St. Louis is building up its healthcare infrastructure - in a serious way. Many new buildings including hospitals, research labs, med tech/biotech, educational and corporate facilities are sprouting up throughout the region. This is in addition to the numerous metro area projects that recently wrapped up construction.
Below are a few health care projects - most of which are under construction along I-64 - dubbed the
Healthcare Highway.
BJC Pediatric Center, Town & Country, $50-million
Pre-construction stage
Located near the Healthcare Highway in suburban T&C.
BJC HealthCare is one step closer to breaking ground on its pediatric center in Town & Country, and has released a rendering of what the new facility will look like once it’s completed.
BJC expects to occupy the 140,999-square-foot medical building by next summer, but first needs to complete the city’s comprehensive building permitting process.
______________________________________
A.T. Still University Dental School and Clinic, St. Louis City, $25-million
Design stage complete. Faculty being selected.
The dental school and clinic will be near downtown St. Louis. First dental school to be located within the city limits in decades.
A.T. Still University finalized the purchase of the land west of the historic City Hospital Power Plant building and will break ground on the nearly $25 million dental clinic in April, according to school officials.
It will be a three-story, 79,000-square-foot building instead of the two-story, 50,000-square-foot building originally envisioned by school officials.
______________________________________
Mercy Chesterfield Health Campus, $200-million
Pre-construction stage
Pre-construction efforts have been underway on Mercy’s new $200 million Health Campus in Chesterfield, Missouri. Serving as developer and design/builder, Clayco and Forum Studios are well into conceptual design, site due diligence, and entitlements.
The first phase of the project includes over $150 million in construction, including site development work, a 219,220 SF Corporate Headquarters, a 200,000 SF Orthopedic Hospital, and a 170,000 SF Virtual Care Center, which will serve as a hub for Mercy’s telemedicine initiatives.
______________________________________
Shriners Children's Hospital-St. Louis, $50-million
Under construction, nearly complete
______________________________________
Express Scripts 6, Lambert International Airport, $54-million
Under construction, nearly complete
Express Scripts is planning to hire 1,500 in the St. Louis area over the next few years.
One building near completion is the Express Scripts, Inc. Operations/Contact Center project, which is a 2-story 225,668 gross square foot core and shell office building.
It is near Lambert International Airport and the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
______________________________________
BJC North Hospital and Children’s Hospital expansions, $350-million
2-12 story towers, Phase I
Demolition of existing buildings underway. Design stage complete.
Two 12-story medical towers on Kingshighway make up the first phase of BJC HealthCare's skyline-altering expansion program in the Central West End.
Clinical care at the Siteman Cancer Center will be consolidated and expanded at one of the new buildings, along with new obstetrics facilities. The new building — at least for now — is called Barnes-Jewish Hospital North. Twelve operating rooms and 182 adult patient beds are part of the building’s plan.
The other building is an expansion of St. Louis Children’s Hospital. It will have 96 pediatric patient beds, plus 97 neonatal intensive care unit beds.
Occupancy of both buildings is anticipated for early 2018.
______________________________________
Washington University Medical School, McKinley Research Building, St. Louis City, $75-million
Under construction
Washington University scientists will soon get 138,000 square feet of additional work room in the rapidly expanding area of human biologic research.
The 6-story, 181,000 square foot research lab facility. Features include a full basement and penthouse built for WUSM and their various lab departments of genetics, genome sciences and systems biology, internal medicine, developmental biology and radiology.
______________________________________
Walker Hall, Maryville University, School of Health Professions, $20-million
Under construction
Located near the Healthcare Highway (I-64) in Chesterfield.
The $20 million building that will include state-of-the-art facilities for the Walker Scottish Rite Clinic for Childhood Language Disorders, classrooms, meeting spaces, laboratories, offices and a planned speech clinic for adults.
When it opens in spring 2015, the 70,000-square-foot building will double the space Maryville has for programs in the College of Health Professions.
Maryville’s College of Health Professions includes nationally recognized programs in nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, rehabilitation services, rehabilitation counseling, and music therapy and new programs in communication science and disorders and speech language pathology.
The School’s programs enjoy a national reputation for excellence and Maryville’s new online graduate nursing degrees, launched in May 2012, already enroll more than 1,200 students.
______________________________________
St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis City, $50-million
The construction fence is up.
The college campus is nestled in the Washington University Medical Center.
A major construction project is underway that will transform the look of one of St. Louis’ oldest colleges. Very soon, a six-story academic building will rise on the campus of St. Louis College of Pharmacy.
here will be 213,000 square feet of floor space, which will include a large auditorium, several large classrooms, smaller classrooms, study areas, and 30,000 square feet of research space. The library will more than triple in size, and there will also be a welcome center for prospective students and their families.
Exactly 1,350 students from 31 states and several countries are currently enrolled at the College.
______________________________________
University of Missouri St. Louis -College of Nursing & College of Optometry Complex
Proposed, Funding Stage
______________________________________
VA Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis County, $366-million
Phased, under construction
VA St. Louis Health Care System is moving forward on a multi-year, multi-million dollar construction project at their Jefferson Barracks Division.
The campus is undergoing a major renovation which will provide 5 new state of the art buildings including a new clinic building, medical rehab/recreation facility, energy plant, ware house and tenant buildings. It will also demolish 14 buildings and hand the land over to the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery for their expansion needs. The planning for this expansion has been ongoing for several years but the benefactors of this project will be the Veterans of St. Louis for years to come.
This is one of two VA complexes in metro St. Louis. The other is in Midtown and it too is preparing for an addition and upgrades.
Prev
Approved! Apparently some great downtown feel and living to this thing right above.
Linear Mode
