UTSA Health Science Center developing $45M center

SAN ANTONIO – The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is expanding. A 125,000-sf, four-story building will be constructed on a site located behind the Health Science Center’s Holly Auditorium.

The academic facility will also house a new human anatomy teaching facility. The new center is slated to be completed by spring 2015.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents approved $45 million to construct the Academic Learning and Teaching Center at the Northwest San Antonio campus.

Student enrollment at the Health Science Center has increased nearly 22 percent from fall 2000 to fall 2012. Construction will begin in late summer.