A plan is stirring to renovate the Medical Towers office development in the Texas Medical Center and add a 230-room Embassy Suites to the site at 1709 Dryden.

Renderings and a site plan of the future project are shown in a marketing brochure being circulated by retail brokers with commercial real estate firm Transwestern.

The development, which will include 23,000 square-feet of restaurant/retail space on the street level, is to be called Medical Center Crossing.

An entity affiliated with Pearl Hospitality purchased the medical center property at the end of 2014, records show. Pearl recently turned downtown's 806 Main into a JW Marriott.

Baylor College of Medicine has had offices in the Medical Towers building, which was developed in 1956 and designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

OffCite.org, the website for Rice Design Alliance's Cite magazine, describes the property's design, which has won several awards.

In a concession to Houston's hot, sunny climate, the long elevations of the rectangular tower are clad with a curtain wall of turquoise, enameled-steel panels that alternate with narrow strips of dark gray, tinted solar glass. The narrow end walls, roughly facing east and west, are solid brick. In 1954, the building won a design award in the first annual P/A Awards program. The Medical Towers Building went on to win a national design award from the AIA and a statewide design award from the Texas Society of Architects, both in 1957. It also won a design award from the Houston AIA in 1960.

The property owner was out of the country and unavailable Friday.