LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Development firms have been chosen to construct Nevada’s first stand-alone kids’s hospital, which is projected to open within the southwest valley in 2030.
Intermountain Well being named The PENTA Constructing Group and Jacobsen Development as companions on Nevada Kids’s Hospital in a Wednesday announcement.
PENTA lately constructed the three-story BLVD procuring heart on the Strip and has an extended historical past of initiatives right here. The corporate has workplaces in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Southern California. The corporate at present has $11 billion in initiatives throughout the nation, in response to its web site.
Jacobsen is predicated in Salt Lake Metropolis, and lately constructed Intermountain Main Kids’s Hospital in Lehi. That hospital opened in 2024.
The hospital can be constructed at UNLV’s Harry Reid Analysis and Expertise Park, simply northeast of the 215 Beltway at S. Durango Drive. Groundbreaking is deliberate in 2026.
The long run website of Nevada Kids’s Hospital. (Picture: Intermountain Well being)
“It was vital for us in the contractor selection to bring both ingenuity and craftmanship along with the aspect of homegrown Nevada connections,” Lawrence Barnard, president of the Intermountain Well being Nevada Kids’s Hospital, stated. “The Nevada Children’s Hospital is poised to be state-of-art, welcoming families close to home with the compassionate service for which Intermountain is known.”
When full, it will likely be the primary stand-alone hospital in Nevada that’s totally devoted to kids’s well being, eliminating the necessity to journey out of state for some procedures.
“The Intermountain Health Children’s Hospital is going to be an incredible addition to the Las Vegas community, and The PENTA Building Group is excited to partner with Jacobson Construction to help make it a reality,” John Cannito, PENTA’s president and CEO, stated.
“As a local Las Vegas contractor, we see this as more than just another construction project; it’s an opportunity to be part of something amazing that is going to make Southern Nevada a better place for our families and friends. We are proud to be selected by Intermountain Health as a partner in this historic initiative,” Cannito stated.
In January, architects Shepley Bulfinch and Gensler have been introduced, and a lease settlement for the location was signed.
