McCarthy Building Companies recently broke ground on the $243 million 351,000-square-foot Banner Gateway Medical Center Tower and Emergency Department expansion/renovation project located at 1900 N. Higley Rd. in Gilbert. The expansion essentially doubles the size of the medical center campus, addressing growing needs for women’s services and cancer care by bringing an additional patient tower, an expanded diagnostics and treatment area, and parking.

The planned expansion includes a second five-story patient tower. The new tower is a 208,500-square-foot addition that will bring 109 new patient beds to the facility initially, and provides the ability to increase the capacity of patient beds by an additional 72 to 358 total beds. The project also includes a three-level 85,000-square-foot expansion to the diagnostics and treatment building.

The architect on the project is SmithGroup with civil engineering led by Dibble Engineering and structural engineering led by PK Associates. Field Verified is serving as an exterior skin consultant. Major trade partners include AmFab Steel, MKB, AROK, Buesing Excavation, Delta Electric, Foothills Fire, KT Fab, Otis Elevators, Stafford Crane, SwissLog, TD Industries and Walters & Wolf.