Downtown’s Medical District: Dell Medical School Announced (Master Plan Drawings)

The University of Texas in Austin announced its campus master plan today, which includes the unveiling of the Dell Medical School after months of speculation. Here are the basics followed by some exciting renderings.

• The Dell Medical School is expected to open in summer 2016.
• The main campus has another 6.6 million square feet of development potential, and is including Urban Rail as part of its planning.
• Increased density in the central campus could accommodate about half of that potential growth.
• Phase I would require the replacement of the Penick-Allison Tennis Center.
• The Medical District will be built out in three phases, starting with a $334.5 million project that installs four new buildings: an academic building, medical office building, research building and teaching hospital.
• Total Medical District development: 4.4 million square feet.
• Within five years the UMCB (University Medical Center Brackenridge), Blackstock Family Health Center and Hospital Heliport will be demolished.
• Within six to 15 years the Erwin Center, Denton A. Cooley Pavilion, Collections Deposit Library and Cyberknife facilities will be demolished.
• The medical office building could be a joint venture with a private developer.
• Red River would need to be moved at 15th St. to make room for the hospital, which UT would pay for.