Grandview Medical Center
Two field crewmembers sat at the top of the parking deck to position the tree on top of Grandview Medical Center. Photo by Jessa Pease.
Travelers on U.S. 280 might have noticed something out of the ordinary as they passed Grandview Medical Center on Jan. 16.
To mark a construction milestone, the crews on site hoisted a tree high to the highest point of the parking deck as a part of a topping out ceremony. This tree commemorated the structural completion of both the parking deck and physicians’ office building on the facilities campus.
“It’s an exciting day,” said Keith Granger, president and CEO of Trinity Medical Center. “You see the elevations go up as they have over the last year, and you see all the sudden that we’ve reached this topping out moment. It’s a milestone in many ways. It tells us the project is getting close to its finality. It tells us that the workers such a great job on the project and that they have done it in a safe environment. [I] couldn’t be more excited about what’s happening.”
Brasfield & Gorrie and A.G. Gaston serve as the construction managers for this project. Their work includes the build-out of the 12-story, 1 million-square-foot hospital and the construction of both the 220,000 square-foot physicians’ office building and the 2,900-space parking deck.
Granger admitted that the process has been challenging, but they expect Grandview to open in early October. He guessed Oct. 10 as a tentative date.
Grandview Medical Center’s services will include general surgery, cardiology, cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgery, orthopedic care and joint replacement, gastroenterology and GI surgery, oncology, neurology, emergency services, and trauma care.
