UA, City of Phoenix Approve Partnership

                                                                                                                                                         PHOTO COURTESY THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

The University of Arizona, anchor tenant of the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, and the

City of Phoenix have entered into an agreement to expand the university’s presence

on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus.

The agreement approved by the Phoenix City Council on June 17 calls for the university, Banner Health and any potential development partners, to develop up to five acres on the biomedical campus aligned with the City Council-adopted Comprehensive Master Plan. Included in the agreement is the planning and development of an academic and innovative outpatient primary care clinic that will be designed to advantage all of the new advances and technology to improve patient care. This 40,000 to 60,000 square-foot clinic will be jointly planned and developed by the UA and Banner Health.

The UA College of Medicine – Phoenix began in 2007 in the Historic buildings that once were Phoenix Union High School, as well as the Arizona Biomedical Collaborative research building. In 2012, the 220,000 square foot Health Sciences Education Building opened. The UA Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s outpatient center is set to open on the campus in August, while the 10-story Biosciences Partnership research building is scheduled to open by 2017.