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Yahoo
23-05-2025
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Former Rochester City Council president tackles new role with DMC
May 22—ROCHESTER — A familiar face was introduced Thursday to the state Destination Medical Center Corp. board, but in a new role. "Some of you know her, because you sat alongside her when she was (Rochester) City Council president," DMC Economic Development Agency Patrick Seeb said as he introduced Brooke Carlson as the agency's newest team member. Carlson served on the council from 2021 to 2024. She opted not to seek a second term. As council president, she had a seat on the DMCC board for four years. Carlson started her new position as director of public experience for strategic infrastructure this week. Seeb said Carlson is assigned to the DMC effort through an arrangement with Mayo Clinic. The goal is to coordinate efforts related to infrastructure investments as the DMC initiative reaches its halfway point and Mayo Clinic's $5 billion "Bold. Forward. Unbound. In Rochester." expansion project continues. He said her initial focus will be working with neighbors, businesses and service organizations near the Mayo Clinic expansion project to optimize public investments by enable the communities to thrive amid the changes. "We expect to bring back before you a strategy that tells the story of the role DMC might consider playing in supporting unbound and the adjacent neighborhoods to maximize the extraordinary investment," he told the DMCC board. DMCC board member Doug Baker, who serves as Mayo Clinic's representative on the state board, said the work will be critical in the next five to 10 years. "We are in a different stage, obviously," he said. "The first 10 years have been a big success, and 'Forward. Unbound.' is one of the crowning achievements. The thing we have to ensure is we do a great job in enabling 'Forward. Unbound.' to live up to its potential, both for Rochester and Mayo." James Campbell, who is the longest-serving DMCC board member, agreed, but said the key component to any success will be listening to the people affected by the developments. "What you are going to be working on is absolute bedrock," he told Carlson. "It is critical for the next 10 years." Carlson said she's looking forward to the work ahead, which she expects will move from the downtown core to other areas of the city. "If you think about the impact of Bold Forward and downtown, you can think about concentric circles moving outward," she said. "As I step into this role, I will be thinking about those intercircles. They are more pressing; the construction and demolition is already well underway. People are being impacted in their day-to-day lives." She said she wants to coordinate efforts to set community priorities to help address the local impacts and maintain needed connections. Deputy City Administrator Cindy Steinhauser, who has been assigned to help coordinate city efforts with the Mayo Clinic expansion, said she's looking forward.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
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- Yahoo
Lourdes demolition in full swing
Apr. 14—ROCHESTER — The walls of the former Lourdes High School are coming down. While work crews had already been removing some exterior elements of the building, full demolition of the 84-year-old building at 621 W. Center St. began Monday, a little more than a year after the Rochester City Council created a path for the work. Mayo Clinic, which owns the building, obtained a demolition permit in September to make way for a new logistics center as part of its "Bold. Forward. Unbound. In Rochester" expansion. The West Logistics Center, designed to manage and distribute critical supplies through service and utility tunnels to future clinical buildings, is expected to be completed in late 2027, according to Mayo Clinic. The former Lourdes site is the latest demolition connected to the $5 billion expansion. The overall project is expected to be completed by 2030. "Mayo Clinic purchased the property in 2013 for the explicit purpose to re-develop the site for future expansion to meet mission critical activities," Mayo Clinic Facilities Services Division Chairman Tim Siegfried wrote of the former Lourdes site in a Feb. 22, 2024, letter to the city. "The new facility planned for the site will serve as a state-of-the-art circulatory system for the new Bold. Forward. Unbound. clinical buildings — moving supplies and equipment to clinicians and patients in need." The property was purchased for $5.8 million in 2013, after the high school moved to 2800 19th St. NW. Father Jerry Mahon, a member of the Rochester Catholic Schools Board of Trustees, told the city Heritage Preservation Commission in 2024 an estimated $12 million in repairs would have been needed if the building had remained a school. The commission recommended the building be given landmark status, but the Rochester City Council opted on March 19, 2024, to remove the site from the city's list of potential landmarks, which opened the path to demolition. The decision followed years of discussion and debate, with the building originally being placed on the city's list of potential landmarks in 2019. The Heritage Preservation Commission later agreed to remove the newest portion of the building from consideration, but the older sections faced added review before demolition was approved. With a variety of community input and sentiment around the decision to demolish the former school building, Mayo Clinic announced plans to reclaim architectural elements of the building for use in a planned park area alongside the new logistics center, creating a transition between the Mayo Clinic campus and nearby residential neighborhood. Additionally, Katie Arendt, a Mayo Clinic obstetric anesthesiologist serving as a physician leader for the Bold. Forward. Unbound. Project, said the cross on the building's steeple was donated to the Diocese of Winona-Rochester for use at its new pastoral center in northwest Rochester. Limestone lining the exterior walls, slate shingles from the roof and existing plantings have also been recovered for future uses. With the former Lourdes building coming down, construction of the planned logistics center — one of five buildings planned to be built in the expansion — is expected to begin as early as this year.
Yahoo
19-02-2025
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Mayo Clinic continues to work on Kellen Building with $6 million fit-up of ninth floor
Feb. 18—ROCHESTER — Mayo Clinic continues work on its Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Building research center with a $6 million "fit-up" on the ninth floor of the 11-story tower in downtown Rochester. On Feb. 13, Mayo Clinic filed a building permit for the "Entire Fit-Up of the 9th Floor of the Kellen Research Building" at 305 Fourth Ave. SW. The valuation of the project was listed as $6.02 million. Nine of the Kellen building's floors are devoted to medical research with up to six to seven labs operating on each floor. An estimated 50 to 60 scientists were anticipated to work on each floor, when the building opened. Mayo Clinic did not respond to questions this week about the buildout of the Kellen Building, timeline for the work or what kind of research is expected to happen on the ninth floor. The $120 million tower opened its doors in December 2023 with access to the first two floors reserved for a lobby, coffee shop and meeting area as well as the first few floors housing research labs. Mayo Clinic originally announced a much smaller version of the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Building in 2019. By 2021, the plan had almost tripled in size from a four-story building to 11 stories. Mayo Clinic's Dr. Gregory Gores described the Kellen Building housing advanced scientific research that follows a more flexible, "non-ownership" model. "This building will not only be a solution shop developing insights that lead to therapeutic applications. It will foster science with an open atmosphere. ... It gives us a new capability, a new direction of momentum," he said in 2023. "It is a big shift." The Kellen Building is Mayo Clinic's first major Rochester building to open since the Gonda Building in 2001. The 21-floor Gonda also cost $120 million to build. The Kellen Building is also notable because it is not part of the $5 billion "Bold. Forward. Unbound. in Rochester" initiative. Mayo Clinic's major downtown construction is expected to be led by "Bold. Forward. Unbound. in Rochester" projects through 2030.
