AZCentral is reporting that the City of Phoenix has come to an agreement to build an outpatient clinical cancer center near Fillmore and Seventh Street on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. The City Council is expected to approve $14 million to initiate the process at the May 18 council meeting. The 250,000-square-foot facility could begin construction by the end of 2012 and upon completion would be able to handle 200,000 patient visits a year. The remainder of the $135 million cost will be funded through private donations to be raised by the University of Arizona Foundation.
The cancer center will join the Health Sciences Education Building currently under construction, with TGEN/IGC and the U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix already in place. For more information on the burgeoning Phoenix Biomedical Campus and plans for the new cancer center please visit: Phoenix, UA Reach Deal for $135 Million Downtown Cancer Center
The park is located adjacent to the Burton Barr Library and is home to the Irish Cultural Center and Japanese Friendship Garden and hosts a number of civic and cultural events throughout the year. For an in-depth look at the history of the park and possible plans for the future, please visit: 
building will be located on the parcel directly south of the existing Translational Genomics Institute (TGEN) and will join the Arizona Biomedical Collaborative (ABC1) and University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix.
Last month, the State Joint Committee on Capital Review gave the go-ahead to begin construction on the Health Sciences Education building to be located north of the northwest corner of Seventh Street and Van Buren (shown left). The approval came after months of waiting and a public support campaign of citizens who understood the importance of the building to the future of bioscience development in Downtown Phoenix.
