A new medical office building proposed by Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital for its main campus will be the focus of the La Grange Plan Commission at a session scheduled for Nov. 14.
Plan commissioners will consider the hospital's request for approval of a site plan to erect a three-story, 42,000-square-foot building in the southwest corner of its property on S Gilbert Rd. The building would be connected to the hospital by an enclosed walkway. The proposed site currently is used for parking.
The site plan was submitted to the Village's community development department this past summer, but action on the request was delayed pending receipt from the hospital of a master plan for land use on its campus. The master plan was delivered to the department last Friday.
Under the master plan, the hospital would demolish an existing professional office building once the new building is constructed, a scenario hospital offcials hope will occur by the end of 2007. Tenants of the existing building would be accommodated in the new facility.
The master plan also addresses other changes being considered by the hospital, including another addition to its main complex. Its most recent addition was a five-story, $80-million patient care center that opened in June.
The Plan Commission in 2003 approved the site plan for the patient care center without a master plan in place, but informed hospital officials at that time that a master plan would be a prerequisite to consideration of any future proposed construction.
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