Posted Sep 23, 2019, 5:46 PM
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So there are poor guys and a tractor in the rain digging around in that fenced off lot off Thomas behind the Toll Brothers location.
I dont know what they are digging for but they are digging, did we somehow miss a small apartment project or something in this location?
Also locked article from PHX bizz on Creighton, nothing new just some details about the expected enrollment and faculty size.
https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/...s-midtown.html
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Now that Creighton University is moving dirt on its $100 million medical school at Park Central Mall in midtown Phoenix, other pieces of the development are falling into place.
The new campus will make Nebraska-based Creighton the largest Catholic medical school in the nation, said Sharon Harper, CEO of Peoria-based real estate firm Plaza Cos.
Plaza Cos. is working with Tucson-based Holualoa Cos. to redevelop Park Central Mall into office and retail space on a campus that will include the medical school and a 278-unit apartment community.
Harper said she is in escrow to sell 1.6 acres to Houston-based The Dinerstein Cos., which will build a nine-story, $45.6 million apartment community on the site. The apartment project architect is Cunningham Group.
Dinerstein, which built Sterling 920 Terrace as student housing near Arizona State University's Tempe campus in 2018, recently sold that property for $115 million, according to Vizzda LLC, a Tempe-based real estate database.
While construction on the medical school started in early July, a construction celebration and ceremonial groundbreaking is being held Sept. 25 at Park Central, Harper said.
"Everything is going great," she said. "At the same time, we have the big parking deck under construction, restaurants are open and companies are moving into Park Central. It's a whirlwind over there. It's been exciting to see how that can all happen."
The first phase of Creighton University's new medical campus will include 180,000 square feet. Okland Construction is the general contractor for the first phase, Butler Design Group will serve as architect and RDG Planning & Design as the conceptual and tenant design and improvement architect.
A second building, a mirror image of the first under construction, will be built later as the school grows.
While this will be the first time Creighton University builds a satellite medical campus, the Jesuit Catholic university is no stranger to Phoenix. In 2005, Creighton began a partnership with St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center — a Catholic hospital at the time — for summer clinical engagements.
That relationship intensified by 2012 with Creighton sending 42 third- and fourth-year medical students to St. Joseph's for clinical rotations, said Rev. Daniel Hendrickson, president of Creighton University.
By 2016, Creighton signed an affiliation agreement with Valleywise Health (formerly Maricopa Integrated Health System) and San Francisco-based Dignity Health, which owns St. Joseph's. That relationship solidified further when the three organizations created the Creighton University-Arizona Health Education Alliance to oversee graduate medical education programs for MIHS and St. Joseph's, as well as the program for District Medical Group, the physician partnership that works at Valleywise Health.
It's rare for a medical school to open a second campus in another state, Hendrickson said. The closest example is Tucson-based University of Arizona, which operates a medical school on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in downtown Phoenix.
"This is a pretty rare situation to have the ability to expand like this, he said.
When Creighton opens its medical school in 2021, the first class will start with 100 students and increase to 120 students per class after that, said Dr. Robert Dunlay, dean of medicine for Creighton's medical school.
By 2024, Creighton's Phoenix medical campus will have 886 total students. Of those, 480 will be medical students, with 96 nursing students, 80 pharmacy students, 90 occupational therapy students, 120 physical therapy students, 20 physicians assistant students and 300 residents in 22 residency and fellowship programs. It will have more than 500 faculty on site by then, Dunlay said.
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