St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center

Master Plan Implementation Phase One

• Improvements support the new parking garage and medical office building in a congested urban setting with severe topographic limitations.
• Entry courtyard, retaining walls, streetscape improvements, plantings, and storm water management plan for the site plan approval from the City of Syracuse.
• Site improvements to support the new hospital lobby and pedestrian sky bridge linking the Medical Office Center to the hospital building.
• Prepared all documents necessary to obtain site plan approval including encroachment maps, storm water management study and agency approvals.
• The project included the development of temporary wayfinding signage due to a street closure, reconfiguration of the street alignment to create a new lobby drop-off and on-street parking plan.
• An existing deteriorated and inefficient surface parking lot was renovated to accommodate employees and create a separate visitor lot, new emergency drop-off, ambulance dock and simplify overall vehicular and pedestrian circulation.
• City storm water regulation required storm separation from the existing neighborhood combined sewer system and a significant subsurface storm water storage facility located under the parking lot.
• Site improvements included the use of brick pavers, site furniture, plantings, memorial gardens, sculpture locations and accent lighting.

Phase Two 

• LEED Silver documentation.

• Site work for new buildings, ambulance dock, parking, retaining walls, service docks and phasing coordination with Hospital's selected Construction Manager.
• Design Development drawings for site plan approval and construction documents for implementation.
• Contract Documents included innovative grading and drainage solutions on steep, heavily developed urban site.
• Development of a healing garden park for patients, visitors and staff.
• Provide new sidewalks, tree plantings and streetscape edge around the hospital campus to improve the neighborhood unification.
• Storm water management including rain garden facility and underground storm water detention, permeable pavement and native plantings.
• Prepared graphic presentation material for public relations.