...to be the UIHC. Not only are they embarking on a truly obscenely priced long range plan that includes not one, but two new towers, they're kick-starting construction of a new Children's Hospital and a ton of other stuff.
Now they want to make the Hospital more friendly and welcoming by making it more accessible, adding two new roads to connect Hawkins Dr. with Grand Ave. This is confusing me- first, they're proposing to extend the entrance drive past Pappajohn Pavillion and Ramp 4 to Grand Avenue. Either by looping around the Fieldhouse (dumping people in the ETC Parking Lot) or going straight through it. (Which would make even less sense to me, but this is the Hospital after all.)
The second option is just weird. They want to extend the road between Boyd and Colloton through to Grand? By removing a chunk of the building? Are we just kyboshing the entire Carver Pavillion then?
I'm all for reaching for the stars and stuff, but trying to be the Mayo Clinic is just a waste of time and money. Mayo pretty much took over a whole city- and a pretty good sized one as well. It's pointless trying to play catch-up, but I suppose that's what the Hospital game is all about when you get right down to it- and after all, why not go for the brass ring? You're the UIHC- the Board of Regents gives you everything you want and then some...
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