$17 MILLION PROJECT FOR HOSPITAL WING TO START CONSTRUCTION.Byline: Susan Abram Staff Writer BURBANK - Construction of a $17 million medical office building is set to begin along one of the city's most visible corridors as part of an expansion project at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center is a hospital in Burbank, California, USA. The hospital has 455 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. It's adress is: 501 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91505. . The 73,000-square-foot building, to be erected at Buena Vista Street and Alameda Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. Avenue, will house several physicians' offices, as well as a pharmacy and a diagnostic imaging center. The project will include 361 surface parking spaces. Demolition is under way on the apartment buildings and 12 homes on four acres along Buena Vista, where the Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Providence are an order of Roman Catholic sisters founded in 1843 by Mother Emilie Gamelin. They are headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, and have missions in nations all over the world, including El Salvador, the Philippines, and the United States. once lived. The project is set to be complete by next spring. ``At this time, there is insufficient medical office space near the medical center,'' said hospital spokesman Dan Boyle Dan Boyle may refer to:
The building is part of a $151 million expansion effort at the medical center at 501 S. Buena Vista St. There, a 200,000-square-foot Northeast building will house a laboratory, imaging department, surgical wing, intensive care, obstetrics obstetrics (ŏbstĕ`trĭks), branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth (see birth), and the time after childbirth. and neonatal units, as well as 128 private patient rooms. It is expected to be complete by 2005. The office building is about 100 percent leased out, Boyle said. Project Manager Joe Kragelund, of HDR (1) (High Data Rate) A wireless data technology from QUALCOMM that provides up to a 2.4 Mbps data rate in a standard 1.25MHz CDMA voice channel. HDR can be used to enhance data capabilities in existing cdmaOne networks or in stand-alone data networks. Architects of Pasadena said the medical office building's facade will complement the rest of the hospital. ``It's meant to be complementary to the Northeast tower,'' Kragelund said. ``It has turned out very nice. We have quite a bit of glass and some newer materials. From a medical office standpoint, we do have curved elements in the building.'' The Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. Versateller will remain but will be relocated on the site, Kragelund said. Plans for a second medical office building, which will stand five stories high, also is in the works, Kragelund said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Heavy machinery moves the rubble remaining after the razing of homes along Buena Vista Street in Burbank Friday. Phil McCarten/Staff Photographer |
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