Very cool - although I am dubious of any project that has anything to do with Northside Regeneration. This, however, actually seems to have legitimate backers.
I'll also call attention to the fact that the rendering seems to place this closer to the intersection of 18th and Cole (the comm towers give it away), but that's not unusual as far as renderings go.
I hate to toot my own horn, but I've been saying here often that St. Louis needed a 4-year public medical and law school.
While this may not be "public", at least it's a medical school to be located in the city that may be more accessible to many despite socio-economic status.
I hate to toot my own horn, but I've been saying here often that St. Louis needed a 4-year public medical and law school.
While this may not be "public", at least it's a medical school to be located in the city that may be more accessible to many despite socio-economic status.
We have a 2 medical schools in the City (one which as offered free tuition to HH under 80K), and a dental school and multiple schools of nursing.
and this same group announced a same price tag medical school building over a year ago in Puerto Rico and nothing has moved anywhere
I'd feel better if this was associated with WashU
Wow. This would be a very big deal if it is successful. Some states have has few as one medical school in the entire state, so to potentially have 3 in the city of St. Louis alone is huge. Would generate a lot of downstream economic activity as 600 med students would need apartments, patronize restaurants, etc. Many highly paid staff as well. Then they want to build a sizeable medical center, etc. It's quite ambitious and would be a big deal nationally in the medical community, honestly.
However, I am a bit skeptical that they could open in 2022. That seems very optimistic to me when they haven't even broken ground. The admissions process for medical school alone takes about a year. Will they be ready to start taking medical school applications in a year from this summer? Doubtful.
Then they talk about having a residency. Setting up a residency is another highly regulated process that would take a long time to set up and require a very sizable full service hospital. A three bed "starter hospital" isn't nearly big enough to support a residency. A 200 bed hospital would be more adequate, but still on the smaller side.
I hate to toot my own horn, but I've been saying here often that St. Louis needed a 4-year public medical and law school.
While this may not be "public", at least it's a medical school to be located in the city that may be more accessible to many despite socio-economic status.
We have a 2 medical schools in the City (one which as offered free tuition to HH under 80K), and a dental school and multiple schools of nursing.
and this same group announced a same price tag medical school building over a year ago in Puerto Rico and nothing has moved anywhere
I'd feel better if this was associated with WashU
I am fully aware of the two great local PRIVATE medical schools. How could anyone miss them?
In my opinion, St. Louis has always needed PUBLIC (albeit competitive) medical and law schools.
Privates giving free or discounted tuition to a few students is generous, but, it isn't the same as having a publically-funded medical school also graduating doctors.
Most major cities/regions in the U.S. have a public medical school with an attached or assigned teaching hospital. A region of 3-million people should have one in order to help enhance the local medical workforce and intellectual pipeline.
If Ponce comes to fuition, it too will be PRIVATE, however, it will have an awesome mission. Homer G. Phillips hospital, publically-funded hospital, used to play a similar role. It trained many Black doctors and nurses domestically and from the Caribbean - especially Haiti - during Jim Crow America.
I personally wish an entity such as UM or Harris-Stowe was affiliated with this venture. But I do like Claycos involvement. Bob Clark won't let foolishness sour his reputation. This does seem to have some hallmarks of Vatterot. We'll see. Still...if this campus gets off the ground as planned, it's going to be a plus for the city and region.
This will be long but for those who don’t have BSJ
HEALTH CARE
Medical school planned for former Pruitt-Igoe site
Adjacent hospital development has stalled, but school calls projects independent
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PONCE HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY
By Jacob Kirn
Economic Development Editor, St. Louis Business Journal
Mar 6, 2020, 8:33am CST
Updated 11 hours ago
A for-profit university said it will build a medical school on the southeast end of the former Pruitt-Igoe site in north St. Louis. A three-bed hospital development targeted for the west side of the site has stalled, but the school said its development is not contingent on that NorthSide Regeneration facility.
Ponce Health Sciences University officials said they will break ground on a 150,000-square-foot, $80 million facility this fall or winter after getting accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and reaching a deal with NorthSide, which controls the site, for a land lease. Officials gave a tentative opening date of fall 2021. Clayco is the design-builder; the CEO of that construction firm, Bob Clark, called the development "very exciting."
Ponce's leader, President David Lenihan, said the school would serve up to 1,200 students and create positions for up to 120 faculty members and staff.
The university, with a medical school campus in Puerto Rico, targets students who may have been rejected by other medical schools. Tuition for 2019-2020 is $37,710, with a total estimated cost of education of $58,047.
Ponce already offers classes for a master of science in medical sciences at the Globe building in downtown St. Louis, 710 N. Tucker Blvd. Lenihan said there are currently 17 students enrolled there.
He said St. Louis was chosen for the next medical school because "we have enough doctors in Clayton."
"My career has been about how do you create opportunities for people who've been overlooked?" Lenihan said. "You do that by building these facilities in areas where there's a need for health care."
He said money for the development would come from Ponce and its parent company, New York-based University Ventures, which invests in innovations to higher education.
The executive director of the city's development agency, Otis Williams, said he would welcome any development on the old Pruitt-Igoe site.
City aldermen in October OK'd $6.42 million in tax increment financing subsidies for the $20 million hospital project, but they included a requirement that NorthSide prove financing by the end of 2019. It could not, and got an extension until August.
For a second phase, which would include the medical school, another $1.6 million in TIF was to be available. Developers were to provide evidence of financing by the end of 2021 and complete the second phase by the end of 2023, according to the agreement with the city.
Lenihan said although the projects are distinct, the medical school would like to put students into residency slots at the hospital.
He said until then, it will place students at other facilities.
Another tally for the N. Jefferson route of the N/S Metrolink collum. I wish them the best but I would be SHOCKED if this is open with students enrolled by Fall 2021.
Also maybe residencies could be completed at the new downtown west hospital while the rest of the McKee hospital comes together. (Although in reality this is probably wishful thinking for both)
I hate to toot my own horn, but I've been saying here often that St. Louis needed a 4-year public medical and law school.
While this may not be "public", at least it's a medical school to be located in the city that may be more accessible to many despite socio-economic status.
We have a 2 medical schools in the City (one which as offered free tuition to HH under 80K), and a dental school and multiple schools of nursing.
and this same group announced a same price tag medical school building over a year ago in Puerto Rico and nothing has moved anywhere
I'd feel better if this was associated with WashU
I am fully aware of the two great local PRIVATE medical schools. How could anyone miss them?
In my opinion, St. Louis has always needed PUBLIC (albeit competitive) medical and law schools.
Privates giving free or discounted tuition to a few students is generous, but, it isn't the same as having a publically-funded medical school also graduating doctors.
Most major cities/regions in the U.S. have a public medical school with an attached or assigned teaching hospital. A region of 3-million people should have one in order to help enhance the local medical workforce and intellectual pipeline.
If Ponce comes to fuition, it too will be PRIVATE, however, it will have an awesome mission. Homer G. Phillips hospital, publically-funded hospital, used to play a similar role. It trained many Black doctors and nurses domestically and from the Caribbean - especially Haiti - during Jim Crow America.
I personally wish an entity such as UM or Harris-Stowe was affiliated with this venture. But I do like Claycos involvement. Bob Clark won't let foolishness sour his reputation. This does seem to have some hallmarks of Vatterot. We'll see. Still...if this campus gets off the ground as planned, it's going to be a plus for the city and region.
What would it require for UMSL to become more like UMKC?
Has anyone heard of a ground breaking for this new medical school? Here it is mid-October 2020 and I, at least, haven't heard of any progress. If they hope to open in 2022 they better get busy! Tied in with that was a mini (three bed) hospital. Any word on that?
Has anyone heard of a ground breaking for this new medical school? Here it is mid-October 2020 and I, at least, haven't heard of any progress. If they hope to open in 2022 they better get busy! Tied in with that was a mini (three bed) hospital. Any word on that?
Don't know, but I hope they get their two walls stabilized better this time, or they will have to start all over again...!
The university is planning an $80 million north St. Louis branch, part of the NorthSide Regeneration footprint led by developer Paul McKee. Construction, led by Clayco, is slated to start in early 2023 and wrap up by late 2024 or 2025, Lenihan said. He said the university has about 35 faculty members now but projects it will eventually employ 300 faculty.
Nice to see Mercy get involved with a sizable City project. Could be a decent project for Greater STL to get behind too.
The university is planning an $80 million north St. Louis branch, part of the NorthSide Regeneration footprint led by developer Paul McKee. Construction, led by Clayco, is slated to start in early 2023 and wrap up by late 2024 or 2025, Lenihan said. He said the university has about 35 faculty members now but projects it will eventually employ 300 faculty.
Nice to see Mercy get involved with a sizable City project. Could be a decent project for Greater STL to get behind too.
This one was shared previously:
NGA construction bringing investment to the area! Love it!! I’m also proud as my little island 🏝 of PR is investing in the city a call home now!
Great to see. Mercy partnering with Ponce & Northside adds serious legitimacy to both.
Construction starting early 2023? Not that far away, actually, although I'm still impatient with Northside's glacier progress... Still, great news here. Cheers.
I know it's a long shot, and I'm very skeptical of this myself, but is there any chance 2023 is the year we finally start seeing some real Northside Regeneration movement?
^ there is a lot of northside movement, mostly within a half mile to mile north of Delmar all across the city
As far as the regeneration scam, not now that their paid for alderman lost her re election.
^^ I'm going to say no. Outside of doing a land deal with McKee, this project seems to mostly be outside of his realm with partners and institutions that actually have some chops. He still can't get his little 3-bed clinic open.
He just needs to start offloading land to more capable people and admit he the only thing he really succeeded at was letting much of the remaining Near North Side's history and architecture slip away. Sure the NGA is coming, but the only reason the land was there for that was because he let everything else rot and crumble for years.
