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Campus Construction Progressing on Schedule

Employees, physicians and visitors alike are marveling at the new look of the White Memorial campus, now that the Main and West buildings have been demolished. In fact, the demolition is still underway. Crews are busy demolishing the basement walls of old Main building and disposing of the debris. The West building has been demolished to the first floor level. When the utilities now running through the West building to the North building have been re-routed, the West building will continue demolition to the basement floor. When that’s completed, crews will punch holes in the concrete flooring to allow water drainage, but the basement floors will not be taken out. After that, the next step is to backfill the large holes where both building once stood.

All this will take several more months. Once the backfilled holes have been smoothed and prepared for construction, crews will dig foundations for the hospital’s new lobby, chapel and front entryway. The actual construction of these structures will follow. Construction is currently estimated for final completion at the end of 2009.

Another recent development is the addition of signage to the outside walls of the Specialty Care Tower. Signage has been added to the South, West and East faces of the building, and is now going up on the North face. The signs will be lit at night, and visible from downtown, the freeway, and various parts of our community.

Posted 7/02/08