Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital breaks ground on new buildings as part of $72M expansion

Another portion of Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital’s $71.8 million expansion has broken ground.

This phase includes a 100,000-square-foot professional office building, a 50,000-square-foot sports park and a parking garage on the hospital’s campus at 27800 Northwest Freeway.

Overall, the expansion will bring an additional 185,000 square feet and more than 500 parking spaces to the 32-acre campus and increase the number of beds to 145.

The hospital system expects to complete the expansion in 2024.

Houston-based Powers Brown Architecture designed the professional building, and Dallas-based Austin Commercial is building it. The Memorial Hermann Sports Park-Cypress was designed by Identity Architects and will be built by E.E. Reed Construction. Both are based in Houston.

“This expansion has been highly anticipated ever since we announced it last year,” Jerry Ashworth, senior vice president and CEO of Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital, said in a statement. “It is so wonderful to finally see this project come to fruition. This expansion will enhance the patient experience, which begins the moment someone visits our campus and enters the hospital to when they leave the campus grounds.”

The Memorial Hermann Sports Park-Cypress is a collaboration between Memorial Hermann, Texas-based gym Athlete Training and Health and UT Physicians Orthopedics. The facility will provide medical care and athletic training for professional athletes, youth athletes and adults with orthopedic injuries, similar to Memorial Hermann’s facility at its Katy campus.

It will include a UT Physicians Orthopedics clinic, a Memorial Hermann Rockets Sports Medicine Institute clinic, physicians with sports medicine training and an ATH training center with an adult fitness space, pro-style weight room and an indoor turf field for performance training. The facility will also have an outdoor turf field to host a variety of community sports leagues including soccer, football and lacrosse.

“Our goal is to provide Cypress and the surrounding communities advanced and specialized orthopedic care in all areas,” said Dr. Kevin Coupe, vice chair of clinical operations in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and an orthopedic surgeon with Memorial Hermann Rockets Orthopedics. “These sports parks become extremely important in their respective communities because they care for athletes of all ages and abilities. In addition, they provide wonderful opportunities to partner with local school districts and community sports leagues alike.”

This is the campus’ first major expansion since 2019, when Memorial Hermann spent $25 million to add 24 beds, new units and laboratories. Ashworth previously told the Houston Business Journal more additions may come, including a second patient tower, another medical office building and expanded parking garage.