The Murray City Planning Commission has unanimously approved plans for a new cancer center tower at Intermountain Medical Center. The expansion will include a nine-story building totaling just over 539,000 square feet of new space.
The proposed tower will be built on a surface parking lot located to the northeast of the main hospital tower on the 63-acre medical center site. While the building's height is approximately 149 feet from the finished grade to the highest point of the roof, it remains well within the limits allowed by the Commercial (C-D) zoning. Because medical services are a conditional use under this zoning, the commission's vote on the updated conditional use permit was required to move the project forward.
Additional infrastructure will support the new facility, including a new four-level, 665-stall parking structure to be built along State Street. This addition will bring the total number of parking stalls at the complex to approximately 4,900. Plans also include a pedestrian bridge to connect the cancer center with the new parking structure and an expansion of the complex's central utility plan.
Jeff Pinegar, a principal at VCBO Architecture, stated that construction for the parking structure could begin near the beginning of 2027. Other aspects of the project are expected to begin construction in the spring of 2027. During the planning process, the commission added a condition to encourage the preservation of existing trees on the property, a move Pinegar said Intermountain Health would support.
The approval follows a previous conditional use permit granted in 2004 that allowed for the initial construction of the hospital complex. This expansion is part of broader developments in the area, as the Murray City Council is considering a plan for development around the Murray Central Station, and Intermountain Health is also planning a hospital project in Downtown Salt Lake City.
