About a year after announcing its vision for creating a 37-acre collaborative research campus, officials with the Texas Medical Center have announced a new design along with the selection of its design and development partners. “Texas Medical Center is eager to move forward with a bold, imaginative and dynamic new design vision for the TMC3 Master Plan,” TMC CEO and President Bill McKeon said in a news release. Elkus Manfredi Architects, Transwestern Development Company, and Vaughn Construction will lead the project, the TMC announced May 1. The updated design drops plans for an elevated, helix-shaped park to be designed by James Corner, the architect behind New York City's High Line park project. It keeps the helix concept, however, with buildings designed around curved open spaces through the core of the campus. Plans for the park were not included in the request for qualifications for selecting contractors, which was issued in November 2018. "Our idea was to expand on the DNA design concept and create a series of spaces that would elongate the strand all the way north to the historic core of the Texas Medical Center and south to the new development by UTHealth and MD Anderson in order to create more opportunity for connections and collisions," said David Manfredi, CEO and Founding Principal of Elkus Manfredi Architects, in a release. The project envisions opportunities for a TMC3 hotel, retail, office and laboratory space as well as a new main communal building at the center of the campus called TMC3 Collaborative. MD Anderson and UTHealth will build new research facilities on the south end of the campus, and a skybridge will connect the UT Research Park with the new campus, according to the plans. The campus is expected to be complete in 2022.