The new St. Mary’s Medical Center impressively overlooks Duluth’s downtown and soon will replace the 100-year-old structure just up the hill.
Patients will be moved from the legacy hospital to the new St. Mary’s throughout the day July 30. Planning for this move started not long after the project’s groundbreaking in September 2019.
Essentia Health’s $900 million Vision Northland project covered construction of 942,000 square feet including a replacement for St. Mary’s Medical Center, new clinic space and renovation of existing buildings in the downtown Duluth campus.
Jeff Dzurik from McGough, executive vice president of project management for McGough Construction, credits cost controls in part to early lock down of contracts and material prices before the COVID pandemic rattled the supply chain and skyrocketed costs.
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