SUNY Upstate Medical University Plans $300 Million in Capital Projects

SUNY Upstate Medical University is planning $300 million in improvements to its Syracuse, N.Y. campus. Funded by $320 million from the state of New York, the university will initiate a $72 million expansion of the Institute for Human Performance, creating needed research laboratories and constructing an 85,000-sf addition. A $150 million project will build new heart and cancer centers and modernize inpatient rooms at University Hospital. Other projects include a $39 million renovation of the existing Weiskotten and Silverman halls, the construction of a $36 million academic building, and the creation of a $10 million umbilical cord blood bank. The Binghamton campus will benefit from a $12.45 million renovation of the historic New York State Inebriate Asylum facility, an 85,000-sf facility known as The Castle located at the Greater Binghamton Health Center.