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The Pacific University Health Professions Campus is a satellite campus of Pacific University located in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Opened in 2006, the campus contains the school's College of Health Professions with plans to move Pacific's College of Optometry and School of Professional Psychology in later phases. Housed in two brick buildings, the campus is located in the city's Health and Education District and adjacent to the Tuality Hospital/Southeast 8th Avenue light rail station. The campus of Tuality Community Hospital is across Baseline Street to the south. ==History== In March 2005, Pacific University’s board of trustees decided to build a new campus in Hillsboro to house the college’s healthcare related programs.〔Earnshaw, Aliza. (Pacific University to expand in Hillsboro ). ''Portland Business Journal'', April 4, 2005.〕 In May 2005, the university purchased a half-acre of land from Tuality Healthcare next to Tuality Hospital for the campus.〔(Pacific University expands to Hillsboro ), ''Portland Business Journal'', May 20, 2005.〕 Plans called for an initial building to cost $30 million followed by a building, both constructed over a three- to five-year period.〔 The Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Hillsboro was also to move into the building.〔 The decision to move these programs from the main Forest Grove campus was made to move the programs closer to hospitals the programs had relationships with such as Oregon Health & Sciences University and Tuality Hospital.〔 The move also allowed the university to have students closer to patients and to allow for the College of Liberal Arts to expand and its main campus.〔Smith, Kennedy. “Pacific University approves construction of a Hillsboro campus extension”, ''Daily Journal of Commerce'', April 6, 2005.〕 Pacific balanced a need to expand closer to health care partners and its longstanding relationship with Forest Grove.〔Christensen, Nick. (“Search on for new Pacific University president: Creighton led university's growth, within Forest Grove and east to Hillsboro”, ) ''The Hillsboro Argus'', September 22, 2008.〕 Pacific partnered with the federal government, the city of Hillsboro, health care providers, Washington County, and private developers.〔 The second phase of the campus was expected to cost $45 million and have of space,〔 built on a second half-acre parcel the school purchased an option to from Tuality.〔Daily Journal of Commerce Staff. “Pacific University begins move into Hillsboro with campus construction”, ''Daily Journal of Commerce'', August 9, 2005.〕 Pacific’s psychology and optometry schools would relocate to the campus once the second phase was built.〔 Once both parts were completed the campus was expected to have 1,300 students and approximately 150 faculty or staff.〔 On August 9, 2005, a groundbreaking was held at the site and construction began with Lease Crutcher Lewis as the general contractor.〔 In August 2006, the initial building of the campus was completed.〔Finnemore, Melody. (Pacific U. arranges clinical training for health fields ), ''Portland Business Journal'', November 2, 2007.〕 Prior to opening, residents of the area raised concerns about adequate parking for the campus.〔Bermudez, Esmeralda. “Health campus raises parking issues”, ''The Oregonian'', June 28, 2006. p. D3.〕 These concerns led the city and university to seek state funding to build a parking garage estimated to cost $16 million.〔Bermudez, Esmeralda. “State funds sought to build parking garage”, ''The Oregonian'', February 23, 2007. p. C3.〕 Once built, the 500 space garage would be owned by the city and would allow Pacific to complete the second phase of construction on the campus.〔〔Rostami, Marjon. “Pacific University shares Hillsboro master plan”, ''The Oregonian'', July 19, 2007. p. 8.〕 Oregon gave the school lottery backed bonds in the amount of $7 million to help finance construction.〔 The first campus building was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold status in December 2007.〔DJC Staff. "SRG designs second LEED Gold building", ''Daily Journal of Commerce'', January 15, 2008.〕 Future plans call for three additional structures on the campus.〔 A second building was approved for a location north of the first building by the city after a variance was needed to the local zoning code.〔Suh, Elizabeth. “Critics appeal plan for new Pacific building”, ''The Oregonian'', September 17, 2008. p. D3.〕 Neighbors objected to the structure and lost an appeal to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) concerning the four-story building.〔〔(David v. City of Hillsboro, (2008-023). ) Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals. Retrieved on November 3, 2008.〕 In November 2008, the Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed the LUBA decision, with the land cleared by December. Construction of the structure was planned to begin in 2009 with completion in early 2010.〔 〕 The school plans to open a third building in 2014, and in ten years a fourth building planned to be built on the site of part of the Miller Education Center.〔 Construction of the parking garage, the Hillsboro Intermodal Transit Facility, began in 2009 and will include electric vehicle charging stations and a secure bike facility that has lockers and showers. The original building on campus was dedicated as Phillip D. Creighton Hall in July 2009. Creighton had been the president of Pacific when the campus was developed.〔 In August 2010, the second building on campus opened, and the area around the campus became part of Hillsboro's Health and Education District. A doctoral program for audiology was added in 2012, housed in Tuality Healthcare's 7th Avenue Medical Plaza a few blocks from the university's campus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pacific University Health Professions Campus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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