>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]? >
These are excellent questions. Penn-the-hospital could certainly be no less honest with the community. I think many people assumed that the VA physical plant would eventually be taken by the university medical systems. The various current and upcoming wars may have altered previous long range assumptions. It may be that the postal land plans were formed before the never-ending war senario was considered. The hospital expansion plans for the next 50 years may have recently been changed to significantly include westward expansion. I'd like to see all of the 17 or 18 proposals, and I think the community deserves transparent access to these considering how we have all been treated with a remarkable level of contempt! Sincerely, Glenn -----Original Message----- >From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[email protected]> >Sent: Dec 23, 2008 10:41 AM >To: univcity <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [UC] Campus Inn > >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. > > >- - - - - > > > >.................. >UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >---- >You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the >list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see ><http://www.purple.com/list.html>. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
