Texas A&M System announced in May that Blinn would build a facility at the RELLIS Campus as part of the Gateway Education Center. The campus establishes a new educational community combining a major university system and a community college as a single physical location, and will allow Blinn students to transfer seamlessly to leading universities throughout The Texas A&M System.

The site will also create opportunities for Blinn to partner with other organizations and institutions located on the RELLIS Campus, including high-end, innovative, private research and development companies, the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX).

Blinn’s Phase 1 RELLIS Campus academic building will accommodate approximately 2,500 students and is scheduled to open in 2018.