Panel backs Missouri Baptist patient towers
Next up for Missouri Baptist Medical Center’s 30-year development plan is Board of Aldermen consideration of the hospital’s proposal to add patient towers, a parking garage and other facilities.
By a unanimous voice vote Wednesday night, the Planning and Zoning Commission backed the plan.
Commission approval came despite misgivings by some people who live near the hospital. They told commissioners they are leery of a plan to put a walking trail through eight acres of woods Missouri Baptist owns next to their homes just south of the main hospital grounds. A perceived lack of security was among the issues raised.
Hospital officials said the trail is part of their intent to preserve green space at the edges of the medical center’s property while concentrating buildings in the middle of the 65-acre site.
A seven-story patient tower and a parking garage are part of Missouri Baptist’s first phase of a three-phase plan. Later phases, looking out past 2020, include plans for a pair of nine-story buildings.
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