Shoulders: This is the greatest chance for Downtown to be successful Bloomington <\/p>\n
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. An hour into maybe one of the most keenly-watched public meetings in Evansville's history, Indiana University's board of trustees made it official: They want the university to build its new Evansville medical school in Downtown Evansville. <\/p>\n
The meeting was held live at IU's Bloomington campus, and broadcast live both at an Evansville gathering and online. It also generated interest from Twitter and Facebook users. <\/p>\n
At the meeting, IU President Michael McRobbie said the university's medical school and students, along with other involved parties, expressed a strong preference for Downtown over three other proposed sites. <\/p>\n
The Downtown site covers almost six square blocks. The site's boundaries include Locust, Cherry, Southeast Fourth and Southeast Sixth streets. <\/p>\n
The chosen site will add to a \"quickly developing downtown\" Evansville, McRobbie noted, and the Downtown site will be walkable for students and offer easy access to area hospitals where students will do training. <\/p>\n
Estimated cost of the Downtown project is $69.5 million. As part of its proposal, the city is offering TIF district incentives of $35 million, said IU Vice President of Capital Planning and Facilities Tom Morrison. <\/p>\n
In some ways the afternoon vote was a formality: Trustees heard details of all four proposals in a morning committee meeting, and during that meeting McRobbie recommended that the board select the Downtown Evansville site. <\/p>\n
The development team on this project is Skanska\/U.S. HealthRealty, and four members of this team traveled to Bloomington for the meeting. <\/p>\n
\"We're just happy to be a part of this project,\" said Downtown project team member A.C. Braun, business developer at Industrial Contractors Skanska. <\/p>\n
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