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Texas A&M To Build $546M Complex In The Texas Medical Center

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The Texas A&M University system just announced that it will spend more than half a billion dollars to build a new complex in the Texas Medical Center.

The $546M price tag will include the construction of two new towers, as well as the purchase and renovation of a third building. Texas A&M has already acquired 1020 Holcombe Blvd., an 18-story building that is undergoing renovations. The building will be used for the university’s two-degree Engineering Medicine program, which will allow students to earn a master’s degree in engineering from Texas A&M, as well as a medical degree from the university’s Health Science Center.

The purchase and renovations are expected to cost $145M, and the overall project is expected to be completed by the summer. In addition, Texas A&M will build two new towers: a student housing project, and a mixed-use development for medical offices and retail. The mixed-use building is an integrated medical plaza. The 30-story, 587K SF building will contain 72K SF of retail space and 8,700 SF of green space, and will also include a 13-story parking garage and a grocer.

“We’re looking for a grocer for this because we’re trying to support our EnMed students and our Prairie View students. This is the catalyst, and have them a nice, safe place to live,” Texas A&M Vice Chancellor of Business Affairs Phillip Ray said at a press conference.

The medical plaza is expected to break ground in the fall of 2021, and completion is slated for June 2023. The student housing project will be a 19-story, 365K SF building with 572 units and 704 beds. It will include a 1.2M SF parking garage with 3,444 spaces. The project is expected to break ground in October, and is slated for completion in June 2022. Both projects will be constructed through public-private partnerships. The combined price tag of the two new projects is $401M.

Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp told attendees at the press conference that the new complex would help bring the assets of the Texas Medical Center to the rest of the state.

“What we want to do is take the future of medicine, which is embodied in the Engineering Medicine program, where really smart kids are going to become the developers of the medical care technology of the future,” Sharp said.

“We’ve done a little over $2B in P3, privately funded projects during Chancellor John Sharp’s tenure, and this will be the largest one,” Ray said.

Sharp has been chancellor since 2011. The developer of the P3 projects is Medistar Corp. American Triple I Partners, founded by Texas A&M alumni Henry Cisneros, is part of the financing team. EYP led the design of the renovated building, while Kirksey Architecture designed the two new towers. Linbeck Group will construct the two new buildings, while Vaughn Construction is the contractor for 1020 Holcombe Blvd.

 

Source: Bisnow

Dallas-Fort Worth Tops The Nation In Medical Office Building Development

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Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) had the nation’s highest rate of medical office building (MOB) completions from Q3 2017 to Q2 2018, according to a new report from CBRE.

MOB construction deliveries totaled 954K SF during that period, with another 95K SF of medical space still under construction as of the last half of 2018.mob

“Even development that robust doesn’t add up to overbuilding, at least not yet,” according to CBRE Senior Vice President, Global Workplace Solutions Jordan Buis. “Although we’ve seen growth in DFW healthcare developments over the past decade, I believe the market is stable. We’ve seen healthy demand from tenants to keep up with the new supply, and developers aren’t overbuilding. The population boom in DFW is driving the need for new medical product, especially in the suburbs.”

The recent volume of deliveries continues a longer-term pattern of growth for the Metroplex, the report said. From Q1 2010 to Q2 2018, DFW delivered more than 2.7M SF of new medical office space, second only to the Houston market, which delivered in excess of 3.5M SF of MOB space in the same period.  Medical office rents in the Metroplex increased 2.1% from Q2 2017 to Q2 2018 to $27.43/SF, even as the vacancy rate rose 180 basis points to 23.3% over the same period.

“As rents continue to rise and reimbursements continue to decline for the healthcare providers, it will be interesting to see if there’s a point of inflection in the near future,” Buis said.

The surge of MOB development in the Metroplex comes as health systems nationally are increasingly turning to outpatient centers due to higher capital costs and a surge in high-deductible health plans requiring patients to pay larger out-of-pocket amounts.

The total number of outpatient centers nationwide grew more than 50% from 2005 to 2016 to about 41,000 properties, according to CBRE. Outpatient center employment has more than doubled since 2003, and grew 3.5% year over year in October 2018, compared with 2% annual growth in overall healthcare employment.

Medical City Frisco Expansion (PHOTO CREDIT: Medical City Frisco)

In DFW, the most recent example of outpatient development — though close to a traditional hospital — just broke ground at Medical City Frisco.   The facility will be a medical office building with an ambulatory surgery center totaling about 150K SF and connected to Medical City‘s main hospital by a skybridge. The development will include 11 operating rooms, 53 patient rooms and office space. The $37M project is expected to be complete by spring 2020,”

“The development is anticipating future demand for leading-edge medical treatment,” Medical City CEO Charles Gressle said in a statement.

Last year, the hospital expanded its women’s services unit, which includes 13 delivery and recovery rooms, and features a six-bed, Level II neonatal intensive care unit with three dedicated cesarean section operating rooms.

 

Source: Bisnow