Mary Baldwin College has selected a 30-acre site in Fishersville for its new graduate school for health sciences.
Construction is expected to be completed by June 2014, when the first class of students will enroll.
The project will be financed through a $15 million gift that is expected to cover much of the startup costs until the programs are self-sustaining. Course offerings will include physical therapy, occupational therapy and physician assistant studies.
The property, which now is undeveloped, is about 7 miles from the college's main campus in Staunton. Near Goose Creek Road, it was among more than 20 possible sites in Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County considered for the project.
The health-sciences campus is to be part of a 160-acre mixed-use development that will include housing and a business park. It also will include a 100-acre green-space conservation area.
The college's plans will require approval of a public-use overlay by the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors, said Dennis Burnett, economic development director for Augusta County. Current zoning permits the other planned uses of the development.
The site selected by the college's board of trustees is within a mile of related health care providers, such as University of Virginia Health System clinics, Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center and several senior care facilities.
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