Via Hamilton Magazine
When completed, the McMaster Health Campus promises to be a hub for students, teaching, patient care and research, seeing up to 54,000 patient visits every year and allowing some 15,000 Hamiltonians now without a doctor to have a family physician. It will bring 4,000 McMaster students downtown and serve as home to 450 McMaster employees, to say nothing of the jobs spinoff during design and construction phases. When Hamilton’s General Issues Committee assented to the campus plan, Hamilton Mayor Bob Bratina fairly beamed. “This is our finest hour,” the Mayor said. “We will take pride years from now that we’ve made this happen.” McMaster president Patrick Deane described the achievement as a “beachhead in downtown."
75,000 patient visits a year. “The partnership would bring together two of the city’s leading institutions and their missions to provide the very best learning opportunities, community services and partnerships,” said then-president of McMaster, Peter George. The facility was to combine a large primary care and learning centre with complementary research groups and commercial activities.
"a building estimated at $80 million and 152,000 square feet total. The more palatable pitch hooked council, who voted to commit more than $47 million over 30 years to the project, one that is hoped to raise a number of boats on adjacent blocks, attracting like-minded businesses and professionals, and economic uplift as a result"
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