HOUSTON — Texas Medical Center, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson), Texas A&M University Health Science Center and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have opened the TMC3 Collaborative Building in Houston. The building is the first project completed within Helix Park, a life sciences campus spanning 37 acres and approximately 5 million square feet of planned development.
At full build-out, the Helix Park campus will also offer a 700,000-square-foot industry research building called Dynamic One, six future industry and institutional research buildings, a hotel, a residential tower and a mixed-use building with retail space.
Helix Park will also include 18.7 acres of green space across six public parks, which will link together in a double helix configuration. Each park will comprise approximately 55,000-square feet. The parks will offer gathering space, water features, cafes, retail shops and other public spaces. Individual gardens will be available as event spaces.
The TMC3 Collaborative Building comprises 250,000 square feet at the heart of Helix Park. According to the Texas Medical Center, the property was designed to foster collaboration between academic institutions and industry partners.
The building offers purpose-built wet laboratories, as well as office and co-working space. The building will also host commercial life sciences companies, including Chicago-based venture capital firm Portal Innovations and the TMC Venture Fund. Boston-based Elkus Manfredi Architects designed the building.
“The future of life sciences in Houston is brighter than ever before as we come together to officially open the TMC3 Collaborative Building,” says Peter Pisters, president of MD Anderson. “Our clinicians and scientists work daily to advance innovations in cancer research and care — all of which will be amplified in this new environment within Helix Park that further cultivates collaboration, connectivity and creativity.”
— Channing Hamilton