The state Board of Regents voted unanimously to approve plans for a $23 million West Campus Transportation Center at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on Wednesday.

The center, which will include a new Cambus route, parking garage, and overhead walkway to the hospital complex, will be built near Kinnick Stadium on Evashevski Drive.

The facility will also contain an 11,000-square-foot office structure for parking and Cambus operations.

Officials said the first phase of the center, consisting of transportation offices, the transit hub, and walkway, will be completed in July 2012. The center will help accommodate the traffic from the upcoming new Children’s Hospital, they said.

— by Luke Voelz