University of Michigan Expands Health Services
NORTHVILLE, Mich. — Construction on Northville Park Place, a retail and mixed-use development project, will begin early this year in Michigan. The construction site is located at the former Northville Psychiatric Hospital, a 400-plus acre campus that closed in 2003 and was sold by the state years ago to two different owners.
An 82-acre parcel is owned by REIS-Northville, a joint venture of Bloomfield Hills, Ill.-based REI Investment Group and Schostak Brothers & Co., headquartered in Livonia, Ill. The site will be redeveloped into the 500,000-square-foot Northville Park Place, which will be anchored by a $39 million clinic from University of Michigan Health System (UMHS), and is slated for completion in 2014.
Northville Health Center will take up 100,000 sq. ft. of the development, which will also include commercial space. It will replace the health system’s Livonia Health Center — which currently serves more than 30,000 patient visits each year — as the system expands primary and specialty care for children and adults in Greater Detroit.
“We strive to create the ideal patient care experience and part of that experience is convenience,” said Jeanne D. Rizzo, executive director of Ambulatory Care Services for UMHS, in a statement. “With this expansion, we will be able to provide additional services, as well as UMHS expertise and quality care, in the Northville area.”
The U-M Hospitals & Health Centers has grown in the last two years, with the opening of a new children’s and women’s hospital, an expansion of the adult emergency department and the introduction of a new computer system for patient care and billing. In addition to the Northville Health Center project, an adult inpatient expansion project and Neuroscience Hospital were both approved in 2012, with a target opening date in 2014. The U-M’s Faculty Group Practice, a 1,600-member physician group, currently manages 1.8 million patient visits at outpatient clinics throughout Southeast Michigan.
Pontiac, Mich.-based George W. Auch Co. is the construction management firm for the Northville Park Place project, working on the first phase of redevelopment for the project. The building is being designed by Hobbs + Black Architects, located in Ann Arbor, Mich., and the engineering firm is Professional Engineering Associates, headquartered in Troy, Mich.
Northville Township purchased the remaining 350-acre parcel of the Northville Psychiatric Hospital campus in 2009, with plans to eventually build a $24.5 million community fitness center, including a swimming pool and tennis courts. However, it still needs an estimated $9 to $13 million in order to demolish the 15 remaining hospital buildings and clean up the site, which also includes two miles of underground tunnels.