UTMB strengthens League City presence

UTMB strengthens League City presence

By Laura Elder
The Daily News
Published November 26, 2009

Operation: The University of Texas Medical Branch continues to strengthen its League City presence, this time leasing 15,000 square feet in the Brittany Bay Center, 1600 League City Parkway.

The medical branch, the county’s largest employer, will offer occupational and physical therapy services, along with ear, nose and throat specialties, officials said. The medical branch also has leased space for an oral surgery clinic in Brittany Bay Center, a 24,000-square-foot building.

Some of those services had been offered at the medical branch’s Primary Care Pavilion, 400 Harborside Drive on the island. But the pavilion’s first floor was flooded by Hurricane Ike’s catastrophic storm surge a year ago. Leasing space at the Brittany Bay Center allowed the medical branch to consolidate services that were scattered around the county, officials said Wednesday.

The consolidation comes as crews work to complete a 110,000-square-foot specialty care center on 35 acres near Interstate 45, FM 646 and the Victory Lakes subdivision. The $61 million center is meant to attract insured patients living in the North County. It’s the medical branch’s largest single investment on the mainland, offering advanced imaging, pediatric and adult clinics, outpatient surgery and pediatric urgent care.

Staking out ever more territory in the affluent suburbs, the medical branch in August 2008 paid $9.4 million for another 29 acres next to the specialty center.


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