New $100M tower planned for Medical Center
The nearly 100,000-square-foot structure is part of UT Health San Antonio's planned billion-dollar expansion.
It's crazy how that structure is worth $100M. Weston Urban's tower was estimated to cost around $110M. Maybe this building is fit with all kinds of special medical equipment and that is what is bumping up the price.
This new building reminds me somehow of a minimum security penitentiary. I say it looks pretty good, anyhow.
Construction building costs have risen crazily since the Pandemic and for what reasons? A one time shortage on materials from years ago? As in the case where Ford could not produce pickup trucks because of a computer chip shortage at the time. These prices are being manipulated and it is exploitation. High Prices for building materials should have receded but the industry will not give up their ill-gotten gains.
I have spoken to a number of different contractors who said that the construction costs are -ridiculous now in comparison to just a few years ago.
Tripled for materials cost some times.
Why don't they make hospitals taller? Emergency rooms obviously need to be on the ground floor, but all the non-emergency elements... why do they build them like Vegas hotels?
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