Duke University Health System plans to expand its medical empire.
Duke announced this morning it is building a new Cancer Center and Duke Medicine Paviliion at its main Durham campus. The two facilities will cost more than $700 million and add about 850,000 square feet to the campus.
The seven-story Cancer Center will be next to the current Morris Cancer Clinic and is expected to open in 2012. The eight-story pavilion is expected to be ready in 2013.
Medical expansions continue to fuel the local economy during the recession, with new projects proposed or underway in Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Clayton, Hillsborough and elsewhere.
The latest Duke project will create about 1,500 jobs during construction and 1,000 jobs when finished, university officials estimate.
Duke has recently finished renovations at Duke Raleigh and Durham
Regional hospitals, and opened clinics in Brier Creek, Morrisville,
Knightdale and North Raleigh.
Assistant Business Editor Alan M. Wolf joined the N&O in 1999 covering the business of health care. He became an editor in 2001, and helps oversee the paper's daily business coverage and Sunday Work&Money section. He lives in Clayton with his wife and two children. Reach him at 919-829-4572 or
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The good life
Wed, 08/26/2009 - 17:38 — dlhertzbergQuick with the Cancer, Jobs, and Goth Nightmares. I think I am addicted. You mean all I have to do is press that button and ...
Does Barrack know this?
Wed, 08/26/2009 - 17:31 — alaskan1I wonder if the Kingfish knows this.
Yeah right
Wed, 08/26/2009 - 17:12 — JohnPershingAll this is designed to accomodate Senators Robert Byrd, John McCairn, and Arlen Specter as their last nuero synapses bury themselves into a grossly hyper-metastized brain tumor.
It can't be so
Wed, 08/26/2009 - 14:29 — stevemichaelsThis has to be untrue - how can a business expand without the direct help from the federal stimulus program or millions of free giveaways from the nc general assembly? This is an outrage - how did the nanny state miss this one?