MSU wants to build more than one research facility in Detroit

[Airforceguy]

This could be a major asset for Detroit if developed correctly. It could be our own version of Chicago's Illinois Medical District.


MSU wants to build more than one research facility in Detroit

What is happening right now as the center plans to be completed in 2027?


We already have a growing number of nurses and doctors at Henry Ford and we’ll be growing our presence with students. In the next 18 to 24 months, you’ll see more educational capability online in Detroit. We’ll get that K-12 program working and really start focusing on the social work and social determinants of help research and programming. We’re really bringing the full weight and capacity of MSU to bear in the city. In the next 12 months, we’ll see more clinical engagement between our two organizations as well.


Is the research center the pinnacle of the partnership?


This is all a more gradual, mission-driven arrival than a big bang. You will continually see MSU more and more in Detroit. The site for the research building will hold two more buildings of that size [[335,000 square feet). We’ll start planning the second one as we open up this one. We think we’ll need a second research building and 10 years out, we think the site will have one million square feet of laboratory space. That’s different for Detroit. Detroit is one of the largest U.S. cities without a true academic medical center. We’re raising up that idea and creating one. That’s a long-term goal, for Detroit to have a Johns Hopkins or UCLA.

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/conver...medical-center

[Hypestyles]

hopefully MSU and their donors fund it themselves. This should have happened decades ago, however. There's plenty of land space for Wayne State, WCCD, U. of M., and now MSU to have a presence in Detroit proper.