EL PASO-A local medical foundation has partnered with a healthcare real estate developer, a technology venture development firm and an architecture firm specializing in healthcare design to create a bio-medical campus here.

The Medical Center of the Americas Foundation, which brings together entities in El Paso dedicated to health research, service delivery and education in the Paso del Norte region and the Americas, recently selected Hammes Company, E-Cubed Ventures LLC and Perkins+Will Inc. to help design a plan for 10 acres within the 140-acre master planned development that includes the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso and the University Medical Center of El Paso.

MCA’s initial request for proposals called for strategic and business planning services for only the first of three planned 80,000-square-foot buildings. Plans for Building I included offices, laboratories, support space, meeting/conference/auditorium facilities, technology incubator/accelerator space, medical office suites for clinical trials and flex space that can be built out for specific tenants’ needs.