LACROSSE, Wis. – With its new $200 million LaCrosse hospital due to open September, Mayo Clinic will have less need for most of the existing main structure, according to Karen Finneman Killinger, chair of facilities. Details still are being worked through, but expect the massive 90-year-old structure to be razed, she told the LaCrosse Tribune. For the time being, she said, some services will remain in place but eventually will be transferred to other places on the campus. It’s likely the massive nine-story facility – remembered by many as Franciscan Skemp — will be gone by 2029, she said.
