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Friday, April 19
Efforts are moving forward to tear down the shuttered Edgewater Medical Center and turn the land into a park. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill will lead a discussion of the plan June 27. Meanwhile, a developer is trying to push for an apartment complex on the site.