Steel beams are going vertical on the southwest corner of Farnam Street & Saddle Creek Road. That’s where the University of Nebraska Medical Center is building its Campus Operations and Research Excellence Building. The Leo A. Daly rendering shows what the 6-story building will look like when it’s complete in the summer of 2026. The facility will support computer-based research and wet lab-based research for drug discovery, oncology research and other strategic research areas at UNMC.
The CORE Building will serve as the cornerstone of UNMC’s new Saddle Creek Campus at the corner of Saddle Creek Road and Farnam Street. The site also is in proximity to the Catalyst building, scheduled for completion later this year, which will bring together UNMC’s UNeMed and UNeTech branches with biotech and technology startups and make the CORE Building ideal for research that leads to product and drug collaboration and innovation.
The building is being designed to accommodate a future pedestrian bridge structure crossing over Saddle Creek Road, linking the Saddle Creek Campus to the main academic health science campus. Work also has begun on an adjacent parking structure – which the City of Omaha will pay for, own and operate – to serve the building.
