Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta recently unveiled the proposed master plan for its new North Druid Hills Campus, which includes a replacement hospital, the Center for Advanced Pediatrics, support buildings and more than 20 acres of greenspace and miles of walking trails and paths on site.
The plans – formed by months of meetings with community members, patient families, physicians, nurses, employees and local officials – will transform an existing landscape of asphalt and one-story, 50-year old office buildings at the intersection of I-85 and North Druid Hills into a pediatric healthcare destination set in a healing, natural landscape.
Architecture and landscape design firms HKS and HGOR Inc. worked with Children’s to take advantage of the acreage and views afforded by the campus’s location.
Anchored by the replacement hospital in the middle of the site, the campus will also feature the Center for Advanced Pediatrics, more than 20 acres of greenspace and miles of trails and paths, and support buildings along the I-85 frontage road. Plans call for 446 beds in two patient towers, with an attached medical office building and a consolidated AFLAC Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.
Additional structures planned for completion by 2026 include a central energy plant that will allow for efficient and sustainable energy on site and ancillary parking decks.
As part of its campus plan, Children’s anticipates investing more than $40 million to help improve public health and safety. Planned investments include funding for significant road improvements nearby, including kicking off the process for redesigning the I-85/North Druid Hills intersection, an improved access point from North Druid Hills Road and improvements on several nearby arterial roads.
Once finalized, campus plans will be submitted to the Atlanta Regional Commission as a Development of Regional Impact. Children’s expects that process to take four to six months. Construction on the campus will likely begin in 2020, with anticipated completion in 2026.
Information: www.choa.org/breakingnewground.
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