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Kaiser Purchasing the land at Downey Facility
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The City of Downey advertises:
Kaiser
Downey Medical Center (KDMC)The
southern portion of Downey Landing that will be made up of 30
acres planned as a major Kaiser Permanente hospital and medical office
complex of approximately 1 million square feet.
http://www.downeyca.org/business_downeylanding_proj.php
http://www.downeyca.org/business_downeylanding_proj.php
Here is some more Kaiser PR work about their Downey Landings Hospital/Medical facilty/shopping center.
From: http://downeyeagle.com/2002/mar01/features.htm and mirrored here for historical purposes
2000
City OKs sale of 30 acres of NASA site to Kaiser
$300 million medical center plan
DOWNEY-The Downey City Council has approved a purchase and sales agreement between the City and Kaiser for the development of a new $300 million Kaiser medical center on 30-acres of the former Boeing/NASA industrial plant.
The action was at Tuesday's regular City Council meeting.
The new medical facility would include a 350-bed hospital, and employ 3,000 well-paid personnel, including doctors, nurses and technicians.
A staff report delivered by Darrell George, director of community and economic development for the City, noted that City staff has been engaged in negotiations with Kaiser Permanente for the development of a new medical center for some time. The talks have taken many turns due to changes in location, the complex nature of Kaiser's facility requirements and environmental approvals required for the proposed site.
George summarized major terms and conditions which have been agreed to including:
* The site area will include approximately net 30-acres.
* Kaiser will construct approximately 1,000,000 square feet of medical center uses, including 650,000 square feet of hospital and 350,000 square feet of medical offices. At an appropriate time in the future, Kaiser intends to apply for entitlements to expand the medical center by up to 400,000 square feet.
* City staff and Kaiser have negotiated a base land value of $10 per square foot. The sale of 30 acres to Kaiser would thus generate approximately $13 million in revenue to the NASA site reuse project.
* Kaiser will be responsible for any payment required by the General Services Administration (GSA) over the sale of Parcel 4, which has been preliminarily estimated by the GSA at $1.8 million. Kaiser will also be responsible for an appropriate share of public road construction costs. Should the City elect to construct a new multi-purpose conference center within the learning center complex and within reasonable proximity to the Kaiser medical center, Kaiser would make a $500,000 contribution toward its construction and pay a proportionate share of its operating expenses.
* Major contingencies include the successful acquisition of Parcels 1 and 2 of the former NASA plant from the federal government, successful approval of the required entitlements (specific plan and EIR), Water Board approval of the hospital use, and Kaiser approval of the environmental condition of the property.
Assuming these contingencies can be worked through, staff anticipates that a development agreement can be brought before the Council by July 2002. The execution of that development agreement would allow construction of the first medical office building to begin by the first quarter of 2003.
In addition to the positive impact to the City by the payment by Kaiser of approximately $13 million for the land, Kaiser Permanente also plans to invest more than $300 million in the development of a state-of-the-art medical center, which will create approximately 3,000 high quality jobs.
The new medical center will include 82 departments; 351 licensed beds including; 34 critical care beds; 18 LDRs; 49 NICU/ICN beds; 48 post partum beds; 20 pediatric beds; 182 medical/surgical beds; 13 operating rooms; an 88 bay Emergency Department; plus full ancillary, general, member and administrative services and outpatient subspecialty clinics.
The project is slated for completion by November 2007.
Councilman Keith McCarthy, noting the facility will be in his 1st District, asked Kaiser's representative how the Downey site was chosen.
Greg Adams of Kaiser, responded that 30-acres was needed, and that the proximity to patient membership also worked in Downey's favor. And he also applauded the cooperation of Darrell George and City Manager Gerald Caton who he said worked tirelessly to make the agreement work.
Councilman Kirk Cartozian said, "My compliments to Darrell and Jerry (Caton) for their efforts. This will be great for our community."
Councilman Bob Winningham called it "exciting."
McCarthy added he looked forward to working with Kaiser.
Mayor Meredith Perkins said the $300 million investment made this the biggest project in the city.
Councilman Richard Trejo welcomed Kaiser, noting the new medical facility will include an emergency room.
http://www.citywd.com/E/eagle/1999/feb26/features.htmsegment mirrored here for historical purposes
Facing on Imperial
Kaiser has eye for a NASA land parcel
DOWNEY-Key executives with Kaiser Permanente have had preliminary talks with the City of Downey over a proposed development of the "institutional" portion of the Sedway site plan of the excess NASA land at Boeing facing on Imperial Highway.
The Sedway site plan, prepared as part of a four month study by the expert San Francisco advisory group and paid for by the City, was just revealed at a City Council meeting two weeks ago.
The Downey Eagle has learned that while Kaiser considers these talks very preliminary in nature, the company's plan would occupy the major portion of the "institutional" area outlined in the Sedway site plan.
This would be a great step ahead in the City hopes to use the property to develop good-paying jobs to replace those lost by the pending closure of Boeing this summer.
The Eagle learned that Kaiser discussed its general proposal for the property located at the south end of the Boeing site with the two members of the Downey City Council last week. The subcommittee members (Councilwoman Joyce Lawrence and Councilman Keith McCarthy) reported to the rest of the Council later in closed session.
Downey City Manger Gerald Caton, while confirming a discussion took place, had no further comment at this time, other than saying Kaiser Permanente would be an admirable tennant for the "institutional" portion of the development.
McCarthy also confirmed the meeting with Kaiser.
The "institutional" portion of the Sedway site plan is not in the 68 acres currently being acquired by the City from NASA next month, but rather in the area to be vacated by Boeing later this summer, land of which terms of acquisition by the City are yet to be negotiated with federal officials.
The City has "first offer" privileges to the property, and its case would no doubt be strengthened by a potential tenant of Kiaser Permanente's stature.
Kaiser also operates its present Satellite Center at Imperial Highway and Bellflower Boulevard just to the east of the proposed development, which makes the expansion plan logical.