This should be pretty impressive. The OUHSC campus already has a pretty nice OU Physicians clinic building, just opened last year. It's now known by most of the doctors as the Crystal Palace! It was constructed with a lot of glass.

Having a new specialty physicians building for children will be impressive. A ton of pediatricians under one roof! No other medical center in the state has such a facility. OU is definitely helping establish excellence in our state!



"Demolition clears way for world-class OU Children’s Physicians Building

University of Oklahoma President David L. Boren, OU Children’s Physicians and several of their young patients gathered today to celebrate the start of a new future for children’s healthcare in Oklahoma.
The ceremony, held at the southeast corner of N.E. 13th Street and Phillips Avenue, signaled the demolition of a former research building located on the future site of the new $50 million OU Children’s Physicians Building.

“We’re here not to watch a wrecking ball tear down a building,” Boren said. “Today is not about the demolition of a building, but about building a future for our children.”

Funded by the University Hospitals Trust and other supporters of children’s healthcare, the building will be the first freestanding, pediatric multi-specialty physician building in the state.

The new building will span about 180,000 square feet and provide outpatient offices for more than 100 pediatric specialists, many of whom are the only doctors in their specialties in the state.

“The caliber of leadership really sets the tone,” Boren said.

Dewayne Andrews, dean of the OU College of Medicine, said the hospital will be a wonderful resource for children, who will be taken care of by the most trained professionals.

“These doctors have committed their careers to serve Oklahoma’s children,” Andrews said.

Andrews said the new facility will be the hub of medicine.
“This is Oklahoma’s frontier of medical research,” he said.

Currently, most OU Children’s Physicians offices are located within the expanses of The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center. The new building will provide one centralized location, where pediatric patients can visit with their doctors outside the hospital setting.

The University Hospitals Trust selected Miles Associates to design the new 10-story building, which will include a glass atrium entrance. Flintco is the construction manager of the project.

The project is scheduled to take two years"