The 10 a.m. event kicks off the first in a series of leading edge, multi-specialty imaging centers that are on the Cirrus-Toshiba drawing boards. The Park Cities Medical Plaza will cost about $10 million, excluding equipment, for 40,000 sf of offices, outpatient surgery, imaging and rehab space and about 80,000 sf in two levels of underground parking in an in-town area that grapples daily with the woes of too few spaces.

Coming from Toshiba's Tokyo headquarters is Hideo Hasegawa, senior vice president, CFO and treasurer. In addition, the Tustin, CA-based Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. is sending three vice presidents in sales, marketing and service. Also on hand will be four Toshiba executives from the southwestern US region.

Cirrus closed on the Snider Plaza site July 1 as AAE Architects of Dallas were hard at work designing an in-town imaging center prototype that would meld with the retail center's eclectic look that has been evolving since the 1930s. The three-story building will be the new home of the Texas Sports Medicine Orthopedic Clinic and Rehabilitation Services.