Facilities Services at University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences

To help alleviate parking pressures for the Center for Care & Discovery and the medical campus as a whole, the Medical Center is constructing a eight-story garage at 57th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. The $80 million project is scheduled to open in January 2015.The new garage is an approximately ~800,000 GSF , poured in place, post tensioned, concrete structure. The building includes ~1,800 spaces with a second floor bridge connection with patient drop off into CCD, ~60,000 GSF ground floor shell space, ~45,000 GSF Lower Level Loading Dock and Tunnel with connection into CCD, ~1,500 GSF ground floor oxygen tank farm, a structure partially hardened to allow for the future construction of an 8 story Medical Office Building above a portion of the top floor.