Posted May 31, 2017, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Urbannizer
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, phase III to the Museum Fine Arts of Houston Expansion, will begin construction shortly.
Via email from the Museum Park Neighborhood Association:
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston's $450M expansion hits milestone
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A considerable part of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston's $450 million campus redevelopment officially broke ground on May 31.
A formal groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, a 165,000-square-foot building that'll contain 54,000 square feet of gallery space, a 200-seat theater, a restaurant overlooking the campus' sculpture garden and an underground parking garage. It's the largest structure underway as part of the MFAH's 14-acre expansion to its Fayez S. Sarofim Campus.
"This is not about us today," said Rich Kinder, board chairman of the MFAH and executive chairman of Houston-based Kinder Morgan Inc. "This is about a great project. … I'd argue it's transformational for Houston."
The building is set to deliver in late 2019 and is being built by St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Cos.
Kinder, whose foundation donated at least $50 million to the MFAH expansion, attended the building's groundbreaking ceremony alongside his wife and Kinder Foundation President Nancy Kinder, as well as Gary Tintertow, director of the MFAH; Anne Duncan, vice chairman of the MFAH and Steven Holl of New York-based Steven Holl Architects, which designed the Fayez S. Sarofim Campus master plan.
So far, $390 million of the campus' total cost of $450 million has been raised, Tintertow said at the building's groundbreaking.
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building's perimeter will be lined with six small pools. It'll be connected to the 80,000-square-foot Glassell School of Art and the Caroline Wiess Law Building via two pedestrian tunnels. The Glassell School of Art, as well as the 36,000-square-foot Brown Foundation Inc. Plaza, are currently under construction and scheduled to open in January 2018.
The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Conservation Center, a 30,000-square-foot conservation center with studios and offices, will be built on top of a MFAH parking garage and should deliver in late 2018.
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