NORTH PORT – Sarasota Memorial Health Care System is negotiating with a planning team to build two new medical campuses in North Port – including the city’s first acute-care hospital, which should be built off of Sumter Boulevard at the Interstate 75 interchange.
SMH will start negotiations this month with Flad Architects and Barr & Barr General Contractors to finalize a contract for master planning services.
The hospital posted a legal ad for the services last fall.
Flad and Barr & Barr have experience with healthcare facilities in Sarasota and elsewhere.
Flad designed SMH-Venice Hospital – located 13 miles north of the proposed Sumter Boulevard campus – as well as Phases 1 and 2 of the Brian D; Jellison Cancer Institute, the radiation oncology center on University Parkway and the oncology tower at the SMH-Sarasota campus.
Barr & Barr is building the new Kolschowsky Research & Education Institute on the former Doctors Gardens office building site, which will be part of the Sarasota campus.