If a second tower does go ahead, it would be a significant boost to Baylor St. Luke’s two-campus strategy in the TMC.
HOUSTON — Increasing patient numbers in the Texas Medical Center are driving Baylor St. Luke’s to expand its footprint.
Plans for a new tower are on the horizon at the system’s McNair Campus, Dr. Brad Lembcke, president of Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, told the Houston Business Journal in a recent interview.
Lembcke said it’s too early to disclose any further specifics, especially as Baylor St. Luke’s completes projects for both the McNair Campus and its legacy campus on Bertner Avenue.
If a second tower does go ahead, it would be a significant boost to Baylor St. Luke’s two-campus strategy in the TMC, reversing previously reported plans to demolish the legacy Bertner Avenue campus.
“With Covid-19 and other things, there was a pause on some of the construction and the plans to make that transition to a single campus in a shorter time,” Lembcke said.
The most recent tower that opened at the McNair Campus was the $426 million O’Quinn Medical Tower, which opened in 2023.
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