Tightly wedged between the University of Pennsylvania and the Schuylkill River, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has long faced a challenge: how to expand in a city with little room to grow.
To address the space crunch, CHOP turned to architecture firm Cooper Robertson to craft three master plans aimed at guiding its future growth, including more patient beds, research labs, and office space.
A key milestone in that vision is set to open later this year: the 17-story Morgan Center for Research and Innovation at 600 Schuylkill Ave. Meanwhile, work has begun on the 26-story Roberts Children’s Health Tower at 3501 Civic Center Blvd., a 1.3 million-square-foot project expected to open in 2028.
CHOP’s dilemma is common among major urban hospitals, where decades-old campuses are hemmed in by dense development and neighbors reluctant to sell.
The hospital is bordered on all sides by Penn’s main campus, its teaching hospital, and Franklin Field to the north; and The Woodlands, a historic estate and cemetery, to the west. It’s a geographic squeeze familiar to peer institutions like Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and UCSF’s Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco, both of which have had to rethink how and where they grow.
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