In a 5-0 ruling yesterday, the board allowed the hospital to continue with the expansion project, but blocked the demolition of at least 11 of 23 hospital-owned homes along the outskirts of the proposed larger campus.
The decision has created a large number of new land-use issues to be settled and may delay the project by a substantial amount of time. Suburban Hospital is a subsidiary of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Read the Washington Business Journal report on the change in Suburban Hospital’s expansion plans.
Read more about hospital expansion plans:
–10 Hospitals Currently Undergoing Expansion and Renovation
–Indiana Hospital Plans $8.7M Expansion
–Vanderbilt University Plans $200M Medical Campus in Nashville Suburbs
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