Had lunch with a friend who feels pretty strongly that a good location for a new, consolidated downtown hospital would be the site of the current safety building and coliseum. Both buildings being decrepit (and city owned), doing this would:
- reduce the problem of the current landlocked state of Baptist
- keep the hospital closer to south Knoxville than "somewhere else"
- utilize Hall of Fame Drive to remain connected to north Knoxville
- use TIFs to get a new coliseum out of the deal
other pros, cons?
- also closer to Interstate than both current hospitals