McKinney Baylor Hospital To Break Ground Tuesday

Opening Expected Late 2010

Baylor Health Care Systems will break ground on its McKinney facility at 10 a.m. on Tuesday at the northwest corner of of Highway 380 and Lake Forest Drive, according to the McKinney Courier-Gazette.

The full service 95-bed hospital will open in late 2010, with a medical office building adjacent to the hospital expected to open prior to that. The architectural firm of RTKL of Dallas is working on the design of the new facility, which is expected to expand over time from the initial 95 beds.

Officials say the proposed hospital will have an infrastructure that will allow it to grow into a 12-story building with over 400 beds to keep pace with expected population increase.

Baylor Health Care Systems paid roughly $7 million for the nearly 50-acre site of its McKinney facility.

This is literally right up the street. I pass it almost every time I leave my house and anytime we walk the dogs we go along here as we circle the neighborhood. Plus, last I heard they had limited the # of stories to way less than twelve!

Mess until 2010? Grrrr.