{"id":175287,"date":"2012-03-28T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=175287"},"modified":"2012-03-29T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:58:08","slug":"city-of-tyler-annexes-uthsct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=175287","title":{"rendered":"City of Tyler Annexes UTHSCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=175291\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-175291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/03\/thumb_UTHSCT1-150x109.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_UTHSCT\" width=\"150\" height=\"109\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-175291\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 The Tyler City Council Wednesday approved the annexation of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. Formerly the area was just north of city limits in Smith County. According to KETK, the annexation covers nearly 600 acres of property.<\/p>\n<p>The process of annexing the campus began in January. \u201cAs illustrated in the Industry Growth Initiative plan, the higher education and Healthcare industries are critical components of Tyler\u2019s local economy,\u201d said Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass at that time. \u201cHealthcare provides for more than 25,000 jobs in our region and has an economic impact estimated at $3.1 billion. By annexing the UTHSCT into Tyler city limits, we will be taking an important step in continuing to support and grow these industries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The voluntary annexation of the campus was initiated by representatives of UTHSCT and is allowed under the State Annexation Law in the Texas Local Government Code. \u201cWe are pleased to see this process move forward,\u201d said UTHSCT President Dr. Kirk Calhoun in January. \u201cWe look forward to becoming a part of Tyler not only in name, but as a partner in our city\u2019s future growth and development.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a major step forward in the growth of our City,\u201d said City Manager Mark McDaniel. \u201cHealthcare education is so important to maintaining our high levels of medical care in East Texas and equally as valuable in providing jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 The Tyler City Council Wednesday approved the annexation of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. Formerly the area was just north of city limits in Smith County. According to KETK, the annexation covers nearly 600 acres of property. The process of annexing the campus began in January. \u201cAs illustrated in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=175287\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City of Tyler Annexes UTHSCT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 09:45:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175287"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175691,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175287\/revisions\/175691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}