Flint Health Group Starts Clarkston Campus

By Patricia Anstett, Detroit Free Press

Jul. 25–McLaren Health Care officials will break ground today for a $600-million medical campus in Clarkston, on a site the Flint-based health system hopes will house a hospital someday.

Three phases of construction will be done over five to seven years on the site off I-75 at Sashabaw Road.

The first phase calls for a medical office building for the Clarkston Medical Group, a local physicians’ network, an outpatient surgery center and a cancer center with healing gardens, bike paths and walking trails. A second phase would build a heart center, three life sciences facilities, more medical office buildings and possibly a 200-bed hospital. A third phase would add space for 100 hospital beds.

McLaren officials hope to convince state regulators to let them build a hospital. Earlier this year, Michigan’s Certificate of Need Commission declined to change the state law that bans urban hospital systems from moving beds at underused hospitals to new ones more than 2 miles away.

The Clarkston project is expected to create 3,000 to 4,000 jobs. Working on the project are: RTKL Associates Inc. of Chicago, the site plan architect; Hobbs & Black Associates of Ann Arbor, the architects for the medical office building; George W. Auch Co. of Pontiac, construction; Professional Engineering Associates of Troy, the project engineer, and DCC Construction of Davison, site contractor.

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