Lakeview Hospital officials set open house to share plans for new campus with nearby residents
HealthPartners officials last week shared plans for a proposed $400 million Lakeview Hospital campus at the northeast corner of Minnesota 36 and Manning Avenue with the Stillwater City Council.
Next week, they plan to share them with nearby residents.
HealthPartners is holding an open house from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday at The Lakes at Stillwater to give community members a chance to meet with hospital team members and the architects working on the new campus. Officials plan to share the results of a community engagement survey conducted last spring; more than 1,200 people responded.
“Our teams are excited to take the next step forward and engage directly with those who will use our services,” Lakeview Hospital President Brandi Lunneborg said. “We are so excited to meet directly with community members answering questions and hearing their ideas. These conversations will further inform the design.”
HealthPartners on Nov. 6 submitted a concept plan review request to the Stillwater City Council for the 64-acre hospital campus. The new hospital, which is expected to open in late 2027 or early 2028, will include emergency medicine, advanced critical care and specialized centers for heart, cancer and orthopedic care.
The hospital is proposed to be 104-feet tall; an architect’s rendering of the building shows it to be six stories. That height exceeds current zoning limits — three stories in a public-administration district — so council members were asked to assess if the height is appropriate for the area, “considering potential visual impacts and any available flexibility with a planned-unit development or height-transition strategies,” according to a staff memo included in the council packet.
Council members asked for more detailed drawings showing the scale of the height with the surrounding area, said City Administrator Joe Kohlmann.
Lakeview’s “patients and their families, colleagues and our clinicians deserve a thoughtfully designed destination that supports all that health care is to a community: a welcoming, safe place of health and healing; a beacon of hope and compassion,” Lunneborg said. “We are so lucky to also have a new location that offers natural beauty, visibility and ease of navigation for those seeking health care services. This new hospital campus is a necessary and rare opportunity to cement our commitment to community health while partnering with those we care for to create a hospital campus that everyone can be proud of.”
Communication concerns
Some residents who live near the site of the new hospital, however, have expressed concerns that they didn’t learn about Lakeview’s plans until they checked the Stillwater City Council agenda for the Nov. 6 meeting.
“While I realize and understand plans for such a large-scale building project has its delays, the hospital’s lack of communication and engagement with our neighborhood has been, to say the least, barely minimal,” said Kelly Seivert. “Lakeview is moving into our neighborhood. Our wonderful neighborhood was established in 1999, and we deserve and expect to be provided with more details, communication and solid answers as to how this will affect and impact our homes, daily lives and neighborhood.”
Homeowner Rebecca Lentz, who has raised concerns about an increase in traffic on 62nd Street once the land is developed, said she also found out about Lakeview’s plans “only by looking at the city council agenda.”
Lakeview officials promised last March to engage nearby homeowners by mid-summer, Lentz said.
“This is bad planning, absent civic commitment, failure to follow through on promises and an embarrassing lack of public engagement,” Lentz said.
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In addition to the open house on Tuesday, HealthPartners is planning to host winter focus groups and hold another open house in the spring.
“We’re still early in the design phase of the project and continue to seek feedback from the community,” a HealthPartners spokesman said.
“The background material for the recent city council meeting is one of several upcoming opportunities for the community to learn more and share feedback. We’re committed to partnering with neighbors and community members to create a facility that will serve our community for generations to come.”
Light refreshments will be served at the open house; families are welcome.
Lakeview Hospital officials set open house to share plans for new campus with nearby residents
HealthPartners officials last week shared plans for a proposed $400 million Lakeview Hospital campus at the northeast corner of Minnesota 36 and Manning Avenue with the Stillwater City Council.
Next week, they plan to share them with nearby residents.
HealthPartners is holding an open house from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday at The Lakes at Stillwater to give community members a chance to meet with hospital team members and the architects working on the new campus. Officials plan to share the results of a community engagement survey conducted last spring; more than 1,200 people responded.
“Our teams are excited to take the next step forward and engage directly with those who will use our services,” Lakeview Hospital President Brandi Lunneborg said. “We are so excited to meet directly with community members answering questions and hearing their ideas. These conversations will further inform the design.”
HealthPartners on Nov. 6 submitted a concept plan review request to the Stillwater City Council for the 64-acre hospital campus. The new hospital, which is expected to open in late 2027 or early 2028, will include emergency medicine, advanced critical care and specialized centers for heart, cancer and orthopedic care.
The hospital is proposed to be 104-feet tall; an architect’s rendering of the building shows it to be six stories. That height exceeds current zoning limits — three stories in a public-administration district — so council members were asked to assess if the height is appropriate for the area, “considering potential visual impacts and any available flexibility with a planned-unit development or height-transition strategies,” according to a staff memo included in the council packet.
Council members asked for more detailed drawings showing the scale of the height with the surrounding area, said City Administrator Joe Kohlmann.
Lakeview’s “patients and their families, colleagues and our clinicians deserve a thoughtfully designed destination that supports all that health care is to a community: a welcoming, safe place of health and healing; a beacon of hope and compassion,” Lunneborg said. “We are so lucky to also have a new location that offers natural beauty, visibility and ease of navigation for those seeking health care services. This new hospital campus is a necessary and rare opportunity to cement our commitment to community health while partnering with those we care for to create a hospital campus that everyone can be proud of.”
Communication concerns
Some residents who live near the site of the new hospital, however, have expressed concerns that they didn’t learn about Lakeview’s plans until they checked the Stillwater City Council agenda for the Nov. 6 meeting.
“While I realize and understand plans for such a large-scale building project has its delays, the hospital’s lack of communication and engagement with our neighborhood has been, to say the least, barely minimal,” said Kelly Seivert. “Lakeview is moving into our neighborhood. Our wonderful neighborhood was established in 1999, and we deserve and expect to be provided with more details, communication and solid answers as to how this will affect and impact our homes, daily lives and neighborhood.”
Homeowner Rebecca Lentz, who has raised concerns about an increase in traffic on 62nd Street once the land is developed, said she also found out about Lakeview’s plans “only by looking at the city council agenda.”
Lakeview officials promised last March to engage nearby homeowners by mid-summer, Lentz said.
“This is bad planning, absent civic commitment, failure to follow through on promises and an embarrassing lack of public engagement,” Lentz said.
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In addition to the open house on Tuesday, HealthPartners is planning to host winter focus groups and hold another open house in the spring.
“We’re still early in the design phase of the project and continue to seek feedback from the community,” a HealthPartners spokesman said.
“The background material for the recent city council meeting is one of several upcoming opportunities for the community to learn more and share feedback. We’re committed to partnering with neighbors and community members to create a facility that will serve our community for generations to come.”
Light refreshments will be served at the open house; families are welcome.
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