Morgan State University is moving forward with plans to demolish part of a former hospital complex to make room for a new, for-profit, private medical school.
The state Board of Public Works approved the demolition of a 181,000-square-foot building known as the Montebello Hospital Complex on June 8, and Morgan State University hopes to welcome the first students into the new school in 2024. The Maryland College of Osteopathic Medicine plans to lease the Montebello complex, originally built in 1955, from Morgan State so it can be demolished to make room for a three-story 130,000-square-foot building with parking and green space. Demolition is set to begin in 2023, after a ground lease is signed between the college and Morgan State.
The school would be the first osteopathic medical school at any historically black college and/or university, and the first new medical school at an HBCU in 45 years.
The new medical school is part of Morgan State’s wave of expansion in recent years, with fall 2022 enrollment set to be the largest in the university’s history, with over 8,500 students. The university is also planning to purchase the Lake Clifton High School property, a 59-acre parcel, to create a satellite campus.
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