{"id":1180355,"date":"2022-11-17T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1180355"},"modified":"2022-11-18T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:46:06","slug":"ut-regents-approve-cost-for-ut-tyler-medical-education-building-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1180355","title":{"rendered":"UT Regents approve cost for UT Tyler Medical Education Building construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/uttylerlogo-175x65.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"65\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1180356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/uttylerlogo-175x65.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/uttylerlogo.png 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>AUSTIN &#8211; The University of Texas Board of Regents Thursday gave final authorization for design, development, and additional construction funding for the University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new Medical Education Building &#8212; a $308 million project. The UT Tyler School of Medicine will welcome its first students to campus in the summer of 2023, and the building is expected to be completed in March 2025. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The regents are taking the next pivotal step in launching the UT System\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seventh medical school \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one that is specifically dedicated to benefiting Northeast Texas for generations,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife, as quoted in a news release. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am immensely grateful to the UT System Board of Regents, Chancellor Milliken and our community of supporters who have been instrumental in the efforts to enhance health education for East Texas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said UT Tyler President Dr. Kirk  Calhoun, also as quoted in the release. The building is planned as five-story, nearly 248,000-square-foot facility.  It will be built in Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Midtown District and will connect via skybridge to the UT Health East Texas Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8211; The University of Texas Board of Regents Thursday gave final authorization for design, development, and additional construction funding for the University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new Medical Education Building &#8212; a $308 million project. The UT Tyler School of Medicine will welcome its first students to campus in the summer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1180355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Regents approve cost for UT Tyler Medical Education Building construction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1180363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/uttylerlogo-175x65.png","fifu_image_alt":"UT Regents approve cost for UT Tyler Medical Education Building construction","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 04:51:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/uttylerlogo-175x65.png","fifu_image_alt":"UT Regents approve cost for UT Tyler Medical Education Building construction","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180361,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180355\/revisions\/1180361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}