Reid, IU East, Ivy Tech and Purdue to dedicate road connecting campuses
Reid Hospital and its neighboring educational institutions will formally dedicate and open the connector road between their campuses at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28.
The new Reller Drive links Reid’s new 1100 Reid Parkway campus with Indiana University East, Ivy Tech Community College and Purdue University College of Technology just off Interstate 70. Randy Kirk, Reid Foundation president and Reid vice president, said the brief ceremony opening Reller Drive will include a ribbon-cutting by the road’s namesake, George Reller.
“The Reller family has played a vital role in Reid’s history for more
than 50 years, and we are thrilled to pay tribute to them in the naming of this street,” Kirk
said.
The late Will W. Reller, George Reller’s father, served as president of the Reid
governing board for 20 years and presided during four expansions, including the 1958
Reller wing. George Reller served on the Reid board for almost 30 years, and was president
for nine.
The Reller Drive connection of Reid and the educational campuses is a literal symbol of the increasing opportunities afforded all institutions by being such close neighbors, Kirk said.
The road opening is another step towards the culmination in 2008 of Reid’s construction of a replacement campus. The New Reid Outpatient Care Center opened in August, moving almost all Reid outpatient services to the new location at 1100 Reid Parkway. The next major step in the $300 million project will be the completion of the New Reid Hospital in late July or August 2008. That’s when all other Reid services, such as the emergency department and the hospital, will relocate from the original 1401 Chester Boulevard campus.