Agenda - City of Dallas

Deep Ellum TIF District FY 2011
Annual Report
the Juanita J. Craft Recreation Center, will provide treatment and
prevention services to the area’s population which has been determined
as medically underserved. The Institute will have a health clinic staffed by
doctors and other medical specialists, affordable medications, plus
diabetes education ranging from nutrition and cooking classes to exercise
programs. The Craft Center will continue to offer its regular services and
expand others for the institute. Baylor is investing $15 million into the
project. The institute will be open to all regardless of residency, insurance
or income.
Growth and development on the hospital’s campus was celebrated in
several ways during 2009. In April, Baylor Dallas announced that it was
the first hospital in the country to collaborate with GE Healthcare and
BrainLAB to open technically advanced neurosurgery operating suites.
The technology allows neurosurgeons on the medical staff to use realtime,
intra-operative images of the brain during surgery. The $16.5 million
operating suites and four operating rooms opened along with
implementation of a high-definition magnetic resonance scanner and
BrainSUITE iMRI navigation system. The technology was implemented to
help physicians more accurately view a tumor’s location and remove
diseased tissue with minimal impact.
1. The $350 million expansion of the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at
Dallas, which was previously announced in September 2008, also received a
boost when Baylor Health Care System Foundation announced gifts exceeding
$20 million for what will be North Texas’ largest outpatient cancer center and first
dedicated hospital focusing on cancer patients. The donation was made possible
through the generosity of the men and women of Sammons Enterprises, Inc. and
the estate of founder Charles A. Sammons, who has quietly provided significant
philanthropic support to Baylor University Medical Center for more than 50 years.
The new cancer complex opened in 2011.
• To increase recreational opportunities and improve connections to the City of
Dallas trails and open space system in the district.
Extension of the Santa Fe Trail (East Dallas Veloway II Project) into Deep
Ellum (phase II) was completed from Woodrow Wilson High School to Hill
Avenue in 2010. The Trail was extended from Deep Ellum to White Rock
Lake with the completion of the bridge over Winstead Drive in December,
2010 The Staff and the Board will continue to encourage developers to
create linkages to this trail system.
• To generate approximately $27.2 million (net present value) in increment over 20
years of collections.
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