What began as a parking terrace to accommodate increasing patient volumes at the growing University of Utah Medical campus evolved into “an infrastructure project that happens to have a parking terrace attached to it,” according to lead designer Sean Thompson of the Park City-based Elliot Design Group. The eight-level, 1,400 stall, parking garage tucked into the hillside north of the University Medical Center and west of the new 220,000-sq ft. Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care at the Huntsman Cancer Institute might be the simplest component of the wider $90-million project aimed at increasing mobility at the campus that draws thousands of patients each day from the state and surrounding Intermountain region.
The U of U medical campus, perched on the hillside above the main University of Utah campus includes the multi-specialty University of Utah Hospital and School of Medicine, the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and Hospital, Primary Children’s Medical Center, the Moran Eye Center, and the newly completed Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital.