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West Village Housing Replacement

Graduate and Family Student Housing What’s Happening?

The West Village Housing Replacement Project will demolish the West Village 400 and 500 Court Buildings near Foothill Drive and Sunnyside Avenue. Following demolition, new, higher-density housing will be built for graduate students and students with families, continuing the University’s long tradition of providing these students with an affordable, safe community to reside while at the University of Utah. A phased demolition of the remaining University Student Apartments will take place over the next decade.

A design for the new housing has yet to be finalized; …

Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women’s Cancers

Hunstman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah is pleased to announce a major hospital expansion: The Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women’s Cancers at HCI.

The new patient care facility will extend from the north end of HCI’s buildings on the campus of the U of U in Salt Lake City. Located within the U of U Health medical infrastructure on campus, the expansion will allow the HCI to grow by 220,000 square feet and add 48 new inpatient hospital rooms. It will include four …

The Senator Orrin G. Hatch Center for Proton Therapy at Huntsman Cancer Institute

The Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah will soon offer a new technology to treat cancer patients that provides more targeted radiation therapy—an advantage when treating many tumors in and around vital structures, such as the spinal cord and brain stem, or for certain childhood tumors.

The new equipment delivers proton therapy, which uses a precise beam of protons—only a few millimeters wide—to target tumors. This will become the first proton center in the Mountain West region, and construction on the new facility that will house the …

AMBULATORY CARE COMPLEX

University of Utah Health’s new Ambulatory Care Complex (or ACC) will be a 305,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility that will serve over 100,000 new patients each year and serve as some of the clinical training grounds for the next generation. It will be located south of University of Utah Hospital, across from the Medical Center TRAX Station. It will be accessible from the main hospital entrance as well as the parking garage.

Once it’s built, our new Ambulatory Care Complex will allow us to create more convenient access for patients with seamless …

CRAIG H. NEILSEN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL

Patients going through rehabilitation have unique needs. They also need an expert, caring team of health providers giving specialized care to make sure they have the best recovery possible.

The Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital will be the preeminent destination in the mountain west for patients recovering from and adjusting to life-altering injuries and conditions. With 150,000 square feet, this advanced facility will be a restorative and healing environment designed to speed recovery and improve quality of life for patients after they return home.

This new building will provide state of the …

High Temperature Upgrade

Due to growth on campus over the past 50 years the electrical distribution system and 3 substation need to upgraded to meet demand for load capacity.

The High Temperature Water upgrade is replacing old HTW lines throughout Campus. This is the 5th phase of the project replacing old inefficient lines that feed the majority of the buildings west of the Union and the new Business and Carolyn and Kem Gardner buildings. HTW supplies heat, hot water, and steam to the buildings on Campus. The new lines are much more efficient than …

Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons

A new building named after Carolyn and Kem Gardner will replace Orson Spencer Hall as home to the U’s College of Social and Behavioral Science and numerous associated centers and institutes. Located in the heart of main campus, it will serve as the main classroom building and be home to the Welcome Center, Hinkley Institute, and 14 other departments within the College of Social and Behavioral Science. Garden Commons will also provide a retail store and food/dining experience for students.

A ceremony to mark groundbreaking for the Carolyn and Kem Gardner …

CLEONE PETERSON ECCLES ALUMNI HOUSE

A new place for alumni to call home. Expected to open to the public in late spring 2018

The U is getting a Pac-12 caliber alumni house, and you can be a part of it!

Hundreds of loyal U alumni and friends are creating a lasting legacy by adding their names to the donor wall inside the spectacular new Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House, which opens late spring 2018. Please consider joining the growing list of dedicated and generous alumni who have given $1,000 or more to help make the transformation of the …

Crocker Science Center

New $55 million integrated science teaching and research center. Renovation of existing historic building into teaching and student centered functions and addition of modern research laboratory space.

Building Community, Opportunity, and Innovation

“The best science is always accidental—When you are just talking to somebody and there’s a new idea or a new approach, that’s where all the great ideas come from. So, can you engineer accidents? That’s what this building is all about.”

—Erik M. Jorgensen, Professor of Biology Aims of the Crocker Science Center: Will expand the GTB from 87,000 to 126,000 square feet. To …

Executive Education

The David Eccles School of Business today broke ground on the new Robert H. and Katharine B. Garff Executive Education Building, a 150,000-square-foot building that will house the school’s MBA, Professional MBA, Executive MBA and MBA Online programs. The building will also support an Executive Education Center, an expanded Business Career Services Center and other centers for use by faculty and students.

This new building will come to fruition because of the generosity of several donors, led by a $12 million donation from the children of the philanthropic Garff family. The …

Health Sciences Parking Garage

The new Health Sciences Parking Garage will provide a net increase of approximately 800 stalls, responding to a growing need for additional parking on campus as other lots have been reduced or removed. The location of the new parking structure will be at the south end of the Health Sciences area, directly east of the Medical Plaza Towers. The new 6 level parking structure will be designed to increase parking availability, as well as, traffic flow surrounding the structure. In an effort to protect green space, the optimal way to …