GRU Cancer Center expansion to break ground soon (2015, floors)

[Airforceguy]

GRU Cancer Center Expansion by brandon walker, on Flickr

Groundbreaking on the expansion of the current research building, which will include a three-story space above Laney-Walker Boulevard, is probably a month away, Director Samir N. Khleif said. It will actually have two primary pieces, he said. One will be a five-story extension out of the current building along Laney-Walker toward the research space at GRU and taking up almost half of the greenspace currently in front of the building, he said. That expansion will include a small conference center on the first floor, administrative space and then additional lab space above that, Khleif said.
That will enable GRU “to be able to hire more people, to recruit more people, to have the critical mass needed for the (National Cancer Institute Cancer Center) designation,” he said.
The other large piece is that three-story connection over Laney-Walker, beginning with the third floor and connecting the top three floors of the research building with the cancer clinic. That will be “an integrative space, where it is going to be the researchers and clinicians in one space to enhance the translational element of our research,” Khleif said.

GRU Cancer Center expansion on track; will expand its cancer research abilities | The Augusta Chronicle

[Worren]

This is nice to see. The hard working folks at the Cancer Center really need a larger facility. A close family member is under treatment there and the care couldn't be better.
Be nice to have a bit more parking also.

[GRU_Minion]

Originally Posted by Worren

This is nice to see. The hard working folks at the Cancer Center really need a larger facility. A close family member is under treatment there and the care couldn't be better.
Be nice to have a bit more parking also.

That Cancer Center parking deck is the biggest waste of space I've seen in a while. Don't know who designed the thing, but there's so much wasted space in it that could've been used more efficiently to get double the cars in it that it currently allows I would bet.