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Dirt turned for new UT College of Pharmacy

 

08-Dec-2007: The first spades of dirt were moved in a ceremony Friday to make way for the $42.8 million University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy.

Inman Construction Corp. will soon begin construction on the six-story facility at the corner of Madison and Dunlap, on the footprint of Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp.'s former Downtown hospital. The new facility is slated for completion as early as fall 2009.

UTHSC's pharmacy school is currently spread over six buildings. The new building will bring it all together on 191,000 square feet in lecture halls, classrooms, conference rooms equipped for distance learning, a computer lab and office and student space.

During the ceremony at the site, College of Pharmacy dean Dick Gourley called it a "historic" moment.

"It's like I told a group not too long ago: If you want a great athletic program, you need certain things -- great coaches, great players, a fan base and fantastic practicing facilities," he said. "It's the same in academics. You've got to have a great faculty, a great staff, good students and a great facility for them practice and research in. This new building is the last part of that puzzle."

The ceremony was attended by pharmacy professionals from all over the state, pharmacy students and elected officials. Among them, Congressman Steve Cohen called the site a "Phoenix."

"I have many memories that have happened on this site. My dad was a UT grad who worked at Baptist and I was born here," he told the crowd. "This pharmacy building is a big part of the effort to bring this medical center to greatness. I had regrets when Baptist was torn down but this site, with the Regional Bio-containment Lab and the whole biomedical zone, will be even greater."

UT president John Petersen joked that the pharmacy building is a "promise made and a promise kept," although "no one really held anybody to a strict timetable." He said the College of Pharmacy alone brought $51.6 million to the state in 2005 and he expects it to bring around $90 million annually when the new building is open and filled with students.

Source: Washington Business Journal