Medical city project being readied for construction

MELBOURNE: City planners are reviewing a newly unveiled master plan for a proposed “medical city” with a senior housing component.

The project would include space for residential use, offices for physicians and clinicians and emergency and surgical facilities. All told, the plans have room for 955 apartments, and will offer assisted living, memory care, stroke and hospice services.

The project’s master plan team includes Dan Kirby, principal of JACOBS Buildings; Infrastructure and Advanced Facilities; GAI Consultants, Traffic Planning and Design, Stack Rock Group, Wayne Young of Young Architects, and Silverman Trykowski Associates.