Work by MSLD Students
1. Campus Pointe (August 2004)
2. Scott & White into the 21st Century (August
2004)
3. The Howell Building (Summer 1999)
1. Campus Pointe (August 2004)
The Community Development Concept described in this Executive Summary culminates
working with a team of Graduate Students in the Land Development “Design & Feasibility”Studio,
on a University-funded study of a TAMU-owned 12-acre site next to campus. The
team followed the Sharkawy-Graaskamp Real Estate Development Process Model
(1974) to systematically analyze urban dynamics and market trends, and creatively
synthesize project design with venture structure and financial analysis.
Objectives
The proposed concept seeks to:
- Create an environment which serves interests
of both Texas A&M University
and the B/CS Community.
- Provide Texas A&M with a minimum of 300,000 sq
ft. of Academic Facilities for lease in 2008 at minimum rates.
- Enable the
City of College Station to accelerate redevelopment of Northgate, and achieve
its goal of building a City Convention Center.
- Achieve a Socially Responsible,
Environmentally Sensible, Financially Feasible Public Private Partnerships.
- Limit contributions by Texas A&M in a Public Private Partnership to
only the land, and contributions by College Station to only currently committed
funds for the Convention Center.
- Utilize Campus Pointe studies in teaching
and research to provide students a hands-on real-life experience as members
of a community development team.
2. Scott & White into the 21st Century (August 2004)
Expanding the physical facilities on the Scott & White Temple campus to
serve the fast growth of the Scott & White organization has been guided
in the past by a sequence of “master plans,” which coincided with
major construction activities. Recognizing the need to update Scott & White’s
master plan, an agreement was reached in 1992, between Scott & White and
Texas A&M’s Graduate program in land development to generate a “Master
Development Plan” for the 58.4 acre Scott & White campus. This study
recommends developing a complete continuing care retirement community (CCRC),
and an “options” health fitness and education center, and possibly
a first class conference hotel and a specialty retail center on the Scott & White
West Campus.
The Scott & White west side campus embodies a commitment to three concepts,
merged into one cohesive landscape architecture. It’s conference hotel,
with its terraced form anchors the development and provides a transition from
the institutional scale of the main campus to the residential scale of the
proposed retirement community. It’s stream and ponds separate the private
domain of its residents from that of its hotel and conference visitors. And
it’s specialty retail center provides a context for residents and visitors
to interact and integrate with the wider community.
 
3. The Howell Building (Summer 1999)
This work in a development feasibility study for the Howell Building located
in the Downtown Historic District of Bryan, Texas. The project provided a “real-life”, “hands-on” experience
for six graduate students in Texas A&M’ s Master of Science in Land
Development Program, and was used in the Program’s 1999 summer capstone
project.
This study considers the feasibility of creating a mixed-use facility consisting
of office, retail and/ or restaurant, and possibly residential uses. The report
includes a market analysis, study of urban linkages, design solutions and financial
feasibility.
 
The Howell Building is located in an area of increasing activity as it evolves
with the Historic Downtown Bryan District. The proposed redevelopment of
this building will promise a unique environment providing a revitalized downtown,
which is perceived by its people as an emblem of community.
In this study, project team make two proposed schemes of design to be tested
the feasibility of the project.
1. Mixed-use of restaurant and office development
2. Mixed-use of restaurant, office and residential development
 
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