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A joint venture has broken ground on a key part of a $2.2 billion hospital expansion in Detroit.
The Henry Ford Hospital expansion project, known as Destination: Grand, is under construction by BTD, a project team of local and national builders that expansion began in 2024.
The JV of Southfield, Mich.-based Barton Malow, New York City-based Turner Construction and Detroit-based Dixon, placed the final beam in the hospital tower on May 14, according to a hospital announcement.
When complete, the tower will be divided into low- and high-rise sections and span 20 stories, according to a Destination: Grand fact sheet. It will contain 432 private patient rooms with advanced technology, according to the announcement.
Five floors of the tower will be dedicated to specialized intensive care units, while the low-rise section of the structure will house 28 operating theaters.
The construction team will add a 1,500-space parking lot; a shared services building that will contain the hospital’s kitchen, pharmacy and laboratory; and a central energy center that will produce clean energy for the facility. This will make Henry Ford Hospital one of the largest all-electric hospitals in the United States, according to the announcement.
The expansion plan is financed by the capital investment of the hospital network, together with philanthropic contributions. One such fundraising campaign, known as “Rising Above, Reaching Beyond,” has raised $241 million, with total contributions reaching $653 million, according to the May 14 announcement.
The hospital expansion is part of the larger, $3 billion The Future of Health: Detroit transformation plan, according to the announcement. The plan aims to transform Detroit’s New Center neighborhood into a walkable community with mixed-use development, according to the project’s website.
Along with the hospital expansion, the Future of Health plan aims to create a new medical research center at Michigan State University that will open in 2027. It will also include affordable housing developments and retail space, according to the Future of Health project page.
According to the announcement, the construction team plans to complete the hospital in 2029.
This is not the only hospital megaproject in the region: A JV of Chicago-based Turner and Walsh finished work on a new project. $1.5 billion Ohio State University Hospital in Columbus in march Turner also began vertical construction at the $900 million Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center expansion in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, that same month.
