Mayo Clinic is planning a $648 million expansion that will nearly double the size of its Phoenix campus within the next five years.
Announced Wednesday, officials said the project will add 1.4 million square feet of building space to the expanded 1.7 million square feet of space in north Phoenix. They will increase the overall number of inpatient beds there from 280 to 374 by 2023. The project is estimated to create 2,000 new jobs, including adding nearly 200 physicians by 2029.
Much of that growth, they say, is driven both by retirees seeking to relocate to warm and dry weather, as well as young families with children seeking affordable housing costs in an improving economy.
The expansion will include a new six-story patient tower that will include clinical and rehab space and an outpatient surgical center. The plans also include a three-floor addition to the existing four-story Mayo Clinic building and a new three-story building to house an expanded emergency department, laboratory, radiology and pharmacy. It will also include a 1,600-space multilevel staff parking garage.
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New patient areas are projected to open as early as June 2020.
In recent years, Mayo has invested in the Arizona campus, including expanding the consolidated Cancer Center in the new Mayo Clinic Building, the Proton Beam Facility and the Image Guided Operating Rooms.
The project will increase inpatient and outpatient surgical capacity by five operating rooms and will expand pre-op and post-anesthesia care units, surgical pathology and central sterile spaces.