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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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We invite our Hospital neighbors and other interested community members to our sixth neighborhood meeting, an informal discussion with members of our project management team to discuss the current and upcoming projects relative to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s (SBCH) Facility Master Plan (FMP). We’ll outline several projects, including: Construction of the new 8,200 sq ft Child Care Center. This is now complete, and opened for business on July 25. The children and staff are both excited to be in a beautiful new Child Care Center. The Knapp Parking Structure at 2402 Bath Street, a 500+-space employee parking garage, with access from the public alley off Bath Street. This five-level structure will be utilized by employees of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and the Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara. We will be completing the landscaping and site lighting over the next several weeks and staff begin use of the structure on Monday, August 6. The storm drain culvert. This project, which consists of an 8ft x 8ft underground box structure that transports storm water from the new hospital site to Mission Creek at Padre Street, is essentially complete. There are a few attendant utilities such as some sewer main and sewer laterals still to be completed on Pueblo Street at the 300 and 400 block, as well as minor clean-up and street repairs. Underground utilities (SCE, Verizon, Cox & Gas). These had to be rerouted around the new west block of the hospital to accommodate the future use of Castillo Street for the new hospital. This project is now complete with the only real visible evidence being the under-grounding of several utility poles, newutility pullboxes in the sidewalks, and six new city streetlights on Junipero and Oak Park Lane. Construction of a medical gas yard (Phase 3 of the FMP) at the corner of Junipero Street and Oak Park Lane to service the new Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. The new oxygen tanks have been set, and the majority of the concrete work is complete. Demolition of the old parking structure, former child care centers, and the neurosurgical medical office building will begin during the week of August 6. There will also be a number of exiting modifications to the existing building along the abandoned portion of Castillo Street. Construction of seven new neighborhood street intersection improvements. This is complete with the exception of a small bulb-out on the west side of Calle Real at Junipero Street. Ongoing construction of the new Energy Center at the corner of Bath and Junipero Streets to service the existing and future SBCH. This should be completed late this year. The interior involves finishing up the MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) work and installing drywall. The exterior plaster is almost complete and roofing will commence in August. The new generators will arrive shortly, and we will begin closing up the building and starting site work. Phase 4 of the FMP, which encompasses the construction of the new Diagnostic and Treatment Wing, as well as the first two new Patient Pavilions. This is projected to begin in late October with the excavation phase, followed by construction of footings and later structural steel. We anticipate that Phase 4 will take slightly more than three years to complete. When finished, this 370,000 square foot project will be the largest portion of the new state-of-the-art hospital for the Santa Barbara community. We acknowledge the level of neighborhood traffic disruption and noise associated with the extensive projects of this past year. We very much appreciate your continued patience and understanding while we move to the next phase of constructing the new hospital in which we can all take great pride. If you have questions or concerns at any time, you can call our project management hotline at (805) 569-7383. We are also posting construction updates on our website (www.cottagehealthsystem.org) and encourage you to check in from time to time. Hope to see you on August 22. Sincerely, Ron Biscaro PS: And we’ll be sharing details about the soon-to-open neighborhood deli that’s at the corner of the Pueblo Parking Structure....perhaps some menus, too!
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