As Atrium Health and Wake Forest Baptist seek public funds for a transformational medical school campus and innovation district in Charlotte, neighbors worry about the projectâs effects on surrounding communities.
Whatâs happening: The health care systems are seeking to rezone 14.28 acres in Midtown for a state-of-the-art medical school campus.
** Theyâre also asking for $75 million from the city and county to fund infrastructure upgrades like new streets and utilities.*
Among other amenities , the rezoning for the campus would allow for four towers, street-level retail for restaurants and other businesses, an education building, apartments and a hotel.
Yes, but: In a recent letter to the city and county, the Housing Justice Coalition and the Southern Piedmont Central Labor Council said in its current form, Atriumâs plan leaves âa lot to be desired.â
** "This project has the potential to attract more jobs, drive property values higher, and thus add to a worsening housing crisisâŚ" the groups wrote.*
clt says putting it on our campus and have the students train at university atrium seems easier
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The Charlotte area is lucky to have the Levines. Itâs incredible how much stuff around town bears their name.
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Thank you chancellor DuBois for allowing our city to be taken over. You allowed the UNC system to back you down. Proud to have Chancellor Gabber in charge now.
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This development will have no impact on the housing crisis. There is no housing on the property currently and no one is being displaced.
If it raises property values higher so what? Thatâs the way the market works. Housing prices go up and go down based on many factors.
This is likely some groups trying to peel off funds for their own agendas since they know massive amounts of money are being spent on this development.
As far as the city spending money for property improvements being questioned, how stupid! This isnât a sports stadium. This is a school of medicine and very valuable for the city as a whole. Anyone not wanting or even expecting the city to invest in this is living in another world.
As far as putting it on our campus you do realize that WFBH and Atrium merged right? They are not putting it on our campus.
Our campus WOULD be a great place for a second school of medicine if the UNC system gets their heads out of their asses.
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I couldnât agree more Gassman!
- The Center City Vision Plan is a partnership between nonprofit Charlotte Center City Partners, the city and Mecklenburg County, and itâs a non-binding, aspirational document.
Here are some of the key ideas:
Large redevelopment projects
The plan outlines visions for some of the biggest redevelopments happening near Uptown.
For example, the document envisions the future medical school and innovation district in midtown as connected to the surrounding neighborhoods and Uptown through transit, open space and aligned street networks.
- It also encourages the development of a bioscience and health incubator at the campus, career pathway programs and partnerships with local schools and other initiatives to benefit Charlotte residents.
Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health are merging.
Whatâs happening: The health care systems will become Advocate Health, and will be headquartered in Charlotte. The board of directors for both unanimously approved the move, which is subject to regulatory review.
** Wake Forest University School of Medicine, which will also be based in Charlotte, will be Advocate Healthâs academic core.*
ANOTHER name change?
Glad to see some institutions arenât afraid to change namesâŚlike underwear.
Well, looks like another medical school gets to open in NC, but not here for Charlotte. This time for Methodist, which is nowhere near the size of Charlotte.
Thanks Dubois, you sycophant loser.
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Methodist will be focused on improving healthcare in Fayetteville and other rural areas. Similar to what ECU was meant to do in Greenville.
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Only thing worse than this is having ECU fans who canât name two blood types making fun of us for not having a Med School.
We should be made fun of for not having a medical school program. Itâs a failure of every administration to date and clearly deeply rooted in the State University System Leadership preventing our University.
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While I get tired of the chapel
Hill holding us down in sports argument because itâs far more plausible that we have just sucked totally on our own, it is painfully clear with academic funding and strategic academic decisions that the UNC system has done everything it can not so much to hold us back but to make sure we donât get in the way of Charlotte funding and perspectives that protect Chapel Hill and to a lesser degree NC state.
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Guess Charlotte just continues to be the playground for all other universities and their professional programs, while we sit and twiddle our thumbs.
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Beyond frustrating!!
Thatâs ridiculous. Do I need to send another Chancellor Cuck email?
At what point do we finally stand up to our Triangle overlords?
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This story drives we crazy. Does our leadership even care or are they just going through the motions? We need a medical school and a law school. Charlotte graduates need to be running this city and state yet we continue to sit on our hands giving away future wealth and opportunity.