More details of Intermountain Health's urban hospital plan are coming to light as the proposal goes through a rezoning process.
SALT LAKE CITY — Bentley Peay insists that Intermountain Health sees the old Sears site in midtown Salt Lake City as the perfect place to set up a new hospital not just in the next few years but for decades to come, as a way to serve areas in and around the city.
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission voted 7-3 to give a favorable recommendation of Intermountain's rezoning request to turn almost 9 acres of land at that address from aThe commission's vote included that the use of a hospital and ambulance services be considered as "conditional uses" that will be reviewed further by the Salt Lake City Council.
The location has enough space for a downtown hospital but is also close enough to freeways and major roads to get ambulances in and out of the hospital. It's near public transportation and near where new development is already happening. As you build a hospital, you become a part of the community, and so it should be expected of us that we're making these connections.Heather Wall, the CEO and administrator of Intermountain's LDS Hospital in the Avenues, said the new hospital has the potential to bring in about 1,700 employees along with a few hundred patients or families every day.
It's unclear what that means for LDS Hospital. An Intermountain spokesman told KSL.com that "no decisions have been made" yet on the future of the site in the Avenues, adding that it's still possible that it's used in the future along with the new site.The rezoning would allow Intermountain to construct a bigger building on the lot, which is pivotal for project planning.
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