Opinion: A street once associated with prisoners being escorted to courthouses, then vacancy and abandonment, is now coming back to life.
UTSA's new School of Data Science is part of the university's 10-year plan to expand its downtown presence.For decades, the 500 block of Dolorosa Street, downtown’s Street of Sorrow between South Laredo and South Flores streets, was home to wayward adults locked in jail cells. That long-forgotten and blighted block is now being transformed as the centerpiece of, where university students will now acquire the skills and knowledge to unlock their own promising futures.
-turned-privately run jail for federal inmates awaiting trial, after an adjacent city-owned warehouse and eyesore had been demolished. A third lot to the west, which is a former city-owned parking lot, completes what today are UTSA’s three contiguous properties on Dolorosa, the result of an innovative collaboration forged by the university, the City of San Antonio and Bexar County.Success! You're on the list.
in the coming years, they will walk confidently into a bright future, ready to take jobs in an economy and society increasingly reliant on and redefined by data.
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