Medical City Plano starts $24 million parking garage for major expansion

Medical City Plano is adding a $24 million parking garage to keep pace with a hospital campus that is growing in size, staff and patient volume. Construction on the garage began in January and is expected to wrap up by Dec. 31, 2027, making it part of a long-running expansion that is changing how patients, visitors and employees will move through the Plano campus.

The garage is being built alongside Medical City Plano’s $108 million expansion, a project designed to add more than 131,700 square feet, 60 additional beds for medical and surgical patients and three rooftop helipads. That combination makes clear the garage is not a standalone amenity. It is part of the access and logistics needed for a larger hospital campus to function as it takes on more complex care.

Medical City Healthcare has said the expansion is intended to meet the growing North Texas population’s need for high-level emergency, medical, surgical and oncology care. That matters in Collin County, where Medical City Plano is described as the county’s only Level I Trauma Center. With trauma, emergency and specialty care all concentrated on one campus, parking, circulation and ambulance access become part of the public-health equation, not just a construction detail.

The hospital’s scale helps explain the pressure. Prior reporting put Medical City Plano at 600 acute care beds and about 2,200 employees, a workforce and patient base large enough to strain parking even before the next wave of construction is finished. Ben Coogan became chief executive officer in 2023 and also has reporting oversight of Medical City Frisco, putting him at the center of a capital-heavy period for the hospital system.

Earlier coverage described the tower project as a four-story vertical expansion with shell space for future beds, a sign that the campus is being built with still more growth in mind. Medical City Plano said the broader expansion started in September 2025, and a February update said the tower project had passed a construction milestone and was expected to finish in spring 2027. The parking garage’s later completion date suggests it will come online as the campus reaches its next stage, giving one of Plano’s busiest hospitals more room to serve a region that keeps growing.