Space: The Final Frontier

The game plan

Six new structures will be built between now and 2003, and in their wake, several existing buildings will be renovated.


The 325,000-square-foot biomedical research building (the first of two planned for Emory's "research triangle") will house state-of-the-art medical labs for 150 researchers involved in interdisciplinary investigations. The seven-story structure - the largest on campus except for Emory Hospital - will connect with the existing Rollins Research Building and will parallel the railroad tracks. Cost: $75 million. Completion: Fall 2001.


Nursing's new 100,000-square-foot structure will provide classrooms of the future, distance learning capabilities, and shared space that can be used by other schools such as its neighbor, public health. The four-story nursing building will anchor the northern end of Emory's emerging research triangle and will signal the official "gateway" into the Emory campus from Clifton Road. Cost: $22 million. Completion: Winter 2000.


A 200,000-square-foot Cancer Center is currently slated for Uppergate Drive on land now occupied by the Uppergate Pavilion. A site fronting Clinic B is also under consideration. As the Winship Cancer Center seeks comprehensive cancer center stature from the National Cancer Institute, this new building will facilitate protocol-based treatments, rather than medical specialties. Through a connector to the Emory Clinic, patients will have easier access to radiation oncology, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and outpatient surgery. Cost: $50 million. Completion: Fall 2001.


The 70,000-square-foot Emory Vaccine Center at Yerkes will house what's been dubbed as the "Manhattan Project" of AIDS research and has already attracted many top-notch scientists to the Emory fold. (See Yerkes article.) Cost: $13.5 million. Completion: February 1999.


Phase 1 of Science 2000, a university initiative, will pull together the now widely dispersed university departments of chemistry, physics, math, and computer science into a five-story, 70,000-square-foot Center for Physical Sciences. Cost: $23.5 million. Completion: 2000.


The Anatomy and Physiology Buildings and their connector will be renovated into a medical school complex to house all medical school education and the dean's office. Cost: $10 million. Completion: Spring 2003.


The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building will be retrofitted to accommodate new administrative functions and some that currently are located off campus. Cost: TBD. Completion: 2003.


The existing Center for Rehabilitation Medicine building is tentatively scheduled for renovation to accommodate the Department of Pediatrics. Cost: TBD. Completion: 2001.


The existing nursing building will be converted into office space for Emory Hospital. Cost: TBD. Completion: 2001.


Wesley Woods Rehabilitation Center will serve rehab patients in a new structure attached to Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital. Cost: $14 million. Completion: 2000.


By the end of the decade, Emory's "research triangle" will include two biomedical research buildings, a new nursing school building, the Rollins Research Center, the Health Sciences Library, and the Rollins School of Public Health.


R indicates existing structures tentatively scheduled for renovation.

 


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