Fri
Mar 28 2008
01:26 pm
A Great Location for Mercy Health Partner's New Hospital?
By: rocketsquirrel

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:

  1. reduce the problem of the current landlocked state of Baptist
  2. keep the hospital closer to south Knoxville than "somewhere else"
  3. utilize Hall of Fame Drive to remain connected to north Knoxville
  4. use TIFs to get a new coliseum out of the deal

other pros, cons?

  1. also closer to Interstate than both current hospitals
WhitesCreek's picture

Where will the family

Submitted by WhitesCreek on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 2:12pm.

Where will the family planning unit be located?

Anonymously Nine's picture

use TIFs to get a new

Submitted by Anonymously Nine (not verified) on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 2:51pm.

use TIFs to get a new coliseum out of the deal

So many reasons to hate this idea. The big ideas never stop do they? This is the worst time to contemplate another taxpayer giveaway.

Who says the buildings are "decrepit"?

Is your friend a developer?

Why do we need a new Coliseum? Maybe we could use the White Elephant that still bleeds taxpayer money?

Justin's picture

Because the coliseum is a

Submitted by Justin on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 3:29pm.

Because the coliseum is a piece of shit and decrepit. Dont you live in Farragut Mike? I dont think a city TIF will harm your little city state out west.

Anonymously Nine's picture

Money doesn't matter when it

Submitted by Anonymously Nine (not verified) on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 3:50pm.

Money doesn't matter when it is other peoples money. I have been to the Coliseum and don't see it as a "piece of shit". Too bad it offends your architectural sensitivities.

Heading into a recession and starting a huge public works building project because Baptist Hospital couldn't manage their financial affairs doesnt make much sense. They broke it, let them fix it. Why should the taxpayers have to bail out Baptist Hospital?

The taxpayers will have enough on their plates paying for the South Knox Waterfront project. We still haven't paid for the White Elephant.

Other than hockey, the occasional tractor pull, and the circus, what happens at the Coliseum that could not be at another venue? We just had to have the Convention Center. Progressive minds with big ideas told us it would make money. How is that working out?

Which big idea has made money? The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame?

RigsbyWerner's picture

Those TVA towers would make nice hospitals

Submitted by RigsbyWerner (not verified) on Sun, 2008/03/30 - 9:26pm.

and if they ever wanted to seperate their operations again, the Catholics could have one tower and the bible thumpers could have the other. They'd really be downtown, particularly if they adjoined market square mall and the other Kinsey Probasco windfalls of taxpayer monies.

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