HealthPartners officials last week shared plans with the Stillwater City Council for the proposed $400 million Lakeview Hospital campus at the northeast corner of Minnesota 36 and Manning Avenue.

They plan to share them with nearby residents next week.

HealthPartners is hosting a public meeting at The Lakes at Stillwater on Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m. to give community members a chance to meet hospital team members and architects working on the new campus. Officials plan to share results from one community participation survey It was held last spring; More than 1,200 people responded.

“Our teams are excited to take the next step and connect directly with the people who will use our services,” said Lakeview Hospital President Brandi Lunneborg. “We are so excited to meet directly with community members to answer questions and listen to their ideas. “These conversations will further inform design.”

HealthPartners filed a report on November 6 concept plan review request To Stillwater City Council for 64-acre hospital campus. The new hospital, expected to open in late 2027 or early 2028, will include specialized centers for emergency medicine, advanced critical care and cardiac, cancer and orthopedic care.

The hospital is proposed to be 104 feet high; An architect’s drawing of the building shows it to be six stories high. This height exceeds current zoning limits (three stories in the public administration district); council members were therefore asked to consider whether the height was appropriate for the site, “taking into account potential visual impacts and any flexibility available with planned unit development or height.” transition strategies,” according to a staff memo included in the council package.

City Manager Joe Kohlmann said council members wanted more detailed drawings showing the elevation scale of the surrounding area.

Lakeview’s “patients and families, colleagues, and our clinicians deserve a thoughtfully designed destination that supports all that healthcare is for the community: a welcoming, safe place of health and healing; a beacon of hope and compassion,” Lunneborg said. “We are also very fortunate to have a new location that offers natural beauty, visibility and ease of navigation for those seeking healthcare. “This new hospital campus is a necessary and rare opportunity to reinforce our commitment to community health while partnering with those we care about to create a hospital campus everyone can be proud of.”

Communication concerns

But some residents who live near the new hospital expressed concern that they were not aware of Lakeview’s plans until they checked the agenda for the Stillwater City Council’s Nov. 6 meeting.

“I understand and understand that there have been delays in plans for such a large-scale construction project, but the hospital’s lack of communication and interaction with our neighborhood has been almost minimal, to say the least,” said Kelly Seivert. “Lakeview is moving into our neighborhood. “Our wonderful neighborhood was established in 1999, and we deserve and expect greater detail, communication, and robust answers to how this will impact and impact our homes, daily lives, and neighborhood.”

Homeowner Rebecca Lentz expressed concern about the increase Traffic on 62nd Street He said he learned of Lakeview’s plans “just by looking at the city council agenda” after the land was developed.

Lakeview officials promised last March to contact nearby homeowners by mid-summer, Lentz said.

“This is poor planning, a lack of civic commitment, failure to deliver on promises and a shameful lack of public participation,” Lentz said.