Dive Brief:

• At last, two of three buildings planned for the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson will be erected on sites other than where architects planned them. The move resulted from a radar survey discovery of 800 to 1,000 graves.
• The finding, by ground-penetrating radar, was not a complete surprise because graves have been found before on the campus, which was the site of the Mississippi State Insane Asylum and also a potter's field for the poor, a university spokesman said.
• A six-story parking garage for 1,050 cars is being relocated across the campus, and officials are looking for a new site for a planned American Cancer Society of Mississippi Hope Lodge. The Mississippi Children’s Justice Center may go on as planned because it is the smallest of the three buildings.

Dive Insight:

The construction site also may have been where an African-American church was, and there is some evidence that a Civil War burial ground may have been there, too. A road-widening project last year revealed 66 graves unexpectedly, which prompted the radar survey for the current plan.