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December 16, 2022

CT Children’s massive Hartford campus expansion gains approval

Another view of CT Children's new planned patient tower.

The Hartford Planning & Zoning Commission on Tuesday gave its final approval to a $280 million expansion plan that will reshape Connecticut Children’s Washington Street campus in Hartford.

The expansion will be anchored by a new 195,000-square-foot, eight-story patient tower that will include a new fetal care center, 50 NICU beds and expanded capacity for cellular gene therapy, labor and delivery and other services. 

Currently, Connecticut Children’s Hartford facility measures about 321,000 square feet with 187 beds. The new tower will be anchored to the existing building.

A groundbreaking will take place in the spring of 2023, officials said, and the new tower is expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

Connecticut Children’s President and CEO Jim Shmerling has said the expansion will allow the care provider to grow existing services and launch new ones, including an effort to become a national center for fetal care.

It is being driven by increased demand for surgical and other children’s care and a lack of available space within the hospital’s main campus building, Connecticut Children’s officials said.

Connecticut Children’s, which is devoted solely to the care of children, said it plans to pay for the expansion by utilizing a number of different funding opportunities including philanthropy and structured loans.

Connecticut Children’s had originally submitted a master plan that included construction of a new parking garage and pedestrian bridge. But that was taken off the table, at least for now, after the Planning and Zoning Commission raised some concerns. 

Connecticut Children’s spokesperson Monica Buchanan said plans for the garage and bridge will be resubmitted at a later date under a separate timeline. The bridge/walkway would be owned and operated by a third party.
 

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