Orlando Health is in the midst of major expansions across their 'Health Village' found in Downtown South. Their new 10-story, 345,000-square-foot, 190-plus bed patient tower has now gone vertical but its the construction visible from Orange Ave that in the end may have the biggest impact for the passing motorist.
The first phase of the nearly $300million multi-year expansion is the enlarging and redesign of the emergency department. The plan brick facade that is currently visible from Orange Ave will be replaced by a modern glass one. The letters 'Emergency' run along the side of the building, a theme that is echoed in other places throughout the health campus. The glass of the new addition is now being put on. The new emergency department should be open by mid-2014.
Just to the north of the emergency room along Orange Ave is another project. To the passing motorist the construction may look like one big project but this is actually two BIG projects. The Proton Therapy Center at MD Anderson Orlando is being built in underused property along Orange Ave. The 15,000-square-foot proton center is estimated to cost around $25 million,to build. The new centers main item will be a three-story tall MEVION S250 superconducting synchrocyclotron proton accelerator. It will be able to scan up to 30 patients a day once it opens in 2014. The addition of the proton accelerator to Orlando will be a boom for our local health industry. Only ten of the accelerators are in the United States and only 41 in the world.
The health campus is also be branded as a single entity for the first time. This means a lot of new signage in the area surrounding the hospitals.
The first phase of the nearly $300million multi-year expansion is the enlarging and redesign of the emergency department. The plan brick facade that is currently visible from Orange Ave will be replaced by a modern glass one. The letters 'Emergency' run along the side of the building, a theme that is echoed in other places throughout the health campus. The glass of the new addition is now being put on. The new emergency department should be open by mid-2014.
Just to the north of the emergency room along Orange Ave is another project. To the passing motorist the construction may look like one big project but this is actually two BIG projects. The Proton Therapy Center at MD Anderson Orlando is being built in underused property along Orange Ave. The 15,000-square-foot proton center is estimated to cost around $25 million,to build. The new centers main item will be a three-story tall MEVION S250 superconducting synchrocyclotron proton accelerator. It will be able to scan up to 30 patients a day once it opens in 2014. The addition of the proton accelerator to Orlando will be a boom for our local health industry. Only ten of the accelerators are in the United States and only 41 in the world.
The health campus is also be branded as a single entity for the first time. This means a lot of new signage in the area surrounding the hospitals.
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| Rendering via Orlando Health's facebook |
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| The horizontal lines from the rendering are now visible. |
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| Note the new sign at the corner. It has all the hospitals on a single uniformly designed sign. |
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| Rendering via Orlando Health's facebook |
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| Future proton center |
