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Construction work has started at the historic Dallas Municipal Courts building, which could become the home of theUniversity of North Texas Dallas College of Law. The city-owned building was made infamous by the shooting of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The construction underway is funded from a $14 million city bond set aside about nine years ago as part of the deal to provide a home for a public law school. Another $2 million pledged to the school from the city has yet to be funded. The city's work on the building entails repairing the roof of the building and addressing some of the deferred maintenance on the property, which will protect the municipal building for the law school to come in at a later date. "We are very happy to see they are moving forward to protect the building," UNT Chancellor Lee Jackson told theDallas Business Journal."We have a partner that has put significant local funds and really gone to work." At the same time, Jackson and other UNT leaders are headed to Austin to ask the Texas legislature for $56 million to complete the renovations at the Dallas Municipal Courts building to move the law school from its current location at the UNT System building on Main Street to the adjacent facility. The UNT System has beensearching for the funds for the project for quite some time. The university system is also asking the legislature for $60 for a library and student success center at UNT's Dallas campus, $80 million for a new research building at UNT's Health Science Center at Fort Worth, and $70 million for a visual arts and design facility on UNT's campus in Denton. More info here: http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2015/03/11/work-begins-on-downtown-dallas-law-school-building.html