UT Austin Medical School Plan Unveiled - Page 18

KevinFromTexas · #**341** Posted **Feb 28, 2023, 3:31 AM**

There was an FAA filing today for a 320 foot tower crane at the location of Dell Seton Medical Center.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...73403094&row=5

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Work Schedule: 08/06/2023 to 02/06/2025

This lists the building height as 232 feet.
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...73567419&row=7

The ATX · #**342** Posted **Feb 28, 2023, 10:44 AM**

The hospital building at 15th & Red River was built to allow vertical expansion which is what the permits are for.

drummer · #**343** Posted **Feb 28, 2023, 4:12 PM**

^^ I always thought that seemed short. Didn't realize that they built it with a future vertical expansion in mind.

IluvATX · #**344** Posted **Feb 28, 2023, 4:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by drummer

^^ I always thought that seemed short. Didn't realize that they built it with a future vertical expansion in mind.

Surprisingly they do that with most hospitals, though not really with any other type of building.

paul78701 · #**345** Posted **Feb 28, 2023, 5:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

The hospital building at 15th & Red River was built to allow vertical expansion which is what the permits are for.

How tall is that building now? This sounds like they are going to more than double the height.

drummer · #**346** Posted **Feb 28, 2023, 7:17 PM**

St. David's Round Rock is also seeing some vertical expansion. I didn't realize they did that with most hospitals (not sure if they did that with the Round Rock one or not, though they are going up with it).

Lobotomizer · #**347** Posted **Mar 1, 2023, 12:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by paul78701

How tall is that building now? This sounds like they are going to more than double the height.

According to the info on the previous page the original plans called for 4 more floors on top of the existing hospital with and additional 140 beds. The existing hospital is 10 floors with 211 beds.

A 14 floor hospital being 232 feet tall sounds plausible, but maybe they decided to expand by another floor or two.

Lobotomizer · #**348** Posted **Mar 1, 2023, 12:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by drummer

St. David's Round Rock is also seeing some vertical expansion. I didn't realize they did that with most hospitals (not sure if they did that with the Round Rock one or not, though they are going up with it).

St. David's did this with their South Austin Hospital as well.

Riverranchdrone · #**349** Posted **Mar 1, 2023, 12:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by Lobotomizer

St. David's did this with their South Austin Hospital as well.

The North Austin Hospital off of mopac and south of Parmer just build a huge 6 story wing on the side of it.

KevinFromTexas · #**350** Posted **Mar 1, 2023, 7:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

The hospital building at 15th & Red River was built to allow vertical expansion which is what the permits are for.

Yeah, I remember that. The heights I had recorded for that expansion were 14 floors and 220 feet. The current height of Dell Seton is 162 feet with 10 floors.

drummer · #**351** Posted **Mar 1, 2023, 6:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverranchdrone

The North Austin Hospital off of mopac and south of Parmer just build a huge 6 story wing on the side of it.

Yeah, that was the women's center. All of my kids were born there.

bismuth96 · #**352** Posted **Mar 2, 2023, 1:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by IluvATX

Surprisingly they do that with most hospitals, though not really with any other type of building.

There's been a few vertical expansions over in the Texas Medical Center in Houston over the past few years/decades. I'd never really thought of that being a medical building-specific thing, but yeah, seems to be for the most part. Pretty cool and fun to see happen with Austin's medical complex "skyline".

ATX2030 · #**353** Posted **Apr 10, 2023, 5:16 PM**

Ascension Seton invests $280M to revamp, expand Dell Seton Medical Center
by: Kelsey Thompson

Posted: Apr 10, 2023 / 10:32 AM CDT

Updated: Apr 10, 2023 / 10:32 AM CDT

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...edical-center/

drummer · #**354** Posted **Apr 10, 2023, 9:27 PM**

^^ Some good renderings in the article. Cool to see. Thanks for sharing!

freerover · #**355** Posted **Apr 11, 2023, 12:03 AM**

Is the Erwin center still doing events? When can we blow that thing up?

Urbannizer · #**356** Posted **May 1, 2023, 9:13 PM**

Frank Erwin Center demolition expected by end of 2024

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The UT System Board of Regents will meet this week and may approve an amendment for the demolition project. A $25 million demolition will make way for a Dell Medical School expansion, according to UT System documents.

The project entered its demolition phase in January. A “construction notice to proceed” is expected in June. Final completion is expected in October 2024.

Urbannizer · #**357** Posted **Nov 28, 2023, 2:55 AM**

Demo has begun:

zrx299 · #**358** Posted **Nov 28, 2023, 4:01 AM**

1950-60s "urban renewal"/highway planning and 1970s Brutalist architecture is such an assault on the eyes, and scourge on every American city... it can't be deleted fast enough.

Armybrat · #**359** Posted **Dec 1, 2023, 2:07 PM**

I thought it was pretty cool when it was completed.
Something totally different for that part of town back then.

Mopacs · #**360** Posted **Dec 14, 2023, 4:56 AM**

I got some aerial shots of the Erwin Center this weekend.