Hospital Hill activity

[Chris Stritzel]

5-story, 35-unit apartment building is planned on the parking lot at 2534 Holmes. Parking will be subterranean. Travis Wilson/VeritasAD is listed as the architect. No renderings yet as the application on Compass (May 1st) was for a Development Assistance Team. I'll be looking for future Compass applications on this subject.

Couple this with the other big projects nearby, the neighborhood will have quite a bit of activity in the coming years.
https://compasskc.kcmo.org/EnerGov_Prod ... =locations

[langosta]

Compass does not work for me still

[FangKC]

The building at 2020-22 Charlotte is being renovated by University Health-Truman Medical Center to be University Health Recovery Health Clinic.

https://fox4kc.com/health/university-he ... nt-center/

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.087455, ... &entry=ttu

[FangKC]

UMKC breaks ground on $145M building in Health Sciences District

The University of Missouri-Kansas City launched work on a $145 million addition to its Health Sciences District, and the school’s chancellor emphasized that “this is just the beginning.”

UMKC broke ground Wednesday on a five-story, 160,000-square-foot building at 25th and Charlotte streets as it started its biggest capital investment ever, the school announced in a release. The new Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building will support state-of-the-art education for up-and-coming health care providers, facilitate more interdisciplinary research partnerships and strengthen collaborations with surrounding neighborhoods.
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https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... 2&empos=p5

[moderne]

Got short changed by the legislature. The Dental School wanted funding for one new building to put everything in. Now they will be split between the old building and this new building a block down hill.

[dukuboy1]

really like to see activity like this in the area. Would love to see it continue to benefit health care & Health care research, as well as the continued expansion of medical care facilities as well. With Truman Med, UMKC Med & Dental schools and Children's Mercy all in that area with space to grow. Could be nice health science education & research facilities bookend East & West with KU Med growth being the West side.

More investments of these higher education type jobs to the area will be a big plus.

[FangKC]

UMKC's $145M building in Health Sciences District will inject growth in metro, chancellor says



The University of Missouri-Kansas City expects the largest capital investment in its history — underway on Hospital Hill — to bolster the school's status as a research university and inject job growth into the metro.

Plans and fundraising for the $145 million Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building, in the Health Sciences District at 25th and Charlotte streets, have been underway since 2022. UMKC Chancellor Mauli Agrawal said the building was necessary to update the school's 50-year-old dental school facilities and enhance medical school and biomedical offerings. It's a crucial piece for UMKC to become a higher-ranked research university.
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When the building opens in fall 2026, Agrawal anticipates that it will create faculty and staff positions in research and the university’s biomedical program, which launched last year. Although UMKC’s dentistry and medical schools always generate an “oversubscribed” number of applications, Agrawal said, the building and its offerings probably will boost that number even more. It also will play a role in attracting more top-level faculty.

UMKC will tap the innovation building in its pursuit of Carnegie Classification R1 university, a status given to universities with the highest level of research activity, dependent on a school’s spending on research and the number of doctorates it awards annually.

The University of Kansas and University of Missouri, along with around 150 universities nationwide, have earned this status. UMKC, ranked as an R2 university for high research activity, hopes to achieve R1 next year.
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The Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building is just one piece of a larger mosaic that will inject job growth and development in the Health Sciences District and throughout the metro, Agrawal said. UMKC officials have long said this project could yield billions of dollars in metro jobs and economic impact.
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“If you can imagine maybe 10 years from now, a lot of tall buildings that create all kinds of jobs, all the way from neurosurgeons to people who take care of the laundry,” Agrawal said. “We need jobs in the center of the city, and (the Healthcare Deliver and Innovation Building) is one way where we can create this whole cascade of jobs very close to a lot of communities that have been more challenged economically.”
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https://www-bizjournals-com.kclibrary.i ... rawal.html

[beautyfromashes]

I’ve heard there’s some drama on hospital hill right now. Childrens Mercy CEO recently “retired” but it seems the conflict was between the hospitals connections to universities. Right now, they partner with UMKC but major donors want them to switch to KU Med. I’m not sure of the nuance or positive/negatives with each, but it seems to have caused a major conflict.