Plans for new Regional One campus move forward as price moves up
The Regional One Health rebuild plan would replace the hospital’s aging campus on Jefferson Avenue with a modern facility at 495 Union Ave. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Regional One Health is moving forward with its plans to transform The Commercial Appeal’s former 16-acre campus near Downtown Memphis into a more than $1 billion full academic medical center.
It will replace Regional One’s aging campus on Jefferson Avenue with a modern facility at 495 Union Ave., which has sat vacant since the newspaper left in 2019.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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