SMU gets Green Light to develop Mrs. Baird's site

[centexstang]

where the courts are now is prime land and can be used for student purposes. Bairds is contaminated and Dallas will allow limited uses only.

[b_caesar]

where the courts are now is prime land and can be used for student purposes. Bairds is contaminated and Dallas will allow limited uses only.

And SMU isn't currently interested in paying the bigger bucks to get it cleaned up.

[Dutch]

What happened to the highrise dorm plan for Mrs. Bairds???

Why does SMU need it's own data center?

Putting residential would be very expensive due to all the chemicals that have been used on that site (for Baird's plus multiple dry cleaners). It would require a complete excavation. The 'dorms' will now be on the north side of Mockingbird, somewhere behind the shopping center.

Not necessarily. I haven't seen the TCEQ reports for the site, and I'm just guessing you haven't either. But if the landowner puts a well restriction on the site saying no groundwater will be pumped for consumption, then no problem. That's not to say that some remediation won't be necessary, but it will greatly reduce the acceptable PPM of any toxins they do discover. So they won't have to clean it to the same degree as they would if they needed wells (Dallas has a pretty good municipal water system in place)