When Cooper Health System leaders stood under a giant tent in 2022 to unveil the nonprofit’s $2 billion building program in the city, the ground underneath was part of a huge, landscaped lot at Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard and Haddon Avenue that now is a key part of the expansion.
The 7.8 acres that held the event tent next to the hospital is the site of a planned 10-story, 332,970-square-foot hospital tower that connects to the existing hospital, according to plans on file with the city of Camden.
“Tower A,” as Cooper is calling the building, is scheduled to be reviewed on April 11 by the Camden Planning Board, which would need to approve the nonprofit hospital’s preliminary and final major site plans before the project begins. Two other towers are also planned, according to the 2022 announcement.
“Tower A is part of Cooper’s long-term investment in the community, and it will serve as the initial project for future demolition and construction to upgrade other areas of the hospital campus,” Cooper lawyer Kevin D. Sheehan of the Parker McCay law firm of Mount Laurel wrote in the March 22 application letter. “Once constructed, CHS will begin transitioning existing healthcare uses from older areas of the hospital into the newly constructed Tower A.”