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Medical centre for West End

Louise Russell

14May08

THE West End will be home to a "world class" new medical research centre, Health Minister John Hill says.

A 36-page report tabled in Parliament earlier this month by Professor John Shine and Alan Young recommended building a 20,000sq m "Adelaide Health and Medical Research Institute".

The new institute would house 400 staff, and be in the city square mile close to the proposed Marjorie Jackson Nelson Hospital, to be built on North Tce.

The Shine and Young report says the new institute would attract doctors and medical professionals, help retain existing staff and even pull international research grants.

Mr Hill has committed "in principle" to the development and will look into funding options. "We're wanting to talk to a whole range of other people, it's not something we can do ourselves," Mr Hill told the City Messenger.

The minister said the RAH's existing research work would continue, or expand, at the Marj. It would not be comprised by the institute.

Mr Hill originally sought the Shine and Young report to address SA's drop in Commonwealth medical research grants. While SA's actual funding dollar has increased, our share of the national pool has dropped from 15 per cent to less than 7 per cent, Mr Hill said.

The Shine and Young report said the new Institute would have to be independent to avoid historical rivalries, but partner with universities, teaching hospitals and other research institutions.

Lord Mayor Michael Harbison said the institute was an "incredibly exciting" prospect and would be just the start of medical-associated developments in the West End. "We're expecting to see accommodation for more than 1000 people, research centres, allied medical centres and so on. It'll be a huge boost for that corner of the city," he said.

Ho Really wrote:Another nail in the coffin for the railyards entertainment precinct...

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monotonehell wrote:

Ho Really wrote:Another nail in the coffin for the railyards entertainment precinct...

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Not if you find medical research entertaining! We have to look on the bright side

Not necessarily so, from what I understand this complex will be within the grid, and the Marj wont occupy any of the land on the Torrens 'Lake' banks. There's still scope for development on the remaining land.

Ho Really wrote:

monotonehell wrote:

Ho Really wrote:Another nail in the coffin for the railyards entertainment precinct...

Cheers

Not if you find medical research entertaining! We have to look on the bright side

Not necessarily so, from what I understand this complex will be within the grid, and the Marj wont occupy any of the land on the Torrens 'Lake' banks. There's still scope for development on the remaining land.

If they built this on Frome Road it would be next to the universities and the RAH. Between the Marj and Morphett Street Bridge there will be plenty of room for something else (Bus Interchange, Entertainment Precinct, Museums/Galleries, or whatever, even AUFC's new stadium, if built on its own of course) if they also build over the tracks.

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monotonehell wrote:

Ho Really wrote:If they built this on Frome Road it would be next to the universities and the RAH. Between the Marj and Morphett Street Bridge there will be plenty of room for something else (Bus Interchange, Entertainment Precinct, Museums/Galleries, or whatever, even AUFC's new stadium, if built on its own of course) if they also build over the tracks.

Where on Frome road?
Also you forget that if the Marj is built the Adelaide Uni medical division is moving with it, along with the IMVS.

Ho Really wrote:

monotonehell wrote:

Ho Really wrote:If they built this on Frome Road it would be next to the universities and the RAH. Between the Marj and Morphett Street Bridge there will be plenty of room for something else (Bus Interchange, Entertainment Precinct, Museums/Galleries, or whatever, even AUFC's new stadium, if built on its own of course) if they also build over the tracks.

Where on Frome road?
Also you forget that if the Marj is built the Adelaide Uni medical division is moving with it, along with the IMVS.

I haven't forgotten about the relocation. They should be building it where they are extending the Botanic Gardens (for a start) or on a redeveloped RAH site.

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monotonehell wrote: Why build it there so far away from all the newly relocated similar facilities? (Assuming that the Marj complex goes ahead)

Ho Really wrote:

monotonehell wrote: Why build it there so far away from all the newly relocated similar facilities? (Assuming that the Marj complex goes ahead)

It will be down the road from the current IMVS and still in the RAH precinct. Of course I'm assuming nothing will change and the RAH is redeveloped, which is my preferred option. If they build the Marj then my argument is futile.

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crawf wrote:I highly doubt that, considering the recent new UniSA City West building looks nothing like the existing buildings.

Omicron wrote:

crawf wrote:I highly doubt that, considering the recent new UniSA City West building looks nothing like the existing buildings.

That f'ing Hawke Building! All I wanted to do was get to a tutorial room on the top floor to meet up with a friend, so I walked into the large entrance fronting Aroma, and........found myself with a choice between the toilet or the Allan Scott Auditorium. I had to go back outside, cross into BH, walk up four hundred flights of stairs with godawful students clogging up every second step, walk along the fifth floor balcony into Hawke, then take another set of stairs to the 6th level.