Allan R. Brown, partner for the Dallas-based Trophy Healthcare,tells GlobeSt.com that the project is backed by long-term leaseswith SeniorHealth for the 70-bed rehab hospital and AbileneDiagnostics Physicians for the 20,000-sf clinic, which will connectthe development to an existing 75,000-sf medical office building.The added clinical space will house an ambulatory surgery unit,diagnostic imaging and urgent care center, according to Brown. TheAbilene Specialty Hospital will rise on a 3.5-acre tract withservice road frontage at the intersection of Antilley Boulevard andDirectors Parkway.

"We've been working on this for 10 months," Brown says. "It'sfinally to a point where things are starting to come together."

Brown says the plan is to buy the land in September from thephysicians group and immediately break ground so the facility cancome on line in September 2007. The design-build team includesPageSoutherlandPage's Dallas architectural team and Thos. S. BryneLtd. of Fort Worth as the general contractor.