Expanding University of Iowa Health Care aims to lease former Steindler space

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IOWA CITY — A few months after 75-year-old Steindler Orthopedic Clinic in March vacated its longtime home in east Iowa City for a new 100,000-square-foot clinic and surgery center in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care is eyeing Steindler’s old digs as a new home for its Department of Family and Community Medicine.

In preparing to move this year, Steindler in 2022 sold the 33,900-square-foot medical clinic and office building at 2751 Northgate Drive for $11 million to a Kansas City-based buyer. With UIHC now undertaking a systemwide renovation and expansion — involving, among other things, a new $525.6 million orthopedic hospital in North Liberty just two miles from Steindler’s ne