AUSTIN (ABJ) — University of Texas leaders shared insight about the future development of the UT Medical Center that’s being developed in partnership with MD Anderson Cancer Center — and it sounds like the massive project won’t be moving forward at the site within Austin’s new medical district that used to hold the Frank Erwin Center.
The University of Texas had previously shared plans that the school would build out a medical center that would blend the school’s academic and research capabilities with the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center to create a digitally enabled, patient-centered academic health system. At one point, it was planned to be built on the site of the Frank Erwin Center, which was an old UT sports arena.
But university leaders began to change their tune on the future location of the medical center this past November when Kevin Eltife, the UT board chairman, said another university-owned site near The Domain in North Austin is being considered for the development of the UT Medical Center…