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• Originally Amigoland was a theme park which was proposed in the early 1970's near the Downtown of Brownsville, Texas. Situated at the end of the bridge which crossed into the United States from Matamoros, Mexico, it promised to be a place of fun and commerce and where two countries could come together to celebrate their uniqueness based on both geography and shared history.............and a bit of economic development. With more plans and talk than money in hand, the theme park never came to be. The site eventually was developed, becoming the Amigoland Mall, but was soon shuttered due to a bad location (cut off by railroad tracks and stalled train cars), a peso devaluation, and a newer competing mall which was better located. The once dead mall now finds new life as a satellite center to The University of Texas at Brownsville, one of the fastest growing universities in the Texas State System. While things didn't end up as originally planned (things seldom ever do), this piece of land which has bounced back and forth from Mexico to the United States several times, is still called Amigoland to this day.

• Article written by Christopher William Golden
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