KAREN ALLEN wrote:
And if they're going to build a 3 story building in the
3900 block of Spruce, around the corner from 40th and
Pine on a VACANT LOT, why can't they build the Campus Inn
on the vacant lot and renovate the mansion for the other
project???
thank you! I've been wondering the very same thing since
hearing the news about the 3-story building (a transplant
patient facility) behind allegro's near 40th and spruce.
apparently, plans for this 3-story patient facility were in
the works as early as, if not earlier than, february 2006,
when the lot at 40th and pine was already vacant:
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/feb06/trnshse.htm
and it's been reported that plans for the campus inn at 40th
and pine began in spring 07 (after the transplant facility).
in any case, it appears that all this vacant real estate at
this end of 40th street was going to be developed and funded
by penn's hospitals -- not by ucd's 40th street corridor
vision, nor with the intervention of penn praxis. [this
could explain what had been long noted on this list, how
neither ucd nor penn praxis have published anything public
about this hotel...]
but what's unclear is how penn can justify planning and
building these patient care facilities AWAY from all the new
patient care facilities that penn was planning and building.
for example, the perelman center, a state-of-the-art patient
care facility -- connected by a bridge to the penn tower
hotel, btw -- opened this fall on the very boulevard where
all of penn's hospitals are located:
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/perelman/release-advancing-real-time-medicine.html
> Designed by Perkins Eastman/Rafael Vinoly Architects, a
> Joint Venture, the Perelman Center was built to create a
> comfortable and easy-to-navigate environment for patients
> and their families. The soaring glass atrium creates a
> central welcome space adjacent to café and retail space.
> Exam rooms are a spacious 110 square feet, providing
> ample room for family members and friends. Special
> consultation rooms throughout the facility bring doctors,
> nurses and other medical professionals directly to
> patients and their families, eliminating the need for
> visits to different offices around the medical campus.
>
> Additional family waiting rooms offer a comfortable
> retreat for caregivers during appointments, supporting
> research which found that social interaction helps
> patients with cancer live longer. Among other comforts
> are valet parking that puts patients within steps of
> their clinics, and free wireless internet access
> throughout the facility.
...
> The economic impact of the Perelman Center in the
> Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is expected to be $348
> million, and $212 million in the City of Philadelphia.
> When it is fully operational, the building will create
> more than 400 new jobs within Penn Medicine and support
> 2,772 jobs directly and indirectly throughout
> Pennsylvania.
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with all this development of the hosptial complex AT the
hospital complex, and all this concern about patients and
families being in close proximity to each other and to their
doctors, why is a residential area in our neighborhood being
asked to be rezoned for hospital uses? what is the logic
behind this vision at this end of 40th street?
and should we neighbors be appealing to penn-the-hospital
rather than penn-the-academy [with its 17-18 rejected
proposals for the site]?
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UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
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