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No studies released to taxpayers who would foot the huge downtown hospital and the equally huge price tags. MVHS would be walking away from 64-acres, on a nearby hilltop, look to re-purpose two our three campuses, as they push to displace 40+ downtown businesses and property owners. Why?

Why is the movement away from Utica's current Oneida County Medical District?

Perhaps becuase medical, healthcare, and hospital real estate is BIG business, and seems a big part of Utica's Fiasco General. No clear plan, just a huge land grab, a land swap shrouded in "Transformative Healthcare" and "Once In A Lifetime Downtown Economic Development".

A big part of the Utica Healthcare Real Estate Grab Is: Hammes Company. The winners would be the new owners, and the losers the Small Businesses Getting Stepped On

August 21, 2018 - Current Downtown Utica business and property owners to be displaced, only so future area real estate owners can be enriched? We are reading, Hospital district’s portfolio value has increased by almost $4 million. Who would ultimately own the downtown hospital and surrounding acres? So many real estate questions, and we're watching the MVHS and Hammes Company relationship.

March 19, 2018 -MVHS pulled together a group of Business Owners And Developers to show support for their concept, however we look into these Yes Companies and see significant conflicits of interest. Not a single company being displaced was present or spoke.

October 4, 2017 - Read, Four criteria for selecting health care sites, which goes on with the caption: Setting priorities will help to streamline the facility site selection process.

August 15, 2017, (WSJ) CBRE Buys Medical Buildings in a Bid for Safety - One of the world’s largest real-estate asset managers has purchased a 95% stake in a portfolio of 25 medical office buildings, in a sign that health-care property is becoming more popular with institutional investors.

A division of CBRE Global Investors bought the portfolio, which includes 1.4 million square feet of space in 10 states, from a venture of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors and MB Real Estate Healthcare, according to the companies. The venture will keep a 5% stake and continue to manage the buildings.

The price wasn’t disclosed, but experts estimate a portfolio like this, which has a high concentration of property in the Atlanta and Chicago areas and includes one development site, would trade in the range of $510 million to $590 million.

May 1, 2017 - Consider this research paper titled, Risk Criteria in Hospital Site Selection: A Systematic Review, where one may read...

"Undoubtedly, being safe and remaining functional in emergencies and disasters should be one of the main objectives in hospital site selection (HSS)..."

May 6, 2016 - A Sinking Feeling? Research offers an empirical study of the relationship between real estate prices and distance from the nearest hospital. It shows that hospitals are what the author calls "semi-obnoxious" amenities: you want to be near one, but not too near, because of hospital noise and traffic. As shown in #DowntownUtica Map, a hospital would impact prices within the blue area. Actually the circle should be larger, since the hospital could occupy a sizeable area, and the critical distance should be measured from the edge of the facility. Plus, nobody knows the size or shape they've imagined- let's hope that the Mohawk Valley Region never finds out!

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April 4, 2016 - Today on the radio, Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi said that downtown Utica has more land avaialble for a new Mohawk Valley Health System hospital. However, if you compare the two locations by placing land available on-and-around the St. Luke's campus onto a view of downtown (as shown below), the St. Luke's parcel covers a huge portion of downtown. The St. Luke's site has more land and the hospital already owns most of it!

Trying to build a new medical district, in an already compact downtown, would start out constrained - and only get worse! Also all connectivity between Utica's newly emerging neighborhoods around downtown would become separated by a new "super block", which a new downtown utica hospital would create.

Downtown Utica must preserve it's historic buildings, streets, and alleys. New developers and business owners have been acquiring and creating wonderful spaces in older buildings

Varick Bar & Grill, The Stief
JetNet, Hurd Building
Tramontane Cafe
Utica Coffee Roasters
Nail Creek Pub
Tailor and the Cook
Jonny's Pizza
Buildings on the Busy Corner
Brodock Press Building
Nicky Doodles
Pizza Classic
A&P Master Images
Utica Bread
Landmarc Building
Lukin's Brick Oven Pizza
Bella Regina & Utica Classic Guitars
Sweet Escape Chocolate Lounge
Bite Bakery & Café
Mohawk Valley Winery

Columbia and LaFayette Streets will become prime real estate in the days to come (video forthcoming), but only if we can hold-off the hospital's bulldozers. A fifth medical district would not create higher value downtown lofts, for-profit businesses, and places that attract visitors- but it would reduce Utica's tax base, which is something we cannot afford!

October 20, 2015 - Does the Oneida County Legislature plan to takeover Utica's healthcare real estate? Here we read that the Marion County Hospital District is a governmental agency created by the Florida Legislature.

Is a troubled hospital retirement plan the Smoking Gun that created the Utica hospital real estate grab?

Also, why is the movement away from Utica's current Oneida County Medical District?

#NoHospitalDowntown isn't anti-new hospital, we simply do not want a hospital in Downtown Utica. Here's Why We Oppose The Downtown Utica Hospital Concept and Many Agree!

Our sister effort and group is BetterUticaDowntown, this is Downtown's patrh forward!

No Studies, No Reports, thus we remain #NoHospitalDowntown

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