Foster Conant to design landscape for Wesley Chapel Medical Center

ORLANDO, FL— Foster Conant & Associates was selected by HuntonBrady Architects to provide landscape architecture for the new Wesley Chapel Medical Center underway in Wesley Chapel, Fla.


Foster Conant is providing design, construction documents and construction observation for landscape, irrigation, hardscape, landscape lighting and site furnishings for the 51-acre site.

This phase of the medical complex is composed of a freestanding, three-story, 250,000-square-foot acute care hospital with 80 beds, diagnostic and treatment departments, and support services, a three-story, 100,650-square-foot medical office building, infrastructure and access roadways.

Plans call for the design of two healing garden spaces on the grounds of the complex. The amount of Foster Conant’s contract is undisclosed.

“We are currently in the concept design phase of this project,” said Foster Conant Principal Keith Oropeza, ASLA. “The construction observation portion of our contract will be scheduled into the overall construction of the access roadway and buildings.”

Pasco-Pinellas Hillsborough Community Health System Inc., a joint venture of Adventist Health System and University Community Health, is the owner and developer of Wesley Chapel Medical Center.



The Florida-based architectural and engineering design team includes HuntonBrady Architects, Orlando; BBM Structural Engineers, Longwood; Smith Seckman Reid Inc., Sarasota, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering; and King Engineering Associates, Tampa, civil engineering.


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Contact: Elaine Ingra, PR WORKS!, PH: 407 384-1344, elainei@pr-works.com, www.pr-works.com