The project, which breaks ground before the year ends, has been in planning and design stages for one year, according to Ed Bittner, BremnerDuke's senior vice president of its South region. He tells GlobeSt.com that BremnerDuke will develop and own the 450,000-sf outpatient center, with Baylor leasing "a good portion" of the space. The nine-story crescent-shaped building will go up on a five-acre tract, now a surface parking lot at the corner of Hall and Worth streets.

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Bittner says the leasing team has other top-name tenants lined up for the class A space, with services and research facilities to be disclosed down the road. "It's going to be a world-class cancer-care center," he stresses. "It's been a very long planning process."

The Baylor timeline calls for the outpatient center to open in 2011. The cancer hospital will break ground in 2010, with completion penciled for 2013.

"When completed in 2013, it will be our goal to be a nationally and internationally renowned cancer-care destination, building on Baylor Dallas' commitment to providing advanced cancer treatments and leading the charge of improvement in cancer care through research," Joel T. Allison, president of Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System, says in a press release.