I wouldn’t call it being on an island. It’s just a little campus within a campus across the street from most of the main campus buildings.
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Already plans to add 1 more building to the growing UH medical campus with expectations of more. I think the overall campus will continue to expand that direction and does needs a substantial connection for further expansion across the train tracks. I think a large land bridge would be excellent.
Go Coogs!
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When I’ve travelled to various away games and I’ve noticed that most universities have a lot of residential housing on campus and adjacent with more being built. We need to continue adding residential space and create that students in campus atmosphere.
That will add to full stadiums and development around the campus.
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A land bridge would be “cool”, but just getting a bridge over the railroad tracks would be quite an undertaking. From Google Earth, it looks like you’re talking about spanning 1,000’.
If you look at HCAD maps, starting at UH property West of Spur 5: you’ve got a 400’-500’ TxDOT ROW (Spur 5), adjacent to a 250’ Union Pacific RR ROW, and then adjacent to that, CenterPoint owns several hundred feet of property before getting back to UH property.
If you’ve ever worked with any of those 3, they’re near impossible to get to budge on an individual level. Gonna have to send the hostage negotiation team. Railroads are more powerful than God, CenterPoint is nearly as bad, and TxDOT uses the calendar of the planet Neptune… one TxDOT year = 165 Earth years. 
In addition to the long span, there’s also lots of floodplain there from Brays Bayou.
Not saying it’s impossible, it’s just… really REALLY difficult and REALLY REALLY expensive. 
Railroad companies are really, really, really stingy and particular about use of the land, including what goes over or under it and especially Union Pacific. Much, much, much easier said than done.
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Too bad they couldn’t have figured out a way to build the medical school by the other allied sciences colleges (optometry, pharmacy). I bet it would have been a good incubator to have those students close to each other.
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Tell me about it. I worked for that sorry company for 34 years. Not even a cake when i retired…they are beyond stingy.
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Likely told you, “you’re about to get a great railroad pension, can’t you afford your own cake?”
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I’m sure after they finish building the new dining facility, they will probably demolish Moody dining and build new student housing in its place.
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Maybe focusing on student housing isn’t the best way to approach this - let’s build housing for the other end of the spectrum. 
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An out of the box, awesome idea
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That is pretty smart. The huge population of Boomers aging out of the work force need a comfortable place spend their twilight. If you look around Houston, you’ll see tons of retirement places.
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