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Decided to get out the car this time to take a pic....and WOW! As soon as I was done taking the pic a security truck blocked me in from behind...saying I needed the hospitals permission to take pics due to the terrorist threat....I told him I was taking it for website UP....What a sad day.....

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I'm not sure if the property across the street belongs to them??

The article says the new Heart & Vascular tower will be 10-stories...think it's supposed to be 9. Wonder what the new Medical Education Bldg. will look like??

Hospital expansion ‘on track’

With about 18 months to go, construction on the expansion at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, which dominates Essen Lane near Interstate 10, continues on time, officials say.

Bids to construct a $19 million medical education building on nearby Brittany Drive will be opened June 8, and ground breaking should be around June 18, he said.

Sybrandt said the medical care once provided by the hospital on Airline Highway will be integrated into the Lake’s usual operations. There will not be a separate building, but expansions of the Lake’s facilities are under way.

The most dominant project, the one whose construction activities most often delay motorists on Essen Lane, is the 330,000-square-foot Heart and Vascular Tower.

The 10-floor structure is built upon 564 piers drilled 70 feet in the ground that provide stabilization. The steel-framed structure has been erected. Sybrandt said the construction should be finished by September 2013 and the building outfitted with equipment and ready to open by November 2013.

The new facility will have high-tech radiology, an emergency room specifically aimed at children, and a helipad, which can handle two large Blackhawk helicopters at the same time. During Hurricane Katrina, the hospital could only handle the large helicopter preferred by the military one at a time, he said. Blackhawks carry a half dozen or so patients compared with the usual vehicles that transport only one or two patients. The Blackhawks were forced to hover while one was being unloaded. “If that’s your wife or your child up there waiting to land, and seconds could mean life or death, well, that’s unacceptable,” Sybrandt said.

http://theadvocate.com/home/2931744-125/hospital-expansion-on-track

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OLOL expansion on Essen Lane

*pic taken a few weeks ago

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And another addition getting ready to start....Be sure to check out the new rendering :shades: ...cool looking 4-story bldg. w/ glass facade

OLOL and LSU to break ground on medical center today …

Get the gold shovels: Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center was set to hold a groundbreaking ceremony this morning on the LSU Medical Education and Innovation Center on Brittany Drive, near the OLOL campus. The training facility is one component of a public-private collaboration between the state, OLOL and LSU to move all Baton Rouge-based medical education to the OLOL campus by November 2013. The four-story, 41,000-square-foot building will include classroom space, simulation and research labs, and faculty offices. Gov. Bobby Jindal is among those slated to speak at the groundbreaking. See a rendering of the center and learn more about the project here.

http://www.businessreport.com/section/daily-reportAM

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Why not a more centeralized location??

LSU proposes Perkins location for ‘mini-hospital’

LSU’s outpatient surgery center off Perkins Road would become a “mini-hospital” providing prisoner and general population care when Earl K. Long Medical Center closes in north Baton Rouge, a Jindal administration official said Monday. State Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein said the satellite surgical facility will be turned into a small hospital. This would allow LSU to continue operating its outpatient clinics that serve the Baton Rouge area. Without a hospital affiliation, federal funds could not be generated to finance the LSU clinic operations.

Renovations are under way at the facility located at 9032 Perkins Road near its intersection with Bluebonnet Boulevard. LSU bought the old Vista Surgical Hospital in 2007.

Use of the Perkins Road facility solves two problems facing LSU with closure of EKL in late 2013 when inpatient care and medical education programs move to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center off Essen Lane in south Baton Rouge.

http://theadvocate.com/news/4216093-123/lsu-proposes-perkins-location-for

By law, the LSU hospitals and clinics are required to serve inmates housed in either state or local correctional facilities

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Land purchased for subdivision

Dantin Bruce Development purchased a 16-acre site on Anselmo Lane adjoining Homewood subdivision for the development of a new subdivision. The property was purchased Oct. 3 from American Gateway Bank for $550,000, or about $34,000 per acre. According to Ross Bruce, the first phase will include 39 lots with frontage of about 60 feet. The lots will sell in the $50,000 to $55,000 range, and a “significant number” have been presold. Construction on the development should start within the next 60 days.

http://www.businessreport.com/article/20121029/BUSINESSREPORT0204/310269995

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Yes indeed Antrell!

From the Real Estate Weekly by BusinessReport

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Progress continues on Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center's nine-story Heart and Vascular Tower at the OLOL campus on Essen Lane. The 330,000-square-foot facility is expected to be complete in November 2013. Milton J. Womack Inc. is the general contractor, and VOA+BBA Design Partnership is the architect. You can read more about the Heart and Vascular Tower project at the OLOL website here.

Read more from Business Report here: http://www.businessreport.com/section/businessreport0113#ixzz2DSvdkYN8

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That place looks way bigger than I thought.

Great pics, and that project is a very good thing for the entire region.

I'm kind of looking for the Tulane/BRGeneral partnership to produce some medical offices and classrooms in mid city, though nothing like the scale of work at LSU/OLOL. The new emergency room at the Lake alone will be like nothing we currently have in the region.

Baton Rouge will end up with medical facilities and amenities similar to cities twice its size pretty soon because of those two medical schools.

This is definately something everyone should be thankful for. OLOL and North Oaks are investing in Livigston too. All good things.

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Baton Rouge General plans for spring 2014 opening of Physician Tower

Baton Rouge General recently broke ground on the 115,000-square-foot Physician Tower at its Bluebonnet campus, and says the expansion should be completed in the spring of 2014. Dionne Viator, the hospital's executive vice president and chief business development officer, says the project will bring Baton Rouge General a step closer to achieving its vision of being a fully integrated "campus community." "We recently anticipated a need for expanded surgical capabilities equipped with state-of-the-art technology, and with the guidance of our physicians we have successfully completed these enhancements," she says, noting the recent opening of a new four-room operating suite featuring hybrid heart surgery technology and minimally invasive robotics. "In turn, due to increased demand, we are constructing the new Physician Tower to house outpatient and clinic space for our patients' and physicians' convenience." The new tower is being built on 80 undeveloped acres of the 150-acre Bluebonnet campus. The expansion, first announced in September 2011, is expected to cost around $40 million. WHLC Architecture designed the tower, and Milton J. Womack is the general contractor. Baton Rouge General has more details on the project, as well as renderings and floorplans, here —Steve Sanoski

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Looking forward seeing the new skywalk over Picardy Ave....wonder what might be developed beween Picardy & the R.R. tracks??

 

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Front aerial view of the Bluebonnet Campus Expansion Project featuring the parking garage and skywalk over Picardy Avenue, the Medical Office Building and an internal gallery that connects directly to the hospital.
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^ Id say anything from Essen to Bluebonnet between Picardy and the R R tracks should be dense residential/office. Closer to bluebonnet should be where the future train station will be.

Id like to see more medical offices an towers built along the empty parking lots around OLOL and the open undeveloped land along I-10 between Essen and Bluebonnet.

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^ Id say anything from Essen to Bluebonnet between Picardy and the R R tracks should be dense residential/office. Closer to bluebonnet should be where the future train station will be.

Id like to see more medical offices an towers built along the empty parking lots around OLOL and the open undeveloped land along I-10 between Essen and Bluebonnet.

That would be a dream come true for us. I don't see any type of rail coming to South Baton Rouge for a LONG time.

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^ Id say anything from Essen to Bluebonnet between Picardy and the R R tracks should be dense residential/office. Closer to bluebonnet should be where the future train station will be.

Id like to see more medical offices an towers built along the empty parking lots around OLOL and the open undeveloped land along I-10 between Essen and Bluebonnet.

 

I can dig it Steve :thumbsup:

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LSU Medical Education & Innovation Center on Brittany Drive..... Under Construction

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OLOL Cardiovascular & Heart Tower(under construction) in background

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OLOL Cardiovascular & Heart Tower Under Construction on Essen Ln...(330,000 sq ft) a tall building for 9-stories...only 8 feet shorter than Tiger Stadium & nearly as tall as the 13-story Jacobs Plaza across the street...sorry not best pic; was driving

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