St. Cloud-based CentraCare is preparing to open a major expansion of its Plaza campus in that city on June 29, marking one of the health system’s largest recent investments and complementing additional growth initiatives underway across Minnesota. The $194 million project adds 225,000 square feet to the Plaza, a key outpatient hub on the city’s south side. It also brings to an estimated $650 million its investment in capital improvements across the state over the past decade.
The St. Cloud Plaza has steadily evolved since its 2002 debut, with more than a dozen additions and remodels over the past two decades. This latest three‑story expansion reshapes the west side of the 128‑acre campus with a new primary entrance and a layout designed to consolidate services that had been scattered across multiple sites. Construction began in 2024 and involved more than 120 contractors and a daily workforce that regularly exceeded 250 people.
A streamlined portion of the clinical upgrades includes expanded ambulatory surgery capacity, consolidated specialty clinics and a significantly larger orthopedics footprint. A new 60,000‑square‑foot rehabilitation center brings multiple therapy disciplines together and adds advanced movement‑training technology, while accessibility improvements include 40 disability‑accessible parking stalls. The project also introduces a medspa and creates space for Midsota Plastic Surgery (more here).
The St. Cloud expansion is part of a broader systemwide push by CentraCare to modernize and expand care across Minnesota. In recent years the organization has invested heavily in upgrades at its Long Prairie, Monticello, Paynesville, Redwood Falls, Sauk Centre, Melrose and Willmar sites, along with expanded behavioral‑health capacity and new outpatient capabilities in several regional communities.
The health system has also been strengthening referral networks and specialty‑care access in neighboring states, particularly the eastern Dakotas and western Wisconsin, where patients increasingly travel to St. Cloud for advanced services.
