Washington University Medical School Reveals New Campus Plan
Date Posted: November 28, 2016
Posted In: Projects,
From Washington University: Opening of the Mid Campus Center —an office building bringing together administrative services from throughout the Medical Campus — and a significant renovation of Bernard Becker Medical Library are among the first changes coming to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis as part of a new plan to better integrate the campus.
The five-year plan, called Building Campus Connections, will integrate educational services, expand clinical space and improve research and service facilities while continuing to build a cohesive, collaborative environment on the Medical Campus.
“With this strategic plan, our goal is to bring people together in ways they haven’t connected before and to make our campus more inviting for visitors, patients, students and employees,” said Melissa Hopkins, the school’s assistant vice chancellor and assistant dean of operations and facilities management.
The Mid Campus Center, a project of the university and BJC HealthCare, will be fully occupied by April. It is a 12-story office building at 4590 Children’s Place that will house School of Medicine offices for the dean, faculty and administrative staff, human resources and finance. It also will house a School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital joint security center, a new bookstore that includes a FedEx mailing and printing kiosk, and a Kaldi’s coffee shop. A larger FedEx mailing and printing facility will open in the Clinical Sciences Research Building link.
The building of the Mid Campus Center allows BJC to relocate five floors of offices from the Center for Outpatient Health (COH) and various other campus locations, which will allow for more faculty and clinical space at the COH, the Center for Advanced Medicine and other key locations.