The University of Virginia Health System hopes to start a clinic in Augusta County that would house primary care, specialty care and associated diagnostic and pharmacy services. UVa hopes to house its Biocomplexity Institute at the UVa Research Park near the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, but most buildings in the research park were built for office use and the institute’s space will need to be reconfigured into laboratory space.

The health system has a pending lease on an Augusta County space and will need to spend $8 million to $12 million to make the space a clinic, according to material presented to the board. The Biocomplexity Institute needs $12.9 million to update its space.

While other items do not need an urgent go-ahead at the moment, Colette Sheehy, UVa’s senior vice president for operations, discussed roughly $600 million in new projects that need to be added to the university’s long-term capital planning, such as a building for the proposed School of Data Science, two parking garages and a performing arts center.