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lil-bear Burg

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I don't think that they are going to build anything on top of this new garage. I think that they are building the garage first before they build a new building on the parking lot between this garage and the EVMS library. Everyone who either works or studies at EVMS needs a place to park! :thumbsup:

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mikeas Hamlet

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I did a google search and found details about the garage. It is supposed to stop at 8 stories.

Live web cams:

http://www.sbballard.com/webcams.php

Information from a Ghent Neighborhood League Meeting

(http://www.ghentneighborhoodleague.org/public/index.php?name=News&catid=&topic=7&allstories=1)

2. PROPOSED GARAGE EXPANSION BETWEEN REDGATE AND RALEIGH

EVMS/SENTARA, represented by architect Barry E. Moss, partner in Tymoff+Moss Architects; Mark Babashanian, EVMS; another medical center representative and Jim Gildea, Norfolk Planning Department, wants to add an eight-story, 850-space garage expansion to an existing four-story, 1,800-car garage between Redgate and Raleigh avenues. The proposed brick addition, flanked by two towers, would be about 70 to 75 feet in height, possibly the height of the Jones Institute on Brambleton Avenue. The garage would allow for a reassignment of staff parking spaces from other, more southern Medical Center parking locations. Exit/entrance lanes would remain on Raleigh through the existing garage.

The application already had been heard by the Norfolk Design Review Committee earlier this month and Mason Andrews, committee member and immediate past president of the GNL, already had asked the applicant to seek ways to lower the proposed building's height; the applicant at the time said he was willing to set back the top floor by a few feet.

At the July GNL meeting, Mason asked the applicant again for ways to scale down the building physically and visually. Barry Moss said that the following ideas were not workable:

- An increase in height of the existing parking garage to allow a scaling down of the proposed addition would not work because the old garage does not support this structurally

- An exemption that Barry Moss already requested from the mandated 20-foot set-back from the street which would permit a lowering of the proposed building height was not approved; Barry Moss said he would try again.

- A reduction in parking spaces would mean an increase in the already steep, 12-percent slope of the garage ramps.

The applicants, which had not yet contacted the West Ghent Civic League and the Ghent Business Association, agreed that it may be wise to do so.

EVMS/Sentara officials said that in spite of Norfolk's plan for Light Rail, with a planned terminal at the Medical Center, the 850 garage spaces still are a minimum number to accommodate the center's expected 10 to 15 percent growth over the next five to 10 years. -- It would take about a year to build the addition.

The applicant was asking the GNL for approval for an interim amendment to the Medical Center Master Plan. As explained by Gildea, this is part of a public planning process, but not a public hearing. -- The application is expected to be on the Norfolk City Council's September 2007 agenda.

The proposed eight-story building would dwarf existing buildings in the HC-G2 historic district and any other existing building in Ghent along Colley Avenue but may alleviate parking problems around the medical complex. Not known yet is the immediate impact this proposed building may have on surrounding residential properties in the city's historic HC-G2 district for Ghent (i.e. between Olney and Princess Anne roads, Colonial Avenue and Hampton Boulevard).

Since the GNL did not have a quorum, acting GNL president Sharon Plawin said she would convey the information to all board members and get back to the applicants within a few weeks.

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mikeas Hamlet

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http://hamptonroads.com/2009/06/evms-raise...s-budget-200910

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More state funding has come as well, such as $59 million legislators approved last year for a new education and research building.

Lester and other school officials have argued that the school, which has a unique private-public structure, is underfunded by the state when compared with Virginia's other public medical schools, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.

EVMS Board Rector Wayne Wilbanks said the relationships Lester has honed during the past four years have brought in at least $10 million in additional funding a year. "He's brought institutional structure to the school," he said.

Lester said his goals are to oversee the opening of the school's $80 million building - construction will begin this fall - and to strengthen relationships with community partners. He also hopes to attract more state funding for the school.

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Rokk Unincorporated Area

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I am sure that this topic has been discussed before, but why don't EVMS and ODU work out a deal to merge? Being a state school would benefit EVMS in terms of funding, right? And wouldn't ODU like to have a medical school to boost its standing and make it a more attractive school overall? I guess these are dumb questions, but it just seems like these two school would be better off if they got married to each other.

At any rate, it is nice to see the surface parking lots at EVMS being replaced with a garage and a new school building.

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I am sure that this topic has been discussed before, but why don't EVMS and ODU work out a deal to merge? Being a state school would benefit EVMS in terms of funding, right? And wouldn't ODU like to have a medical school to boost its standing and make it a more attractive school overall? I guess these are dumb questions, but it just seems like these two school would be better off if they got married to each other.

At any rate, it is nice to see the surface parking lots at EVMS being replaced with a garage and a new school building.

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brikkman Burg

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Recently, the parking authority of EVMC decided to charge us an additional 20 dollars a month for the employees to park. I guess the price is now 40 bucks to park (was 20 being paid by the tendants of EVMC, Sentara, CHKD, EVMS, Medical Tower). According to them, to recover deficits?????????????????????????????????????????So instead of absorbing that (at least EVMS), has decided to past the second $20 over to its employees to take out there checks every month.

See what fun parking decks brings people....

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supernoga Unincorporated Area

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Recently, the parking authority of EVMC decided to charge us an additional 20 dollars a month for the employees to park. I guess the price is now 40 bucks to park (was 20 being paid by the tendants of EVMC, Sentara, CHKD, EVMS, Medical Tower). According to them, to recover deficits?????????????????????????????????????????So instead of absorbing that (at least EVMS), has decided to past the second $20 over to its employees to take out there checks every month.

See what fun parking decks brings people....

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varider Town

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Yeah it doess look nice.. I wish Norfolk would start to conceal more of the parking garages in buildings like dominion enterprises and wells fargo. Fort Norfolk Plaza is a mess, this isn't too bad because it's tall and looks nice anyway, but I think the city could have more effiecent land use polices.

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mikeas Hamlet

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From the Ghent Neighborhood League Meeting Minutes:

http://www.ghentneighborhoodleague.org/pub...cle&sid=316

EVMS project proposal presentation:

Presenters Steve Wright, principal of Hanbury, Evans, Wright, and Viattas, and Mark Babashanian, EVMS vice president for administration and finance, came to discuss the EVMS Medical Educational and Research Building to be built along Colley Avenue. This "silver-rated" project is to start in September 2009 and be completed in August of 2011 and will be white trim and red brick. This new facility will provide much needed classroom and research space for EVMS. This project is part of the master plan with the city. They will be loosing 130 parking spaces from this lot. Additional parking levels were added to the under-construction parking garage in expectation of building this facility which should make-up for the lost parking spaces. The building will lie along Colley Avenue in order to create a more pedestrian environment. There will be a green space on the other side of the building. They will not be breaking the medium along Colley Avenue, forcing trucks to head south and make right-hand turns into the facility. The trucks will be smaller

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mlsimons Whistle-Stop

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These recent developments for EVMS have been really exciting. This is going to really make EVMS look and feel like a more urban upscale environment. Not to mention it really fills is some of the much needed surface parking infill spots. Colley Ave will really look complete as well as having a strong mixture of both the old/new. It just brings a good mix to the neighborhood.

EVMS and Ghent are already married together...so its like EVMS just brought home some roses and wine and Ghent's eyebrows are raised in excitement!!!!!!!!!!

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