“I hope this might come across as somewhat exciting, but we’re gonna blow up the Drum.'
UT's Board of Regents voted to tear down the Frank Erwin Center to make space for Dell Medical School to expand.
There was a call for a drumroll as UT President Jay Hartzell approached the mic to introduce a plan to demolish the Frank Erwin Center. “I hope this might come across as somewhat exciting, but we’re gonna blow up the Drum,” Hartzell said at a Board of Regents meeting Wednesday. A general plan to demolish or move the Erwin Center has been on the table for around a decade, an effort to make space for Dell Medical School to expand. The aging arena was replaced by theFollowing a recommendation from the Facilities Planning and Construction Committee, the regents voted Thursday to add the demolition project to the university’s current Capital Improvement Program at a cost of $25 million. Steps to remove the arena and the nearby Denton A.
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