Henry Ford Health System will build a $110-million cancer center in Detroit as part of a $500-million expansion and neighborhood improvement project spanning 300 acres, officials said Monday.

The planned five-story, 144,000 square-foot cancer center in the city's New Center neighborhood will include a rooftop garden and skywalk to connect it to Henry Ford Hospital. The center will consolidate cancer care services on the hospital's south campus near West Grand Boulevard and north of I-94. Officials expected to break ground in spring 2016 and open the center in summer 2018.

Along with the cancer center, future projects call for green space, commercial, retail and housing development. Within the 300-acre neighborhood, Henry Ford will invest in roughly 30 acres, and continue to work to attract businesses, like Cardinal Health, and other developments to the area.

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