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A number of dierent institutions are joining forces to bring the TMC3 campus to life, including Baylor University, Texas A&M University, the University of Texas and MD Anderson. A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH SOURCE: TEXAS MEDICAL CENTERCOMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER

INDUSTRY BUILDINGS: Multitenant buildings that will be leased to commercial enterprises, such as pharmaceutical rms, biotech companies and investment partners 1

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Memorial Hermann Ben Taub Hospital

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St. Luke's Health

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BUILDING: A four-story

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250,000-square- foot building that will house MD Anderson, TMC oces and several universities HOTEL: 521 rooms with 65,000-square- foot conference center and 350- unit residential tower 3

Member institutions

Texas Children's Hospital

Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

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Baylor St. Luke's research

The Woman's Hospital of Texas

Baylor College of Medicine School

STATUS UPDATE

Work has been underway on the rst phase of the TMC3 project for just over one year.

April 2018: TMC3 project announced by Texas Medical Center alongside the Baylor College of Medicine

May 2019: Design unveiled and architect named for the project

December 2020: Work begins on TMC3 campus

Fall 2023: Most of project’s rst phase will be completed, including collaborative life sciences building

HELIX GARDENS: Five public parks, each roughly 55,000 square feet, will oer tree canopies, water features and walkways.

are being funded by bonds, he said. “Each of the tenants of the parcels pay into that,” he said. Ongoingconstruction The TMC3 land is slated to become one of the largest collaborative life sciences research facilities in the nation, according to the TMC. The eort is being led by ve founding members: the Bay- lor College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Sci- ence Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Texas Medical Center. Construction eorts are broken into two phases. Phase 1 includes a 50,000-square- foot mixed-use facility; a 521- room hotel and a 350-unit residential tower; a building for member institutions; and the rst of four industry buildings, which will house research labs, oce space and shared common areas. “You haven’t seen anything like this done where you have multiple buildings and parks

beingbuilt at the same time for dierent entities,” said Kristen Kupperman, TMC’s director of campus operations. Phase 2, a timeline forwhich has not been announced, includes the Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Research Center and the new Baylor College of Medicine School. The TMC3 Collaborative Building started going up in June and should be the rst building to reach completion by August 2023, saidMark Sar- degna, an architect with Elkus Manfredi, the rm hired to The Texas Medical Center expects nearly 30,000 new permanent jobs to become available over the next seven years as a result of the proj- ect, including 23,000 in Harris County specically, Middle- ton said. Additionally, more than 17,000 construction jobs have already materialized, generating approximately $3.25 billion across Houston. The project is expected to bring in $5.5 billion worth design the campus. Impact onHouston

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element to the city that could help it parallel Harvard Uni- versity in Boston and the University of California, San Francisco in Silicon Valley, said Torrey Adams, senior director of life sciences with the Greater Houston Partnership. “This is certainly in line with the pathway to create this third coast in the life sci- ences and health care [indus- try],” Adams said. The new addition to the medical center is being built between Bertner Avenue and Staordshire Boulevard just south of Brays Bayou, accord- ing to a master plan released by the TMC. A groundbreak- ing was held last fall, although construction has been ongo- ing since December 2020. The project is being funded by various sources. TMC invested $40 million into a collaborative building, while each partner institution con- tributed $36 million, TMC’s Chief Operating Ocer Isaac Middleton said. Other parcels

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What sets the site apart from similar life sciences proj- ects in other major U.S. cities is the collaborative eort, Adams said. Historically, the Houston health care sector can be characterized by dierent entities operating in silos, Adams said. The new proj- ect opens the door to smaller commercial enterprises that may have previously encoun- tered barriers to working in the TMC, he said. “No one is feeling like, ‘I’d never be able to set up shop in that area,’” Adams said of how the new project changes the TMC. “Now I have the sup- port; I have the space. I have all of the things now that have been existing in the TMC, and I get to add mine to it.”

of investment in total to the state, Middleton said. Adams said he has been a part of several site visits with com- panies that are considering relocating to the area, includ- ing organizations he said would have never considered Houston before the TMC3 was announced. “It probably is going to bring more jobs than even we are projecting,” Adams said. Collaboration iskey The goal of TMC3 is to fos- ter a collaborative environ- ment, ocials said. Within the TMC3 Collaborative Building, four of the found- ing members—MD Anderson, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, the Univer- sity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the TMC—will be provided a syn- ergetic house for research, according to project plans.

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