This innovative education and economic resource will feature 163,000sf+/- of improvements constructed on 60 of the 1,585ac Gibbs Ranch Education and Research Center. It will serve college students, vocational students, high school students, industry pontificators, event exhibitors and attendees, and rodeo competitors and enthusiasts. It will benefit students, the agricultural workforce, the agriculture industry, and the economic growth along the IH-45 corridor and 15 counties in East Texas that produces 67% of the 21,480 students attending SHSU.