Groundbreaking set for Marriott Residence Inn on Phoenix campus of Mayo Clinic

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

PHOENIX — Mayo Clinic will host a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 25, for a 208-room Marriott Residence Inn that will be housed on the Phoenix campus of Mayo Clinic.

Construction of the hotel follows a Mayo Clinic tradition of having a Marriott hotel on each of its campuses for the convenience of patients. The Scottsdale campus of Mayo Clinic, at 134th Street and Shea Boulevard, houses a Courtyard by Marriott hotel. Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., is also the site of a Courtyard by Marriott. The Marriott Rochester at Mayo Clinic is located in downtown Rochester, Minn. Locating the Residence Inn on the Phoenix campus, 5777 E. Mayo Blvd., will provide convenience for patients who access the services of Mayo Clinic Hospital and the Mayo Clinic Specialty Building.

The new Residence Inn will be developed and owned by the Robert Finvarb Group, and Marriott International will manage the property, which will be located on the southeast corner of 56th Street and Mayo Boulevard in northeast Phoenix.

Participants in the groundbreaking event, which will be at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, on the northeast side of the Phoenix campus, will include representatives of the Finvarb Group and Marriott, as well as Mayo Clinic personnel and the city of Phoenix. Completion of the hotel is expected to be in winter 2008.

About Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world. As a leading academic medical center in the Southwest, Mayo Clinic focuses on providing specialty and surgical care in more than 65 disciplines at its outpatient facility in north Scottsdale and at Mayo Clinic Hospital. The 208-licensed bed hospital is located at 56th Street and Mayo Boulevard (north of Bell Road) in northeast Phoenix, and provides inpatient care to support the medical and surgical specialties of the clinic, which is located at 134th Street and Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale.

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About Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world. Doctors from every medical specialty work together to care for patients, joined by common systems and a philosophy of "the needs of the patient come first." More than 3,700 physicians, scientists and researchers and 50,100 allied health staff work at Mayo Clinic, which has sites in Rochester, Minn; Jacksonville, Fla; and Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz. and community based providers in more than 70 locations in Southern Minn., Western Wis. and Northeast Iowa. These locations treat more than half a million people each year. To obtain the latest news releases from Mayo Clinic, go to www.mayoclinic.org/news. For information about research and education, visit www.mayo.edu. MayoClinic.com is available as a resource for your health stories.