ANN ARBOR (WWJ) - Construction was halted at site of the future Kahn Health Care Pavilion on the University of Michigan Health campus in Ann Arbor on Thursday morning after receiving a bomb threat, officials confirmed.
Melissa Overton, Deputy Chief of Police and Public Information Officer with the University of Michigan Police Department's Division of Public Safety & Security (DPSS), told WWJ that officials received the bomb threat targeting the Michigan Medicine Clinical Inpatient Tower construction site on the corner of Zina Pitcher Place and East Ann Street the morning of Jan. 25.
The site along with the surrounding are was evacuated.
University police officers along with K-9s trained in ordnance detection were deployed to the scene and searched the site, but no devices of suspicious circumstances were found.
"It was determined that there was no threat to the community," Overton said.
The incident remains under investigation by DPSS in partnership with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
According to the Michigan Medicine website, the Kahn Health Care Pavilion is being constructed on the university health system's main campus to the tune of $920 million.
The 12-story inpatient facility will add 690,000 square feet of space to Michigan Medicine and 264 rooms that can convert to intensive care. It will also house a state-of-the-art neurosciences center as well as offer specialty care services for cardiovascular and thoracic patients.
The new adult inpatient facility is scheduled to open for patient care in the fall of 2025