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Education<br />
phase project’s purpose is to rework<br />
the building, which will renovate<br />
about 67,000 square feet of the<br />
existing space and adding close to<br />
14,500 square feet onto the school.<br />
Additions to the campus include<br />
new and expanded space for Health<br />
Sciences, Business Information<br />
Technology, General Studies and<br />
Trades & Engineering areas of study.<br />
University partnered in order to<br />
give students more options to<br />
pursue a bachelor’s degree.<br />
UW-Marinette’s vision is to<br />
nurture the strengths of both<br />
its small campus, as well as its<br />
large outlook. The university<br />
is for people of all ages and<br />
backgrounds who want to<br />
The money for the new<br />
facility comes from the 2015<br />
referendum in NWTC’s district,<br />
encompassing Door, Brown,<br />
Marinette, Florence, Kewaunee and<br />
Oconto counties, which netted<br />
the colleges $66.5 million for<br />
renovations to the Marinette,<br />
Green Bay and Sturgeon<br />
Bay campuses.<br />
enrich their personal and<br />
community lives through<br />
education – taking their first<br />
steps beyond high school, or<br />
exploring later career paths,<br />
UW-Colleges will always strive<br />
to bring close connections<br />
among students, faculty and<br />
community members.<br />
MARINETTE - Bay Area Medical Center is in<br />
the midst of building a brand-new hospital<br />
facility on 90 acres of land it purchased off<br />
University Drive in Marinette.<br />
Groundbreaking was held in May 2016<br />
for the new $135 million project, which<br />
BAMC has partnered with Aurora Health<br />
Care to construct.<br />
The site will become home to a new,<br />
three-story hospital with an expanded<br />
Emergency Department, a Regional<br />
Cancer Care Center, a new Women’s<br />
Health Center, private patient rooms,<br />
cardiology services and physician’s<br />
offices. At the same time the new hospital<br />
is being built, the Aurora Bay Area Health<br />
Center on Old Peshtigo Road is being<br />
remodeled to accommodate offices<br />
for primary care physicians, X-ray and<br />
laboratory services.<br />
At the groundbreaking ceremony<br />
in 2016, Tony Furton, chairman of the<br />
BAMC board of directors, said the<br />
board had spent “nearly a decade”<br />
working toward this day.<br />
Health Care<br />
Bay Area Medical Center<br />
“Good things come to those who wait,” he said,<br />
providing a historical look back on the creation of the<br />
original Marinette General Hospital in the 1930s and<br />
the major renovations that followed in the 1970s.<br />
Furton said plans for major changes<br />
discussed in 2007 were derailed with the<br />
recession and revisited in 2011.<br />
Furton said that bonding has helped pay for<br />
some of the project, but the majority of the funding<br />
has come from BAMC and Aurora. There is no cost<br />
to taxpayers for the construction.<br />
“As everybody knows, the health care landscape<br />
is changing rapidly. Our board is very proud of the<br />
way we have anticipated those changes,”<br />
Furton said. “We’re confident<br />
in the<br />
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