Baylor St. Lukes McNair Campus & Health Sciences Park

DotCom · February 23, 2023

On 12/14/2022 at 8:21 AM, Highrise Tower said:

A plan review permit was pulled yesterday for the foundation for the education building.

The internet says Travis Reagan is a PM at Linbeck. Are they the GC on this?

Highrise Tower · February 27, 2023

Pathway created to the street?

Highrise Tower · March 13, 2023

Jamail Specialty Care Center getting a new logo!!

Highrise Tower · March 27, 2023

Equipment on site. Let's go!!

Paco Jones · March 28, 2023

Highrise Tower · April 3, 2023

This week's construction update.

Highrise Tower · April 11, 2023

This 3-building campus is called Health Sciences Park.

https://www.bcm.edu/about-us/leadership/office-of-the-president/road-to-a-learning-health-system

Health Sciences Park.

This 440,000 square foot project will integrate medical education and research in a collaborative environment right next to patient care on the McNair Campus, allowing trainees to enhance their learning in the classroom by leveraging their experience in the lab and the clinic. Education space that facilitates conversation and small-group discussion and research space focused on data science and population health will augment new curriculum launching in 2023. Research centers on this campus will be dedicated to data intensive programs that support translational research and provide a foundation for data-driven training program. The first phase of Health Sciences Park, including an 11-floor tower and parking, is planned to open in 2025. This will open space on the current campus.

This month we are beginning the pre-construction work on the McNair Campus for the Health Sciences Park. This will result in relocating those parking in the surface lot adjacent to the Jamail Specialty Care Center to new parking locations. I recognize that this will be an inconvenience, but it is an important step in achieving our vision of creating the Health Sciences Park. Our parking team is working with faculty and staff to accommodate their parking needs. Initially, we are keeping part of the lot open to allow our patients adjacent parking. Going forward, we will provide valet parking to patients at the same rate as the self-parking rate.

New campus rendering provided in the article.

Construction update:

hindesky · April 11, 2023

Medical office and life sciences projects are making a big splash in Houston’s commercial real estate sector in 2023.

The 42Floors commercial real estate website ranks five Houston-area medical office buildings among the country’s 20 largest medical office projects set to open this year. Meanwhile, 42Floors identifies two Houston developments among the 20 biggest U.S. life sciences projects on tap to debut in 2023.

Leading the list of the largest U.S. medical office buildings scheduled to be completed this year is the $1.3 billion, 400,000-square-foot O’Quinn Medical Tower. Set to open April 14 at the McNair Campus of Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, the outpatient facility will adjoin the McNair Hospital Tower, which opened in 2019.

The O’Quinn tower will serve as the new clinical home of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The center is a federally designated facility for cancer care and research.

Highlights of the 12-story O’Quinn tower, southeast of the Texas Medical Center, include:

Ambulatory surgery center with 12 operating rooms and 10 endoscopy suites
80-bay setup for infusion therapy
More than 70 exam rooms
More than 850 parking spaces

In all, five medical office properties in the Houston area made the 42Floors list, representing the highest concentration of major projects in any U.S. metro area that are scheduled to open this year. The four medical office properties joining the O’Quinn tower on the list are:

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Medical Office Building 4, 159,252 square feet
Kelsey-Seybold Springwoods Village Campus, 157,983 square feet
Kelsey-Seybold Ambulatory Surgery Center in Clear Lake, 116,000 square feet
1715 Project in Friendswood, 107,000 square feet

https://houston.innovationmap.com/42floors-medical-office-houston-construction-projects-2659761947.html

Highrise Tower · April 18, 2023

Construction pictures from this week.

Highrise Tower · April 24, 2023

This week's update:

Urbannizer · May 25, 2023

https://communityimpact.com/houston/bellaire-meyerland-west-university/business/2023/05/24/baylor-college-of-medicine-begins-construction-on-new-era-100m-research-building/

https://give.bcm.edu/cullen-tower/

Baylor College of Medicine leaders officially commemorated the beginning of a three-year construction timeline for the new Lillie and Roy Cullen Tower located at the Texas Medical Center.

The details: The medical education and research facility, to date, has received $100 million in monetary gifts for its completion, according to Baylor officials.

Research space, officials said, will focus on large-scale data analytics that are vital to scientific breakthroughs.

The tower will be the new home for its School of Medicine and School of Health Professions.

The Cullen Tower will encompass 503,000 square feet and 11 floors that will offer educational space, classrooms, learning theaters, teaching labs and a simulation center to provide hands-on learning to Baylor students who are conducting clinical rotations.

Lux · May 25, 2023

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https://give.bcm.edu/cullen-tower/

DotCom · May 26, 2023

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/05/25/baylor-college-of-medicine-new-tower-construction.html

Baylor College of Medicine launches construction of new Lillie and Roy Cullen Tower

Baylor College of Medicine has officially kicked off a new project in the Texas Medical Center area.

The college held a May 24 celebration to launch construction of the new Lillie and Roy Cullen Tower. The 11-story, 503,000-square-foot building, which is projected to open in 2026, will be home to Baylor’s School of Medicine and School of Health Professions.

Baylor College of Medicine has a $150 million philanthropic goal for the project. To date, the gifts for the new tower total $100 million. The Cullen Foundation, The Cullen Trust for Health Care and The Cullen Trust for Higher Education contributed a combined $30 million, which is one of the largest combined gifts in the philanthropies' history.

“The Cullen Trust for Health Care is very honored to support this building along with The Cullen Foundation and The Cullen Trust for Higher Education,” Cullen Geiselman Muse, chair of The Cullen Trust for Health Care, said in a statement. “We cannot wait to see what new beginnings will come from inside the Lillie and Roy Cullen Tower.”

In 1947, the Cullens' $800,000 gift helped complete construction of the original Roy and Lillie Cullen Building, which was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 2015.

The new Lillie and Roy Cullen Tower will include a 500-seat atrium; dedicated space for big data analytics; small-group classrooms; studio classrooms; a large-capacity, high-tech, theater-style event space; an anatomy lab, teaching labs and a 35,000-square-foot simulation center, which will help prepare students prior to clinicals; an education innovation center with a faculty development lab; a student wellness center; lecture halls; a rooftop garden; and an elevated courtyard.

The Slam Collaborative, an architecture firm with its primary office in Connecticut, designed the new tower. Robert Pulito, president emeritus, principal and architect at the firm, said the 11th floor will be used for Baylor leadership and will have a large terrace that can be used for instructional events.

The tower will also be used as a “collaborative space for Baylor trainees and scientists to engage in ideas and innovation that will help fuel a new era of medicine, including the one-of-a-kind Center for Space Medicine,” a media kit says. The Center for Space Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine was established in 2008 and acts as a hub for space medicine faculty and staff, Translational Research Institute for Space Health investigators, students, residents, fellows, visiting scholars and others to collaborate.

Paul Klotman, Baylor College of Medicine's president, CEO and executive dean, sees the new tower as the bow on the package for student recruitment and retention, he said during the May 24 event.

“To really change the future of health, we need a space that facilitates the future,” Klotman said in a statement. “We need to have a great building to recruit great talent. Having a place where our clinical programs are located, where our data scientists are, next to a biotech development center, and having our medical students all integrated into that environment will allow them to be ready in the future for where health care is going.”

Medical knowledge doubles every six months, but this building will adapt to the advancement of knowledge and new technologies, Pulito said.

The tower is a part of the first phase of Baylor’s larger Health Sciences Park. The HSP will consist of the Cullen Tower and a dedicated Research Tower, located next to patient care at Baylor Medicine and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center on the McNair Campus.

The HSP will also be adjacent to TMC Helix Park, formerly known as TMC3, further creating opportunities for trainees and scientists to gain the ability to forge partnerships with surrounding institutions and industries, officials said.

“Now is a terrific time for Baylor,” David Baldwin, chair of the Baylor College Medicine Board of Trustees, said in a statement. “Our science has never been more critical to the world, and we really are splitting at the seams in terms of our facilities. If we don’t innovate the ways we teach, we do our students a disservice. We are excited to see how this new facility will usher in a new era of modern medical education and innovation."

Sofia Gonzalez
Reporter - Houston Business Journal

strickn · May 29, 2023

Yes, but this one goes to eleven.

strickn · May 29, 2023

I wonder when they plan to put the second tower onto this one. Would be hard to keep classes in session while flying construction materials around overhead.