In 1998, the Texas A&M Agricultural Research Center sought assistance in expanding its wheat seed processing and storage facility at a cost of $250,000. The expansion would result in an increase in the use of West Texas A&M graduate students and enhance the Experiment Station’s competitiveness for research. Texas A&M successfully raised $240,000 from other sources, and requested the last $10,000 as a grant from the Amarillo EDC. Texas A&M also sought assistance in expanding its Research Center by 4,000 square feet at a cost of $600,000. That expansion would increase employment at the center by 59 full-time employees. Three hundred thousand dollars of the cost of construction was raised from other sources, and the Amarillo EDC provided a $310,000 grant to fully fund both the seed processing and storage and Research Center projects.
