Hospital Takes 130,000 SF at Tech Park

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SKOKIE, IL-Evanston Northwestern Healthcare will move its data center and 500 employees to Illinois Science + Technology Park, the two-million-sf redevelopment of the former Pfizer and Searle facility. The healthcare provider becomes the largest tenant in Cleveland-based Forest City Enterprises’ $30-million project, signing a 130,000-sf lease at the 23-acre campus along the Skokie Swift line, north of Oakton Street.

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare will use the space at the Illinois Science + Technology Park to house electronic medical records, including MRIs and X-rays. The lease gives the operator of Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park hospitals twice as much space than it has at its current location. “We will be able to centralize all of our Information Systems personnel in one location,” says Evanston Northwestern Healthcare chief information officer Tom Smith. The newest tenant joins the NanoBusiness Alliance, a national trade association; and NanoInk, which developed the Dip Pen Nanolithography manufacturing process.