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The Lutheran Medical Campus is located at 8300 W. 38th Avenue in the heart of Wheat Ridge, and it has operated as a medical use since 1905. A new Lutheran hospital is currently being constructed at the Clear Creek Crossing development, and the hospital’s move presents a rare opportunity to reimagine the future of the Lutheran Legacy Campus.
What's New?
Later this year, on August 3, 2024, Lutheran Hospital will move to Clear Creek Crossing at I-70 and W. 40th Avenue. West Pines Behavioral Hospital is planning to move to a larger facility in Westminster in early 2025. Most hospital and affiliated clinics will relocate to the Medical Office Building on the new Clear Creek Crossing campus this fall. Lutheran Hospice will continue to operate at its current location.
The City began preparing for the hospital’s move in early 2021 by facilitating a master planning process to reimagine the future of the Lutheran Legacy Campus. From April 2021 to October 2021, community members were asked to share their visions for the future of the Legacy Campus.
The master plan was adopted by City Council in October 2021. It outlines a framework for future development and describes community expectations and goals. The plan doesn’t identify specific uses or site plans. Instead, it identifies critical elements of redevelopment; these reflect public input and retain reasonable flexibility for future owners.
The master plan describes three key expectations which represent the central tradeoff associated with future redevelopment:
The perimeter should serve as a buffer and transition between the campus and existing adjacent neighborhoods,
Future development should integrate existing assets to the greatest extent possible (such as the chapel, blue house, and trail along the Rocky Mountain Ditch), and in exchange,
The interior will be afforded more flexibility in terms of land use and height.
While the master plan was adopted 2.5 years ago, not much has happened since then and the hospital will vacate the legacy campus soon. In early April, Intermountain Health took their next step to gauge developer interest in the property. The City is also taking action to implement the adopted plan by advancing a City-initiated zone change and charter change. This was discussed with Council on April 8 and was introduced to the community at the April 16 public open house. More information will be added here very soon.
What is the Master Plan?
This document outlines a framework for future development. It describes what the community likes and dislikes, it articulates goals and desires, and it creates guardrails. Ultimately, it communicates to future owners our expectations, without which the property could be developed in a way that runs counter to community wishes. The master plan has a lot of important detail, but in short it communicates three key expectations:
that we expect a buffer and transition on the perimeter,
that we will allow more flexibility on the interior, and
that future owners need to explore ways to integrate existing assets.
The Lutheran Medical Campus has changed and evolved many times over the last 120 years, and this document recognizes the once-in-a-generation opportunity to consider the next many decades that lie ahead.
The Lutheran Medical Campus is located at 8300 W. 38th Avenue in the heart of Wheat Ridge, and it has operated as a medical use since 1905. A new Lutheran hospital is currently being constructed at the Clear Creek Crossing development, and the hospital’s move presents a rare opportunity to reimagine the future of the Lutheran Legacy Campus.
What's New?
Later this year, on August 3, 2024, Lutheran Hospital will move to Clear Creek Crossing at I-70 and W. 40th Avenue. West Pines Behavioral Hospital is planning to move to a larger facility in Westminster in early 2025. Most hospital and affiliated clinics will relocate to the Medical Office Building on the new Clear Creek Crossing campus this fall. Lutheran Hospice will continue to operate at its current location.
The City began preparing for the hospital’s move in early 2021 by facilitating a master planning process to reimagine the future of the Lutheran Legacy Campus. From April 2021 to October 2021, community members were asked to share their visions for the future of the Legacy Campus.
The master plan was adopted by City Council in October 2021. It outlines a framework for future development and describes community expectations and goals. The plan doesn’t identify specific uses or site plans. Instead, it identifies critical elements of redevelopment; these reflect public input and retain reasonable flexibility for future owners.
The master plan describes three key expectations which represent the central tradeoff associated with future redevelopment:
The perimeter should serve as a buffer and transition between the campus and existing adjacent neighborhoods,
Future development should integrate existing assets to the greatest extent possible (such as the chapel, blue house, and trail along the Rocky Mountain Ditch), and in exchange,
The interior will be afforded more flexibility in terms of land use and height.
While the master plan was adopted 2.5 years ago, not much has happened since then and the hospital will vacate the legacy campus soon. In early April, Intermountain Health took their next step to gauge developer interest in the property. The City is also taking action to implement the adopted plan by advancing a City-initiated zone change and charter change. This was discussed with Council on April 8 and was introduced to the community at the April 16 public open house. More information will be added here very soon.
What is the Master Plan?
This document outlines a framework for future development. It describes what the community likes and dislikes, it articulates goals and desires, and it creates guardrails. Ultimately, it communicates to future owners our expectations, without which the property could be developed in a way that runs counter to community wishes. The master plan has a lot of important detail, but in short it communicates three key expectations:
that we expect a buffer and transition on the perimeter,
that we will allow more flexibility on the interior, and
that future owners need to explore ways to integrate existing assets.
The Lutheran Medical Campus has changed and evolved many times over the last 120 years, and this document recognizes the once-in-a-generation opportunity to consider the next many decades that lie ahead.
