So Penn Medicine did a town hall presentation about status/design updates and timeline about the Pavilion. Here's some of the info I think is useful/cool, not sure if it's new or previously known:
Timeline: They're about halfway through construction, looking at early 2021 to finish construction, for activation/occupancy by mid-2021.
1.5 million square feet, 504 patient rooms (all upper 7 floors), 47 operating/procedure rooms,, 61 emergency department rooms, 690 Parking spaces underground.
There's going to be a bridge from SEPTA University City Station to the Pavilion
Destination dispatch elevators; in the hallway you push what floor you're going to, it tells you what elevator to get on and sends you to that floor. Supposed to decrease the amount of wait time/delays.
Built in a way to maximize space and natural lighting.
The emergency department is moving into this building, towards the end of Convention Ave/Health Sciences Drive
In the LONG-TERM future, looking at possible upgrades to transportation such that an airport-style moving walkway in a contained bridge down 34th street connecting the garages, or a monorail looping through parts of University City.
New Emergency Department:
https://imgur.com/AQ9c7AM
In between Pavilion and Penn Museum:
https://imgur.com/AA1V1TP
Completed View from South Street Bridge:
https://imgur.com/PsKSbTN
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