The board that oversees the Alegent Creighton Health system of hospitals and medical clinics meets today in Lincoln to discuss — and possibly decide — what will happen with the system's trauma and academic medical centers. Those centers now are at Creighton at 30th and California Streets, but they may be moving southwest to Bergan Mercy Medical Center, which is at 75th Street and Mercy Road.
Expected, but not ideal for us living west CUMC currently. Â A lot of students live in this area, it will be interesting to see how it all plays out in the next few years.
Bob Glissmann / World-Herald staff writer wrote:Bergan Mercy Medical Center will become a teaching hospital and trauma center, shifting those functions four miles southwest of Creighton University Medical Center.
The board that oversees the Alegent Creighton Health system voted Thursday to make the move to Bergan from Creighton, which has served as a teaching hospital and trauma center since 1977.
The Creighton hospital, at 30th and California Streets, will become an outpatient center with an emergency department.
That being said Creighton will probably build a new dentistry school further east and with Boys Town expanding their hospital out west I wonder what their plans are here long term.
With stepped-up efforts underway to sell the Creighton University Medical Center, a variety of possible uses are emerging that include housing, a data center, offices or research space.
And don’t forget vertical farming.
At least for now, nothing — including growing soybeans or other crops indoors — is too far-fetched an idea for the six-story structure that CB Richard Ellis/Mega Real Estate is marketing nationally, said James Maenner, the company’s senior vice president, who is exploring options with potential users including vertical-farming advocates.
Maenner’s firm has officially listed the 795,000-square-foot medical center and related parking stalls that will be vacated in 2017, after the teaching hospital and trauma center move to new digs at the Bergan Mercy Medical Center complex.
On Thursday, Maenner is having a meeting to give area brokers and developers an inside look at the facility at 30th and California Streets that, he said, would be the fourth-largest single office building in the downtown-midtown area.
Creighton’s preference is that the structure be repurposed and not demolished, said John Wilhelm, vice president for administration. He said the institution’s leaders have not set a price and are open to hearing all concepts.
Not sure Creighton has much ag relate curriculum. I think a vertical farm would be amazing though. I had a convo with a friend about localized food vs processed food after the whole ConAgra fiasco. We both agreed how great it would be is if Omaha became a national leader in fresh local food. We already have the surrounding farm land but a large vertical farm could provide a ton of food for the city and could be used as a place to teach people where their food comes from and why local and fresh is better than the processed stuff that is creating countless health issues for us. Schools touring the facility could teach children about good eating habits at an early age. Residents and restaurants could locally source produce all year long. Ect.
Although, I am open to pretty much any of those ideas. Keeping it as a medical research facility to partner with UNMC would be one of the easier options, probably.
When fortune smiles on something as violent and ugly as revenge, it seems proof like no other that not only does God exist, you're doing his will.
Creighton University has a buyer for its 40-year-old medical center on 30th and California Streets.
A brief announcement of a pending sale was made by email to some Creighton staff and faculty Wednesday afternoon.
Creighton has had plans to relocate its trauma center and teaching hospital to Bergan Mercy Medical Center in June 2017.
Until then, the Creighton medical center operations at 30th and California Streets will continue and will not be disrupted, medical center officials said. Redevelopment of the site is to begin after all patient services are moved.
A full announcement to the Creighton campus was scheduled Thursday.
700 apartment units, 40K SF in retail, a pedestrian bridge over 75, a lake and trail connections and a new elementary school. This is going to be awesome for Creighton, Midtown, NDT and Downtown.
This is going to be so freaking cool. NuStyle is such an asset for Omaha.
It'll definitely be a positive development for the area. However, it's all conceptual until construction starts. Plenty of projects in this city have stalled during the planning stages for one reason or another.
jessep28 wrote:It'll definitely be a positive development for the area. However, it's all conceptual until construction starts. Plenty of projects in this city have stalled during the planning stages for one reason or another.
NuStyle is about a strong as it gets. There is always that chance, but they have consistently been on time and impressive upon completion. I don't have a worry here.
I hate to pull an MTO (<3 you MTO), but I have a strange feeling this is going to be the timeline.
-Late 2016/Early 2017, first complete renderings released
-2017 Hospital is vacated
-later 2017 incentives still being finalized, funding being secured
-2018 funding still being secured, incentives still being negotiated
-2021 Mecha-Jean, Omaha's new Mayor/Overlord denies incentives because of "costs"
-2025 Hospital is torn down after findings of severe asbestos, lead, and hidden colony of rabid baboons living in duct work
-2026 New renderings show new 4 story 120 unit apartment complex with Cubbies gas station and strip mall. Lake replaced with large surface parking lot for strip mall. Eomahaforums complains that the apartment complex is not urban enough because instead of 40 feet from the street, it's 45 feet from the street.
2028 - Construction completed.
Actually MTO thinks there may be a slight delay like a 2018 start but MTO trusts NuStyle. If they had announced another full demo all new super block project I'd be skeptical.
jessep28 wrote:It'll definitely be a positive development for the area. However, it's all conceptual until construction starts. Plenty of projects in this city have stalled during the planning stages for one reason or another.
NuStyle is about a strong as it gets. There is always that chance, but they have consistently been on time and impressive upon completion. I don't have a worry here.
I agree, NuStyle has done some amazing things in the city and has kept it up with the old powerplant renovation which is going to amazing as well.
NuStyle has created over 1,000 units since 2005 and which totaled nearly $167 Million (1,032 according to their website). If you add this project in, it would be over 1,700 units to downtown. That is probably close to 3,000 more residents in the downtown area.
Assuming this project comes to fruition, there are not a lot of cities the size of Omaha adding 700 units in one urban development. Most of the ones I have seen from midwestern cities lately are for around 200 - 300 units at most.
This seems like a great value value based on cost per apartment.
Kansas City One Light is 315 Units costing $80 million ($20-$22 million from the city, with 50% property tax abatement for 25 years)
Kansas City Two Light is 300 Units costing $105 million ($17 million so far from the city, with 50% property tax abatement for 25 years)
Creighton as a University is also looking to expand its student base with increasing class sizes and this only adds student housing possibilities. I wouldn't be surprised if half of NuStyle's current tenants are or were Creighton students, myself included in the Highline 2.0.
This proposal looks absolutely amazing. I'm interested to see how they turn the hospital's terrible floor plan into apartments, and how it fits in with the Medical library / Dental School / Boys Town.