With Hahnemann University Hospital closed, Drexel plans to relocate the College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Professions to University City, where they will be side by side in a new “uCity Square” development being built at 36th and Filbert streets.
Wexford Science & Technology, at its own cost, began construction on the uCity Square site in the spring. When pandemic closure orders are lifted, Wexford aims to resume construction and hopes to open for initial occupancy in the academic year 2022–23.
Nursing and Health Professions will move to the new space first, followed by College of Medicine administrative functions in 2023, along with the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies and Drexel’s first- and second-year medical program. Eventually, the College of Medicine will vacate all leased space in Center City as well as the Queen Lane campus. College of Medicine researchers will remain at Queen Lane and in the New College Building until Center City leases expire.
In addition, a new College of Medicine facility near Tower Health’s headquarters in West Reading, Pennsylvania, is slated to begin educating 40 additional first-year medical students in 2021.