Architecture Students Create Boarding School Designs

To assist with fundraising for a private, faith-based boarding school proposed to serve socially and economically disadvantaged youth from the Como neighborhood in southwest Fort Worth, Texas A&M students recently crafted real estate proposals for the project, including design concepts, construction schedules and operating cost estimates.

“These kids need something better,” said Randy Brown, founder and board chairman of Rivertree Academy, formerly known as Building, Uniting and Restoring Neighborhoods, or B.U.R.N., Ministries, a nondenominational Christian outreach organization that funds programs providing opportunities benefiting youth in the high-crime, low-income Como area.

“These children,” Brown said, “are living in an environment that is toxic to their souls.”

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