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HKS, Perkins & Will To Design Massive $5B Children’s Health Campus In Dallas

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The Dallas offices of HKS and Perkins & Will have been tapped to design one of the country’s largest pediatric hospitals.

The new Children’s Health campus will include 552 beds and cover 4.5M SF. It will replace the existing hospital on Harry Hines Boulevard in the Medical District and take about six to seven years to build.

“Many of us are parents. This is more than a project for us – our kids are in this community,” Rachel Knox, studio leader of the health practice and partner at HKS, said in a statement. “While both of our firms have designed children’s hospitals around the world, it’s incredible to work on one in your own backyard.”

Children’s Health is among a growing number of health systems that have either expanded or built new campuses to accommodate explosive population growth in North Texas. More than 500,000 children have been added to the Metroplex’s population since 2010, and another 158,000 are expected to become residents by 2028, according to Children’s.

The new pediatric campus is a joint investment between Children’s and UT Southwestern Medical Center. It will increase in-patient, emergency department and operating room capacity while also housing a Level I trauma center, a new outpatient building and fetal care center.

“For more than 110 years, Children’s Health has served the children of North Texas,” President and CEO Christopher Durovich said in a statement. “This new pediatric campus will enable us to continue pioneering academic research, lifesaving treatments and industry-leading technology for pediatric patients for generations to come.”

McCarthy Building Cos. and J.T. Vaughn Construction are teaming up to build the $5B project, which is expected to break ground later this year.

 

Source: Bisnow

$138.5 Million Upgrade Underway At UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Zale Lipshy Pavilion

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When UT Southwestern Medical Center began planning renovations on its Zale Lipshy Pavilion, wheelchair-using patients took designers on a tour of the 35-year-old building’s obstacles and inconveniences.

Improving accessibility is a key driver of the Dallas hospital’s $138.5 million renovation that focuses on musculoskeletal care and rehabilitation, said Chris Rubio, chief operating officer and interim CEO of William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital at UT Southwestern.

“Everybody was extremely happy to help and eager to participate in a redesign,” Rubio said. “There’s been a lot of thought and work put into how we want to support our rehabilitation program and patients.”

Work on the building, which just began, is planned to last 18 months. Renovations will update bathrooms to meet current accessibility standards, improve flow throughput spaces, provide new rehab gym equipment and upgrade plumbing, electrical, HVAC systems and other infrastructure.

The number of beds will expand from 74 to around 130. Additional beds will accommodate general patients as well as rehab patients, expanding the capabilities of nearby UT Southwestern’s Clements University Hospital.

Operating rooms will be made significantly bigger than when they were designed in 1987, Rubio said, and will have updated HVAC systems, equipment and lighting.

“Physicians will have a much better facility to take care of their patients,” Rubio said. “We’re doing a lot of work to improve the flow of the hospital and putting that rehab musculoskeletal aspect of this building at front-of-mind as we’ve been working through design.”

Most patient care and operations should continue as usual throughout the renovations.

“We’ve got a very, very extensive plan that we’ve worked out with our clinical leaders and administrative team,” Rubio said. “We’re fortunate because the hospital is not full. We can take down whole floors and it’s not going to impact daily operations very much.”

While operating rooms undergo construction, orthopedic and spinal surgery patients will be treated at Clements University Hospital.

“ The renovations will also augment the hospital’s teaching and research efforts,” Rubio said. “It’s very important to have an academic-based program that really is leading, not just in patient care, but how we educate and do research in these areas. All of this space will support those functions.”

The University of Texas Board of Regents approved $128.5 million in bonds for the project to go along with $10 million of institutional funds.

 

Source: Dallas Morning News

Newmark Completes Sale Of 156,000SF One Mockingbird Plaza In Dallas

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Newmark announced the sale of One Mockingbird Plaza, a recently renovated, 156,104-square-foot office located in Dallas’ dynamic Medical/Love Field District. Newmark Vice Chairmen Chris Murphy, Gary Carr, Robert Hill and Director Chase Tagen represented the seller, TXRE Properties.

One Mockingbird Plaza is prominently located along Mockingbird Lane, east of I-35E and is within five minutes of Dallas Love Field and flagship campuses for UT Southwestern Medical Center, Parkland Memorial Hospital and Children’s Medical Center. The recently renovated, eight-story office building includes a modernized lobby, conference facility and fully equipped fitness center. The adjacent three-level parking garage offers convenient structured parking. One Mockingbird Plaza is 94 percent leased to a diverse base of tenants.

“One Mockingbird Plaza’s appeal is driven by its recently completed renovations, strong in-place cash flow and location within Dallas’ premier emerging marketplace and developing life sciences cluster,” said Murphy. “In addition to its three major medical campuses, the surrounding area has received significant national attention from major life science tenants and investors, alike.”

The Dallas Medical/Love Field District houses seven hospitals and teaching institutions, employs more than 37,000 people and attracts nearly three million patients annually. The district includes major flagship campuses of UT Southwestern, which ranks among the world’s top academic medical centers; Children’s Health, the leading pediatric healthcare system in North Texas and one of the largest pediatric healthcare providers in the U.S. and Parkland Health & Hospital System, one of the largest public hospital systems in the country.

 

Source:  Market Screener