I may jump around a little and start expanding our scope to a few smaller cities in Northern Indiana. Entirely coincidentally, all three of these are medical projects -
Valparaiso -
St. Mary Medical Center / Valparaiso Health Center is expanding - upward - with a 3rd story addition. This medical center opened in 2013 along
a suburbanizing stretch of Route-49 - northeast of downtown Valparaiso. The addition will greatly increase the presence it has from the roadway, not to mention greatly increase its capacity as well, by providing new space for physical therapy, medical oncology, and gastroenterology services. Construction is expected to be finished in June 2021 -
Source:
Building Indiana Business
Crown Point -
Franciscan Health is building a new, $200+ million hospital in this distant, outer suburb of Chicago. The project actually broke ground last September, but plans for the main phase of work were just recently approved. It is being built adjacent to the Franciscan Health center, located along
Mississippi Parkway, and it is modeled on a recently-completed new hospital in Michigan City (see next project). The existing Crown Point hospital was built
south of downtown in 1974. It's future is yet undetermined. The article below explains a bit more -
Source:
Northwest Indiana Times
Michigan City -
Franciscan Health completed a new hospital that opened in January 2019 in Michigan City for $243 million. It was built
directly adjacent to the US-421 - I-94 interchange, and it was designed to be the prototype for future Franciscan Health campuses, including the Crown Point project (mentioned above). The
older downtown St. Anthony's Hospital still contains some healthcare services, including an urgent care and administrative space -
Source:
Draper & Associates