One of the things UT’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center will be doing with that $150 million gift the president of the United Arab Emirates is handing over: Constructing a new 600,000 sq.-ft. therapy building, named after the donor’s dad: the Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan Building for Personalized Cancer Care at MD Anderson. But where in the Med Center will they fit it? It won’t be replacing M.D. Anderson’s Houston Main Building, the former Prudential Life Insurance Tower already being hacked away at, and which the medical institution reportedly plans to demolish within weeks — a new treatment facility of some sort has been planned for that site for almost 9 years. The new building funded by the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Charity Foundation will land instead on a different demo site: the southeast corner of Moursund St. and M.D. Anderson Blvd., a 5-acre lot which until last year was the home of the UT Health Science Center’s Mental Science Institute. M.D. Anderson bought the 2-story concrete-and-brick building at 1300 Moursund from its sister institution, then had it torn down over the summer, identifying the land at the time only as a location for “future expansion.”
A couple more photos of that site, from last year’s demo:
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- M.D. Anderson receives $150 million gift [Houston Chronicle]
- Previously on Swamplot: M.D. Anderson’s Mental Health Break, The Prudential Tower’s Grand Entrance, Before Its Not-so-Grand Exit, Update: M.D. Anderson Not Demolishing Former Prudential Tower Yet, Just Hacking Away at It a Bit
Photos: Candace Garcia
Does anybody know what the Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan Building for Personalized Cancer Care will look like? I bike by this lot almost every morning.
What will we call the Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan Building for Personalized Cancer Care? That’s a mouthful.
How about the ZBSAN building?
So this would be anywhere from 20-25 floors?
map of location: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Moursund+St.+%26+M.D.+Anderson+Blvd&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=Moursund+St+%26+MD+Anderson+Blvd,+Houston,+Harris,+Texas+77030&t=h&z=16
It could be called the Nahyan For You Building.
I disagree with this as a citizen from UAE. I wished the money were used to boost the health care system in UAE. The other thing is no matter what we do, in the eyes of most of the American we are just “rich Arabs”. I lived on North America for a decade and I was disgusted with the amount of hate I receive because I am an Arab. I don’t think any American institute deserves our money!