City, Carle reach deal on street closures

URBANA – The city council and Carle Foundation Hospital officials appear to have reached agreement about how to proceed with the hospital's request to vacate portions of three streets near its medical campus.

The council, meeting as the committee of the whole, appeared Monday to support a plan to vacate two blocks of Coler Avenue and one block of Park Street that stand immediately in the way of the planned construction of a $144 million, eight-story addition to the hospital that Carle wants to build just west of its North Tower site. In return, Carle is agreeing that it won't close the streets if the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board doesn't approve the expansion project. If that happens, Carle would return the vacated streets to the city.

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