A joint venture consisting of Turner Construction, Byrne Construction Services and Straight Line Management broke ground last month on a $550 million hospital in San Antonio, Texas, according to a news release from New York City-based Turner.
The University Health Palo Alto Hospital campus will feature a state-of-the-art, five-story tower that will include an emergency room, labor and delivery suites, neonatal intensive care unit, operating rooms, inpatient rooms and an attached medical office building to serve the rapidly growing area of Southside San Antonio.
The hospital is expected to be open to patients in 2027, according to Turner. Both Byrne Construction and Straight Line are based in Texas.
The facility is adjacent to Texas A&M University-San Antonio. The university is also currently building a $45 million College of Education and Public Health that will accelerate the training of healthcare professionals and expand medical research in the area, according to a separate news release.
Palo Alto Hospital owner University Health, a political subdivision of the State of Texas, is the only locally owned and operated health system in San Antonio and Bexar County, one of the fastest growing counties in Texas. By 2030, the area is expected to be home to 3.2 million people in Bexar and seven surrounding counties, a 28% growth rate, according to University Health.
To meet the demand for health services, University Health is currently building two new community hospitals: Palo Alto, as well as Retama Community Hospital on San Antonio’s northeast side. Sandy, Utah-based Layton Construction is the construction manager at risk contractor on the Retama project.
The hospitals will each have at least 160 beds and span 480,000 square feet, with another 105,000 square feet in medical office buildings, according to University Health’s website.
Turner’s JV and Layton aren’t alone in netting high-dollar healthcare projects lately. Edmonton, Alberta-based PCL Construction also won a design-build contract recently, worth $667 million, from the government of Saskatchewan, Canada, to construct a new hospital tower in Prince Albert.