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    Has worked stopped? Haven't seen any progress in a few weeks.
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    Notice of Variance Request posted.
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    UTHealth wrote an article about this demolition in December 2019. Mentions future site development, but also a temporary surface lot for a portion of the property. https://dentistry.uth.edu/about/news-media/story.htm?id=c168e4f3-95eb-42c2-b545-012e7ce26835 The building that from 1954 to 2012 was home to The University of Texas Dental Branch (now known as UTHealth School of Dentistry) is scheduled for demolition. The UT System Board of Regents has approved $11.3 million for the project, with an estimated completion date of July 2020. When the School of Dentistry moved to a new facility at 7500 Cambridge St. in 2012, the Dental Branch Building, located at 6516 M.D. Anderson Blvd., was sold to UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Demolition will be by deconstruction, rather than implosion, and will include modifying an existing flood wall system, shoring, removing basement walls, protecting buried underground utilities, and analyzing the capacity for existing infrastructure to support future site development. The work is expected to include abatement of hazardous materials, including asbestos. A portion of the site will be developed as surface parking, on an interim basis, to support valet services for MD Anderson’s Main Building complex. Designed by architects Mackie & Kamrath and built by Manhattan Construction Company of Texas, the Dental Branch Building was soon nicknamed as “The Pink Palace” because of the pink, brown and gray marble exterior and an interior with such luxuries as air-conditioning. The entire project, including land and equipment, cost $6.4 million. The building was enlarged in 1988. Before the Dental Branch Building was sold, several slabs of marble were saved and have been turned into mementos. Details on how to get one will be publicized in the coming months.
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    Going up.
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    This is large.
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    Texas A&M names $550M TMC campus in Houston https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2020/05/19/texas-a-m-university-tmc-campus-name.html
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    Plat name is Edloe Acres.
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    Houston developer buys land from Exelon to expand 4,000-acre development https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2020/05/18/mccord-generation-park-exelon-land-acquisition.html
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    kmd architects did a master plan for MDACC once. https://www.kmdarchitects.com/md-anderson The challenge for the design team (KMD in association with FKP, Houston) was to create a new paradigm for cancer care and a plan that would minimize the institutional effect of its daunting size while being able to adapt to technological advances in the equipment and treatment of cancer patients. The team succeeded in constructing an inviting and soothing ambulatory care setting with long-term usability and value. The ACB was envisioned as an integral piece of a ‘campus’ designed in the manner of an Italian Village with a central piazza. The master plan called for a series of medium-height buildings organized around the central village green, the ACB being the first of four buildings that will surround a central “healing garden”. The proposed campus is on Pressler between Bertner & Fannin. This would take out the mentioned surface lot and half of the greenspace called MD Anderson Prairie. Pressler Street Garage 2 is apart of the Phase 4.
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    Took a walk around today. Loving the landscape. The front desk and overhead lighting is amazing as well.
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