Hopkins Closes Door on Decade-Long Development Project

BALTIMORE-Come this Friday, April 23, the official completion of Johns Hopkins University’s massive expansion of its Bloomberg School of Public Health will have come to an end after 10 years of development activity. The new 200,000-sf addition, final piece in a $130-million multi-phase expansion, cost $55 million to realize. With the conclusion of construction, as well as past expansions, the school’s primary facility now boasts a size of close to one million sf. What is billed as the biggest public health school in the world–the campus educational facility boasts more than 1,700 students–just got bigger.

Hopkins’ School of Public Health occupies a spot on Wolfe Street in East Baltimore. Renamed for one of its former Board of Trustees chairmen, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the school has occupied the original 360,000-sf building that was constructed at the university’s East Campus for its use back in 1928, 12 years after its establishment.