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UNG has big plans for old Lanier Tech site
Gainesville campus to update building in $19M renovation
BY JOSHUA SILAVENT
jsilavent@gainesvilletimes.com
After years of anticipation, the Uni
versity of North Georgia will officially
acquire the former Lanier Technical
College property adjoining the univer
sity’s Gainesville campus on Monday,
July 1.
And that sets the stage for UNG
to begin renovating the decades-old
buildings, a $19 million project with
work likely to begin this fall and com
pleted over 14 months.
“Acquiring this property is going to
be transformative for this campus,”
said Dr. Richard Oates, vice president
of UNG’s Gainesville campus.
Oates said he expects the former
Lanier Tech property to be seam
lessly integrated into the university’s
burgeoning campus.
“It’s very consistent with our 10-year
facility master plan,” he added. “It’s
another piece of the puzzle.”
Plans to renovate and add to the
vacated buildings have been in the
works for some time as Lanier Tech
built a new campus on Ga. 365 at How
ard Road in North Hall and officially
opened there this past January.
In 2018, UNG received $3 million in
state funding to begin the initial design
phase of the redevelopment.
For the fiscal year beginning this
July, the state budget includes $13.6
million for the actual construction and
renovation work.
Renovations will include everything
from touch-ups to gutting buildings
and completely overhauling them,
according to UNG officials.
The third and final phase, which
UNG expects to have funding for in
the 2021 fiscal year state budget, will
help purchase materials and equip
ment to furnish the new space.
UNG is acquiring seven buildings
in all with a combined 165,000 square
feet of instructional and administra
tive space to support the growing
enrollment and student needs at the
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SCOTT ROGERS I The Times
The University of North Georgia will make use of the Lanier
Tech buildings adjacent to UNG’s Gainesville campus for an
expansion, with work likely to begin this fall.
Work continues
at Chateau Elan
BY JEFF GILL
jgill@gainesvilletimes.com
Like a cocktail in one of
its posh restaurants, sounds
of construction are mixing
these days with the every
day details of maintaining a
major resort.
The $25 million make
over of Chateau Elan Win
ery & Resort at 100 Rue
Charlemagne Drive, Bra-
selton, just a couple miles
outside South Hall, is well
underway and still on target
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SCOTT ROGERS I The Times
Chateau Elan is undergoing $25 million in renovation work.
Lanier drowning
victim identified
The doctors are in
SCOn ROGERS I The Times
Northeast Georgia Medical Center resident physicians watch the action Monday, June 24, during the Inaugural Resident
Physician White Coat Ceremony.
Gainesville’s resident physicians starting July 1
BY LAYNE SALIBA
lsaliba@gainesviletimes.com
The dive team and sonar
searches for a man
who reportedly
drowned in Lake
Lanier near Vanns
Tavern Park were
suspended due to
heavy boat traffic
Saturday, June 29.
Corey Lamar
Brown, 28, of
Atlanta, was on
a rented double-decker
pontoon boat Friday,
June 28, with a group of
people jumping from the
top and sliding down a
slide, according to Sgt. Lee
Brown with the Georgia
Department of
Natural Resources.
“They had
rented a pontoon
boat and they were
out on the lake
for the day swim
ming,” Sgt. Brown
said. “From what I
understand, he was
going after some
one else and he started
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BY MEGAN REED
mreed@gainesvilletimes.com
Gainesville’s newest
doctors will start seeing
patients on Monday, July 1,
forging a path as Northeast
Georgia Medical Center’s
first residents in the hospi
tal’s graduate medical edu
cation program.
The 26 physicians will
be working in internal
medicine and general sur
gery, doing rotations at the
Gainesville and Braselton
hospitals, as well as local
outpatient centers and
clinics.
For Dr. Sameena Salcin,
an internal medicine resi
dent, the graduate medi
cal education program is a
return home. The Atlanta
native and University of
Georgia alumna said she
sees medicine as a way to
give back to her home state.
Salcin worked on global
health policy in Washing
ton D.C. after college, then
went to medical school at
American University of
the Caribbean and spent a
year working at a hospital
in London.
“For the longest time,
I really thought that the
greatest need in health
care was in international
developing countries and
those populations, but I
had several experiences
in medical school that led
me to the conclusion that
every community around
the world has patient pop
ulations that are suffer
ing from access to health
care,” Salcin said. “That is
definitely true in Georgia.
We have one of the larg
est health care physician
shortages. I came to the
conclusion that I could do
the most good by coming
back home.”
Addressing that physi
cian shortage, especially
in rural areas of North
east Georgia, is the goal
of the residency program,
according to Dr. John Del-
zell, the hospital’s vice
president for graduate
medical education.
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