The development is designed to replace Kaiser's current medical and dental buildings off Northwest Evergreen Parkway. The first phase will include a four-story, 380,000-sf, 138-bed hospital as well as a six-story, 352,000-sf medical office building and the two parking structures.

The development site fronts Northwest Evergreen Parkway between Stucki Avenue and 194th Terrace. Construction is slated to begin next fall. The goal is to have the first-phase facilities open by 2009. A later phase would expand the hospital and one of the parking garages and add 95,000 sf of additional hospital support space.

The Hillsboro Planning Commission approved the project in October. Kaiser officials say the new facilities are needed to support its expected subscriber growth in the region. The nonprofit group health organization has 454,000 subscribers in this region—including 75,000 in Washington County--and expects that to hit 600,000 by 2014. The hospital would be Kaiser's second in the region, following the Sunnyside hospital in the Clackamas area.