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Barton Malow, Turner and Detroit-based Dixon have placed the final beam on a 20-story tower at the Henry Ford Hospital expansion project.
Published May 26, 2026
A rendering of the forthcoming Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich.
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A joint venture has topped out a key part of a $2.2 billion hospital expansion in Detroit.
The Henry Ford Hospital expansion project, known as Destination: Grand, is under construction from BTD, a project team made up of local and national builders that broke ground on the expansion in 2024.
The JV of Southfield, Michigan-based Barton Malow, New York City-based Turner Construction and Detroit-based Dixon, placed the final beam on the hospital’s tower on May 14, according to an announcement from the hospital.
When the tower is complete, it will be divided into low-rise and high-rise sections and span 20 stories, according to a Destination: Grand fact sheet. It will contain 432 private patient rooms with advanced technology, per the announcement.
Five floors of the tower will be dedicated to specialized intensive care units, while the low-rise section of the structure will hold 28 operating suites.
The construction team will add a 1,500-space parking garage; a shared services building that will contain the hospital’s kitchen, pharmacy and laboratory; and a central energy hub that will produce clean energy for the facility. That will make Henry Ford Hospital one of the largest all-electric hospitals in the U.S., per the announcement.
The expansion plan is funded by capital investment from the hospital network, along with philanthropic contributions. One such fundraising campaign, known as “Rising Above, Reaching Beyond,” has raised $241 million, with total contributions reaching $653 million, per the May 14 announcement.
The hospital’s expansion is part of the larger, $3 billion Future of Health: Detroit transformation plan, according to the announcement. The plan aims to turn Detroit’s New Center neighborhood into a walkable community featuring mixed-use development, per the project’s website.
Alongside the hospital expansion, the Future of Health plan aims to create a new medical research facility at Michigan State University projected to open in 2027. It will also include affordable housing developments and retail space, according to the Future of Health project page.
The construction team is on schedule to complete the hospital in 2029, according to the announcement.
This isn’t the only hospital megaproject in the region — a JV of Turner and Chicago-based Walsh finished work on a new $1.5 billion Ohio State University hospital in Columbus in March. Turner also began vertical construction on the $900 million Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center expansion in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, that same month.
