Construction continues on the site of the new Arkansas State University campus in Mexico. The privately funded project is being run through a business foundation in Mexico called Arkansas State University Campus Queretaro. The group has purchased over two thousand acres for a comprehensive community development plan near Queretaro. The college campus will be the focus of the project, but it will also include commercial, residential, and recreational components for up to 70-thousand residents. A press release from Arkansas State University says substantial earth work has been done over much of where the campus will be, and steel beams are going up for the Student Union. Additionally, multiple levels of infrastructure are also being installed at this time. Mexican officials expect completion of the first phase of the campus to take place in 2017. The first phase of academic space for the campus is being designed to accommodate at least five-thousand students, with a goal of one-thousand students in the first year. Arkansas State becomes the first comprehensive American university in Mexico that has an American-style campus. The total cost of the entire campus is about $75-million dollars. You can see a video that highlights construction progress here.