From today's News-Gazette:
More than two years after Christie Clinic announced plans to leave downtown Champaign and build a big new campus on the northwest outskirts of the city, the clinic's Chief Executive Alan Gleghorn says moving plans are still up in the air after a hoped-for sale of the downtown property fell through.
Remodeling plans for the downtown facility also remain undecided, as are plans for building more space elsewhere on a smaller scale, he said.
The only determined factor right now is why the clinic wanted to move in the first place: Gleghorn said the landlocked downtown site at 101 W. University Ave. still urgently needs room to grow and add more specialists and parking space as an increasing number of patients – largely coming from outside Champaign County – continue to arrive.
But "Plan A" is history, Gleghorn said.
Discuss.
moving plans are still up in the air after a hoped-for sale of the downtown property fell through.
Atkins decided they didn't want to buy downtown property? That does not sound like a positive...
According to the N-G, Atkins and Christie were millions apart in what the downtown property was worth.
Why would ATKINS want to buy downtown? Too many street people tend to scare off these folks coming to town from small communities,etc.