A medical innovation district is planned for 1,200 acres south of downtown Fort Worth, with the hope of attracting healthcare business and serving as an innovation partner with the soon to open TCU and UNTHSC Medical School, Dallas Innovates reports.
The area, called Near Southside, is already home to housing and restaurants as well as Cook Children’s Healthcare System, Texas Heath Harris Methodist, Baylor Scott & White, and Medical City Fort Worth. The hope is for innovative healthcare businesses to collaborate with more established entities, which already employ 30,000 people in the healthcare industry in the area.
Modeled after similar districts in Oklahoma City and St. Louis, construction should be complete by this summer, and the city should officially designate the area in the fall, Dallas Innovates reports.
Learn more about Fort Worth’s medical innovation district here.
