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Brazos County building $35 million medical examiner's office; director to begin behind-the-scenes work in Feb. 2026
Summary
Brazos County is constructing a roughly 21,000-square-foot medical examiner's office in Bryan funded in part by the American Rescue Plan Act; the facility includes two autopsy suites, training space and an observation room, and Doctor Dirickson will begin preparatory duties in February 2026.
Brazos County is building a roughly 21,000-square-foot medical examiner's office on East 29th Street in Bryan, a $35,000,000 project that officials say is partially funded by the American Rescue Plan Act and county funds. An unidentified speaker in the transcript said officials broke ground in December 2024 and that "by December 2025, you can already see interior rooms taking shape."
The county plans to outfit the facility with two autopsy suites, two cold rooms, office and training space, and an observation room intended to allow viewing from outside an autopsy suite for educational purposes. "There's an observation room for viewing outside of 1 of the autopsy suites, providing space for…
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