(Save the date: RealShare Medical Office buildings comes to the Four Seasons in Scottsdale, AZ, November 7-8, 2012.)
TORRANCE, CA-The culmination of planning efforts for the final design changes to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center’s campus master plan were revealed earlier this week. The County of Los Angeles contracted with Perkins + Will to prepare the master plan for the campus’s redevelopment to more efficiently provide health services. A spokesperson from the County tells GlobeSt.com that the approximate construction cost for completing everything in the master plan is just over $2.5 billion.
The County spokesperson adds, “The master plan is a comprehensive, long-range-vision plan for the medical center over the next 20 years. It is intended to guide growth and development on the campus. As such, start of construction and resources to fund it have not been determined as of yet. The next step in this process is to have the master plan approved by the Board of Supervisors. That is projected to happen within the next couple of months.”
The proposed changes are the result of input from hundreds of residents, hospital employees, agency staff and stakeholders who attended meetings, briefings and public presentations to learn more about the project and share their views on the future of the campus, which is located at 1000 W. Carson St. here. Feedback received throughout the year-long planning effort was critical in helping to develop the final plan, which includes proposed changes in relation to physical use, programming, zoning and pedestrian/vehicular access points. The plan will guide development on the campus for the next 50 years.
In Phase 1, a staff parking structure and biomedical buildings will be constructed. Phases 2 and 3 will bring the construction of an outpatient building, another biomedical building and a campus center. A hospital tower and another biomedical building will be built in Phase 4. A staff parking structure and surface parking will be constructed, along with the remodel of the existing hospital floor by floor in Phase 5. The landscaping plans include a plaza activated by a vertical water feature, a pathway through the campus, a center spine that provides a sense of place with seating and shade, a fitness trail and a hospital roof garden.
As GlobeSt.com previously reported, in September 2010 Pierre Sprinkler & Landscape partnered up with Hensel Phelps Construction Co. on the emergency-room expansion project at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The $332-million project was slated to be finished by Summer 2013. The project’s goal was to increase the size of the existing emergency room from 25,000 square feet with 42 surgery bays to about 75,000 square feet with 80 surgery bays. It will also add 190,300 square feet of new hospital facilities, including 16 surgery rooms; an adult and pediatric triage; and a new entrance, lobby and waiting area. Other features will include a new heliport and 544-vehicle parking structure.
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Carrie Rossenfeld
Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.
