Upstate Cancer Center Completed Projection Fall, 2013
SYRACUSE -- Construction crews are hard at work installing 550 tons of steel beams at the new Upstate Cancer Center, laying framework for the $50 million dollar project.
When it's complete, the 5-story building will serve adults and children living with cancer, and house out-patient treatments all in one place. There will be a rooftop garden, meditation rooms, and a family resource center -- all additions that will help the center better serve Central New York neighbors.
Right now, the center is scattered around campus in different places. The new center will make treatment easier for patients and their doctors.
"We're going to have radiation, chemotherapy, surgical consultation all located in one building, so the doctors can be together to talk to patients, groups of patients about the best way to treat the cancer which all can be done in one location," says Leslie Kohman, Medical Director of the Upstate Cancer Center.
The target date for completion is fall of 2013.
The beams started to arrive on site Monday. Crews will work to continue installing them throughout the summer. This is the second phase of construction.
"Finally, it's going to get more exciting. People are going to begin to see this beautiful new building take shape," says Kohman.
The construction will employ about 300 people.
Part of the project is paid for by bonds, but Upstate is also conducting a capital campaign that's raised $12.6 million since the fall of 2011.
