HOUSTON--The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is planning to develop and build a new $113.75-million outpatient diagnostic and treatment center in the Wolff Cos.' development Central Park.

Planned to break ground in 2016 and to open in 2018, the 175,000-square-foot facility will be MD Anderson's first freestanding clinical building constructed outside Houston's Texas Medical Center. The new center represents the first phase of a long-term plan by MD Anderson to develop facilities on its 34.5-acre campus in Central Park, located near the intersection of Interstate 10 and North Dairy Ashford.

“The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's announcement of its project in Central Park is the third of its kind this year – following major construction news from Texas Children's Hospital West Campus and Houston Methodist West Hospital,” Carolyn Dorros, vice president with Wolff Cos., told GlobeSt.com. “Once these projects are completed, these three institutions will have invested over $875 million in facilities along this three-mile stretch of I-10 in West Houston.