The current nursing school building will be turned over to Emory Hospital, which will use the facility to free up space for patient care. It's equivalent in size to the Woodruff Memorial Building-all four wings. Five floors will connect to the Rollins Research Building. Whitehead will stand a story higher than Rollins with two stories below grade. Site work for Whitehead will begin next summer with preliminary utility work.
Plans also call for the demolition or relocation of the old greenhouse currently sitting there.
By December administrators will have decided on a site for the Winship Comprehensive Cancer Center, for which construction will begin in January 2000 and end 22 months later. There are advantages and disadvantages to each. Uppergate has a larger footprint, but it's off the beaten path and not as prominent a spot for a comprehensive cancer center, of which there are only a handful in the country. The Clifton Road site is closer to the main clinic buildings, but a facility there would obscure Building B and reduce the green space fronting Clifton. And we would design the building in such a way that all of the lawn wouldn't go away.