July 9, 2003

VCU razes Randolph-Minor Hall on Health Sciences Campus

Demolition to make room for VCU's Massey Cancer Center expansion

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By Michael Ford
University News Services

WHAT:        Randolph-Minor Hall, 307-315 College St., will be demolished to make
way for a new $29.7 million state-of-the-art research addition for Virginia Commonwealth University's Massey Cancer Center.

After demolition is completed in three weeks, the site will be cleared,  excavated and readied for the new 60,000 square-foot five-story addition to the cancer center featuring three floors for research laboratories and staff offices, a two-level parking deck and healing garden for cancer patients and staff.

Massey Cancer Center is one of only two National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in Virginia and one of only 61 NCI-designated centers in the U.S. The new research addition is part of a larger strategy to position MCC as Virginia's first comprehensive cancer center, the highest designation awarded by the National Cancer Institute.

The new addition will allow MCC to expand the type of research it conducts and attract and retain top cancer researchers. The new labs will be configured to encourage collaboration across scientific disciplines and promote development of ideas for new and better cancer treatments, prevention and ultimately cures.  

WHERE:            VCU's Massey Cancer Center, 401 College St. 

WHO:                      •   Gordon D. Ginder, M.D., director, VCU's Massey Cancer Center

•   Brian J. Ohlinger, VCU associate vice president, facilities management

WHEN:            11 a.m., Thursday, July 10, 2003