What was once a block of homes is now a large patch of dirt that’s being transformed into a parking lot.
As part of Suburban Hospital’s $272 million Campus Enhancement Project, crews over the last few months tore down unoccupied homes along the north side of Lincoln Street in Bethesda, ripped out trees and removed other shrubbery to make way for an interim parking lot.
The interim parking lot will serve hospital users while the existing garage is replaced with a new 1,125-space garage.
The new garage is set to be completed in 2017. At that time, parking will shift there while construction begisn on the new four-story, 300,000-square-foot clinical center on the site of the interim parking lot.
Suburban Hospital said work over the next month will include final grading, utility installation, curb and gutter work and paving of the interim lot.
Crews will also put in new walls for a batch of oxygen tanks that have been relocated from Lincoln Street to the McKinley Street side of the hospital.
As part of the project, Suburban will install sidewalks along Grant and McKinley streets. That work is set to begin at the end of this week or early next week, according to a hospital update provided Wednesday.
The project will require the closure of Lincoln Street between Old Georgetown Road and Grant Street. The hospital said there is not yet a set date for the closure, but it’s expected to happen in late June.
Work on the parking lot can begin at 7 a.m. on weekdays. Suburban Hospital said work will not begin before 9 a.m. on Saturdays.
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