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In Brief: More Details Emerge About University of Michigan Medical Center

The new center on the Seven Mile property in Northville will offer children's care and additional support to an existing facility in Livonia.

More information has been made public about the deal between Bloomfield-based REIS and the University of Michigan to open a 100,000 square-foot ambulatory care facility in Northville Township, which was Thursday afternoon.

The $39 million center – which will be constructed on the long-debated commercial portion of the Seven Mile property near Haggerty Road – will offer primary and specialty care, musculoskeletal care for bones and muscles, joint care, eye care, radiology services, ultrasounds, and infusion treatments for cancer and non-cancer treatment.

The facility will be unusual in that it will offer services specifically for children, said Shantell Kirkendoll, a spokeswoman for U-M.

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The new facility, which will be complete in 2014, is expected to expand services to Western Wayne County residents and further support the university’s existing Center for Specialty Care in Livonia, said Dr. David Spahlinger, the senior associate dean for clinical affairs at the U-M Medical School.

Jeanne D. Rizzo, executive director of Ambulatory Care Services for the University of Michigan Health Center (UMHS) said, “With this expansion, we will be able to provide additional services, as well as UMHS expertise and quality care, in the Northville area.”

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For the university, the new center means the opportunity to expand its reach beyond the 1.8 million patients it already serves in Southeast Michigan. But for Northville township and REIS, the deal represents progress in the long-term efforts to secure development on the Seven Mile property, which is still home to the long-closed Northville Psychiatric Hospital.

The township has high hopes that the new center will be an anchor that will draw new development and provide an opportunity for business diversification, said Township Supervisor Mark Abbo, who announced the deal during Thursday night’s township board meeting.

“It’s different, and it goes a long way to diversify our business base beyond retail and residential,” he said.

Because the university will be required to submit a site plan for review by the planning commission, it’s not clear when ground will be broken on the site. The review could take weeks or several months, depending on what the university wants to do at the site and how it complies with the township’s existing regulations, said Northville Township Trustee Christopher Roosen.

The old hospital facility will not be demolished as a result of this project, but the township hopes activity near the hospital site will spur interest from other entities that might be will to tear down the building, Abbo said.

REIS was unable to be reached for comment. 

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