As the University of Iowa reshapes its west campus to accommodate a massive new $1 billion inpatient tower, a $249 million Health Sciences Academic Building and other renovation and expansion projects across its health care and athletic operations — administrators are eyeing not one, but now two, new parking ramps.
The Board of Regents next week will consider a UI request to spend up to $60 million on a 1,000- to 1,200-stall parking ramp in the lot across the street from Carver-Hawkeye Arena, west of the College of Dentistry.
That ramp would join the $75 million, five-level, 985-stall Hawkeye Ramp the university is building just north of Kinnick Stadium.
“With the addition of the new Health Sciences Academic Building and new UIHC Inpatient Bed Tower alone, there is a need for 500 to 700 stalls on the west side of campus to meet current demand and anticipated growth,” according to the university’s request for regent approval. “The project would help alleviate parking pressure that exists on the west campus.”
Given ongoing and upcoming construction on the west side is eliminating some parking — including the UI Hospitals and Clinics’ parking ramp 1 to make way for the new inpatient tower — the net parking gain from the two ramps would be less than the total stalls being constructed.
If approved, the new parking ramp between Carver and the dental college would add a net 800 parking stalls. The net gain from the new Hawkeye Ramp, currently under construction by Kinnick, is 100 stalls, according to board documents.
The parking plan for UI’s west side would be to designate UIHC parking ramps 2, 3, and 4 for patients only and move parking for athletics events, dentistry services and the Veterans Affairs hospital to the north of nearby Newton Road.
That would create space for UIHC growth near its future 842,000-gross-square-foot inpatient tower, planned for property currently occupied by Hospital Parking Ramp 1, the water tower and the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center.
“Additional space is also needed for the new Goschke Family Wrestling Training Center,” according to the regents’ request — referencing a new $31.6 million, 38,500-square-foot wrestling practice and operations facility connected via underground tunnel to Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
To pay for the new dental ramp, the university would tap its “parking improvement and replacement fund" and potentially collaborate with the Iowa City VA Medical Center, ”which is interested in leasing space from this ramp, which would significantly help fund the project.“
The university has said it plans to cover the cost of the Hawkeye Ramp with debt.
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The Board of Regents next week will consider a UI request to spend up to $60 million on a 1,000- to 1,200-stall parking ramp in the lot across the street from Carver-Hawkeye Arena, west of the College of Dentistry.
That ramp would join the $75 million, five-level, 985-stall Hawkeye Ramp the university is building just north of Kinnick Stadium.
“With the addition of the new Health Sciences Academic Building and new UIHC Inpatient Bed Tower alone, there is a need for 500 to 700 stalls on the west side of campus to meet current demand and anticipated growth,” according to the university’s request for regent approval. “The project would help alleviate parking pressure that exists on the west campus.”
Given ongoing and upcoming construction on the west side is eliminating some parking — including the UI Hospitals and Clinics’ parking ramp 1 to make way for the new inpatient tower — the net parking gain from the two ramps would be less than the total stalls being constructed.
If approved, the new parking ramp between Carver and the dental college would add a net 800 parking stalls. The net gain from the new Hawkeye Ramp, currently under construction by Kinnick, is 100 stalls, according to board documents.
The parking plan for UI’s west side would be to designate UIHC parking ramps 2, 3, and 4 for patients only and move parking for athletics events, dentistry services and the Veterans Affairs hospital to the north of nearby Newton Road.
That would create space for UIHC growth near its future 842,000-gross-square-foot inpatient tower, planned for property currently occupied by Hospital Parking Ramp 1, the water tower and the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center.
“Additional space is also needed for the new Goschke Family Wrestling Training Center,” according to the regents’ request — referencing a new $31.6 million, 38,500-square-foot wrestling practice and operations facility connected via underground tunnel to Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
To pay for the new dental ramp, the university would tap its “parking improvement and replacement fund" and potentially collaborate with the Iowa City VA Medical Center, ”which is interested in leasing space from this ramp, which would significantly help fund the project.“
The university has said it plans to cover the cost of the Hawkeye Ramp with debt.
UI eyes second new west-side parking ramp near Carver-Hawkeye
As the University of Iowa reshapes its west campus to accommodate a massive new $1 billion inpatient tower, $249 million Health Sciences Academic Building, and other renovation and expansion projects across its health care and athletic operations — administrators are eyeing not one, but now two...
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