The addition is scheduled to open in 2010. The Parkview andTurner buildings, which currently house all eye clinics, will bedemolished once the expansion is complete. The new center,according to a university statement, will make Kellogg "the largestand most comprehensive eye center in the Midwest."

TSA of Massachusetts is the architect. A full wall of glasspanels on the building façade will provide natural light to clinicsand common space. The building will connect with Riverside Park andis compatible with the university health system's master plan forphysical growth, which calls for using its existing Wall Streetproperties to augment the main medical campus across the HuronRiver. "This facility will give two of our signature centers roomto grow," said Robert Kelch, EVP for medical affairs and CEO ofUniversity of Michigan Health System, in a statement.

The building's top two floors will house advanced laboratoriesfor Type 1 diabetes research. This section is funded with a portionof a $44-million donation by Dolores and William Brehm in 2004 andwill include offices of the Brehm Center for Type 1 DiabetesResearch and Analysis. Additional vision research space willinclude capabilities for collaborating with Brehm researchers oneye-related complications of diabetes. Ophthalmology and diabetesactivities will be co-located in the Kellogg addition, and thelaboratories will have open floor plans to allow maximum contactamong researchers.