A VISION FOR GROWTH

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A VISION FOR GROWTH
A 50 Year Master Plan
For the Institutions of the Texas Medical
Center Houston, Texas
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A Vision for Growth
Planning Objectives
The TMC Campus for the Next 50 Years Should

• Provide the highest quality healing
  environment for patients and their families
• Provide the highest quality learning
  environment
• Reflect a commitment to multi-discipline
  collaboration, institutional partnerships and
  the exchange of ideas in research and
  education
• Demonstrate a stewardship of the land

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A Vision for Growth
Planning Objectives
The TMC Campus for the Next 50 Years Should

• Accommodate critical future growth
• Set parking priorities and accommodations
  consistent with planned growth
• Ensure access with an emphasis on transit
• Integrate mixed use (live / work) into the TMC
  community
• Expand, enhance and support initiatives that
  contribute to the common good

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A Vision for Growth
Current Land Ownership 1999
Institutional Boundaries
Baylor College of Medicine City of Houston Harris
County Hospital District Memorial Hermann Hospital
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Reliant Energy Houston Academy of Medicine
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Houston Independent School District The Institute
of Religion
The Methodist Hospital Prairie View AM
Rice University St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital
12 13 14 15 16 17
State of Texas Institute of Biosciences and
Technology Texas Childrens Hospital
Texas Medical Center Thermal Energy Cooperative
TMH / BCM (Joint Ownership) Texas Womens
University
18 19 20 21 22
The Institute for Rehabilitation
Research University of Houston The University of
Texas Houston Health Science Center The
University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center U.S. Dept. of Veterans
Affairs Vencor
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YMCA
Ronald McDonald House The Hospice at TMC Houston
Department of Health Human
Services Diagnostic Center Hospital Shriners
Hospital Houston Community College Gulf Coast
Regional Blood Center
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30 31 32 33
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A Vision for Growth
Scale Comparisons
TMC as a Medical City
Chicago Loop Chicago, Illinois
Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio
Texas Medical Center Main Campus Houston, Texas
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A Vision for Growth
TMC and the Region
Integrate TMC Planning within a Regional Context
Downtown
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• Business District
• University of Houston
• Ballpark
• Convention Center

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TMC should be involved with the significant
growth planned for all five districts and the
creation of a comprehensive growth strategy
Midtown
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• Commercial
• Residential
• Houston Community College

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Museum District
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• Museum of Fine Arts
• Rice University
• Hermann Park
• Residential

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Texas Medical Center Campus
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Astrodomain
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• Astrodome
• Astroworld
• Residential

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A Vision for Growth
Regional Access and Open Space
Improve Access
Improve future access through strategic
roadway, highway and wayfinding
improvements Strengthen TMC entrances
Clarify vehicular access from airports and
major interstates
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A Vision for Growth
Regional Access and Open Space
StrengthenPublic Transit
Increase public transit ridership
Strengthen and expand direct regional and
local bus routes to the TMC Campus from
surrounding communities Develop and pursue
new transit corridor alternatives Expand
the shuttle bus network between universities and
the TMC Campus
New Transit Link
University Shuttle Bus Link
New TMC Transit Center
New TMC Peripheral Parking Site
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A Vision for Growth
Regional Access and Open Space
Expand Open Space
Connect and extend the open spaces along the
Brays Bayou Support Harris County Flood
control initiatives Use the park system to
connect residential neighborhoods and universities
Main Street Corridor
Brays Bayou Park
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A Vision for Growth
The Texas Medical Center Campus
Establish a framework to guide future growth and
unify the campus lands
Main Street District
H. Markley Crosswell District
Main Campus
W. Leland Anderson District

• Unify the campus lands with new roads and open
  spaces
• Develop a series of distinct districts, each
  with a particular set of uses and identity
• Each district should connect to each other

South Campus
Veterans Affairs District
Smith Land District
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A Vision for Growth
Streets and Access
Ensure Future Access to All Districts

• Strengthen and extend North/ South and East/
  West streets to link campus lands together
• Strengthen campus entries

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A Vision for Growth
Street and Access
Strengthen and Extend North / South Streets

• Link campus lands together
• Extend Bertner Avenue South across the Brays
  Bayou with a new bridge
• Connect Cambridge Street to N. MacGregor Drive
  across the Brays Bayou with a new bridge

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A Vision for Growth
Street and Access
Strengthen and Extend East / West Streets

• Link campus lands to adjacent member institutions
• Extend and connect Herman Pressler Street to
  Galen Drive

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A Vision for Growth
Streets and Access
Improve Existing and Build New Bridges

• New Bridge at Cambridge Street and N. MacGregor
  Drive
• New Bridge at Bertner Ave. extension
• Coordinate Brays Bayou flood control initiatives
  at new and existing bridges

New Bridge at MacGregor / Cambridge connection
New Bridge at Bertner Ave. extension
Existing Bridges Need improvements
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A Vision for Growth
Open Space
Strengthen the Campus Setting

• Define the Brays Bayou corridor as a linear
  park through the TMC campus
• Identify parks and healing gardens within
  each district
• Create landscape setbacks from all residential
  areas
• Develop storm water detention in park designs

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A Vision for Growth
Open Space
Landscaped Boulevards

• Support landscaped and shaded boulevards,
  campus roads and building setbacks
• Develop a new north-south landscaped boulevard
  along the Bertner Avenue extension

University Blvd.
N. MacGregor Dr.
Holcombe Blvd.
Cambridge St.
Bertner Ave.
Fannin St.
Almeda Rd.
Old Spanish Trail
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A Vision for Growth
Transit
Establish a Comprehensive Approach to Public
Transit
Integrate stops with skywalk locations
Increase public transit ridership
Coordinate Main Street transit alternatives with
projected TMC growth Coordinate transit stops
with access to skywalk / air bridge system
Coordinate transit stops with peripheral parking
locations
New TMC Transit Center
Stops / Connections to skywalk
Access to New TMC peripheral parking site
Skywalk
Potential Transit Route
Alternative Transit Route
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A Vision for Growth
Transit
Strengthen,Expand and Coordinate Local Bus
Routes
Potential new route
Integrate stops with air bridge locations
Expand Metro regional bus routes directly to
the TMC Campus Develop the Metro Bus Transit
Center Utilize point to point Metro service
from peripheral parking locations to the main
campus
New TMC Transit Center
Potential new route
Stops / Connections to skywalk
Bus Routes
Potential new route
Proposed New Route
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A Vision for Growth
Parking Principles
Establish a Comprehensive Parking Strategy
Main Campus

• Prioritize Visitor and Patient Parking in the
  Main Campus
• Improve convenience for patients and visitors
• Incorporate below grade parking into all new
  development
• Strengthen shuttle service connections from
  peripheral lots
• Develop a more direct point to point shuttle
  system

Visitor, patient, physician parking at Main Campus
Peripheral Parking
Strengthen shuttle connections from peripheral
lots to core
Peripheral Parking
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A Vision for Growth
Parking Initiatives
Projected Parking Demand

• Promote public transit in order to reduce
  overall parking demand

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A Vision for Growth
Utilities TECO Expansion
Expand Utility Infrastructure
TECO Expansion Option 1
Potential Satellite Plant Location
Expand existing South Main Plant

• Expand existing plants, construct new large
  plant south of the Brays Bayou

Existing TECO Main Plant
Potential New Large Plant Location
TECO Expansion Option 2
V.A. Medical Center Central Plant
Potential Satellite Plant Location

• Create a distributed network of satellite plants

Option 1 Large TECO Plants
Option 2 Smaller Satellite Plants
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A Vision for Growth
Sustainability
Demonstrate Leadership in Environmental Quality
And Energy Efficiency

• Implement regional flood control
• Promote pedestrian walking environment
• Introduce a sustainable landscape
• Encourage a mixed use environment
• Improve energy efficiency of campus facilities
• Safeguard water
• Enhance indoor environmental quality
• Reduce solid waste

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A Vision for Growth
Main Campus
Main Campus Uses
In-Patient

• Reinforce the concept of central academic uses
  surrounded by a ring of patient care
• Locate uses which require high volumes of
  parking at the perimeter of the Main Campus

Multi- Institutional Academic and Research
Out-Patient, Support, Mixed-Use
Out-Patient, Support, Mixed-Use
Academic and Research
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A Vision for Growth
Main Campus
Campus Streets

• Strengthen the network of connected campus
  streets
• Require new buildings to respect the street
  framework neither closing them off nor spanning
  over them

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A Vision for Growth
Main Campus
Skywalk Network

• Create a continuous network of air bridges and
  skywalks
• Integrate public transit and campus bus stops
  with vertical linkages to the skywalk network
• Promote public uses at the skywalk level
• Develop security guidelines for the sky-walk
  system providing clear public and private
  separations

Vertical linkages to transit stops
Expand air bridge/skywalk network
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A Vision for Growth
Main Campus Core
Unify Patient Care, Research and Education
University of Texas HSC Medical School
Memorial Hermann Hospital

• Create identifiable front doors for all
  institutions engaging the park
• Future development should maintain view
  corridors to surrounding institutions
• Strengthen the Main Campus Park unifying all
  campus institutions

Jesse Jones Library
Main Campus Park
Texas Womans University
Baylor College of Medicine
The Methodist Hospital
New Commons Building
St. LukesEpiscopal Hospital
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center
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A Vision for Growth
New Research Center and Commons
Ground Floor Plan

• Organize commons and lab buildings to provide
  clear identities, strengthen major public spaces,
  and frame streets
• Establish a uniform building height to strengthen
  urban character and improve environmental
  conditions

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A Vision for Growth
New Research Center and Commons
Typical Floor Plan

• Provide a multi-institutional, state-of-the-art
  research center
• Facilitate inter-institutional collaboration
• Establish a uniform building height

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New Research Center and Commons
Skywalk and Access Plan

• Provide a nexus for campus skywalk connections
  associated with the new Commons Building
• Locate common or public-oriented functions at
  grade and sky-walk levels

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A Vision for Growth
New Research Center and Commons
Below Grade Plan

• Provide parking below grade
• Allow for phased parking development

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Illustrative Plan
Programmed Expansion through year 2015