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Regents review $72.5M in early work for University of Iowa patient-care tower; cost, traffic and funding questions raised
Summary
The Boardproperty and facilities committee reviewed four University of Iowa capital projects including $72.5 million of enabling work for a proposed UI Health Care patient tower. Regents pressed university leaders on traffic, projected total tower cost and how enabling work would proceed if the tower was delayed.
University of Iowa officials told the Board of Regentsproperty and facilities committee on June 25 that they planned $72,500,000 in "early work" to ready the UI Hospitals & Clinics (UIHC) campus for construction of a proposed patient-care tower, while also describing parallel projects at McLean Hall, the CAMBUS maintenance facility and Dwayne Banks Baseball Stadium.
The early-work package would fund entrances, road and utility work and other site improvements UIHC leaders said are necessary to keep the hospital operating and to prepare the site for a multiyear tower build. "This project is a $72,500,000 project funded by UI Health Care earnings and equity," presenter Rod Leonard said, noting that roughly $5,000,000 of the budget would address deferred maintenance on the existing hospital.
The committeechaired by Regent Robert Krameralso reviewed a $28,000,000 renovation and addition to the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories (to house computer science), a $23,000,000 expansion of the CAMBUS maintenance facility (partly funded by a Federal…
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