Midway between Austin and San Antonio sits the scenic town of New Braunfels, home to just one hospital and a growing population. Residents will have a new option come April, when the $110-million Resolute Health Hospital reaches completion. Brasfield & Gorrie is leading construction on the five-story, 364,615-sq-ft building, which sits on a 58-acre greenfield site.
"New Braunfels was selected as kind of an innovation site for the company. It's a growing area—not just New Braunfels but kind of a mini tri-city area consisting of New Braunfels, San Marcos and Seguin—so there's a great deal of increasing demographics there," says owner's representative Don Ryden, vice president-real estate at Baptist Health System. "Some of the initial studies indicated that there was a huge amount of certain inpatient out-migration for hospital care, and so with only one hospital and the growth that is projected in New Braunfels, we saw this as a good location."