By Greg Moberly,
gregm@theunion.com
February 4, 2008
OTHER
NEWS.....
Nevada City Planning
Commission Approves Development of New Homes
(November 18th, 2010)
Robert Upton appointed as Court
Receiver
(August 5th, 2009)
Liberty Hill Offices Get Its First Occupant
(The Union - May 4, 2008)
Liberty Hill - Filling a Need
(The Union - February 4, 2008)
Tech Firms Promise Shining Future
for Nevada County
(The Union January
16, 2008)
Tech Center Expands
(The Union - December 3, 2007)
Technology & Trees
(PDF)
(Nevada County Business News - December 2007)
2Wire eyes bigger slice of tech area
(The Union - May 2, 2007)
Building a Future for Our Children
(The Union - May 1, 2007)
Tech firms promise shining future
for Nevada County
(The Union - January 16, 2007)
Tech Center to open offices in
Spring
(The Union - September 9, 2006)
A good fit for Larkspur
Landing
(Marin Independent Journal - August 25, 2005)
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FILLING A
NEED
New medical building caters to aging population
A plan to construct a new building in the Nevada City Tech Center geared
toward the area's medical needs could attract more doctors and provide more
modern and accommodating facilities for area residents, said an official who
would sell the space.
The proposed 22,000-square-foot, two-story building on flat land adjacent to
2Wire could help doctors and patients simply by offering services in a
centralized location, said the project's agent, Lock Richards of Sperry Van
Ness/Highland Commercial
"We're excited because we think this is the type of product that is missing
in Nevada City," said Richards.
A scattered assortment of doctors' offices in older buildings is often where
people go locally, Richards said.
"A lot of older buildings in our area are difficult to retrofit," Richards
said. "We're trying to avoid all these issues by building new."
With the new medical building, the tech center would provide one thing the
county needed - more higher-paying jobs in the health care industry,
according to a December economic development study. That would appear to be
a no-brainer in a county that is one of the oldest in the state and
therefore in need of more medical care.
The more accommodating building would have a patient drop-off area and an
elevator to the second floor, Richards said.
Depending on size requirements, it could include room for up to 15 doctors,
Richards said.
Construction is slated to start this spring, with the building completed in
early 2009.
The planned tech center building isn't the only medical building in the
works.
A two-story, 25,000-square-foot medical building at 280 Sierra College Drive
could begin housing its first tenants shortly after the beginning of May,
said Jeff Johnson, president of Pacific Land Enterprises, Inc.
"I think there's a demand with the (area's) existing medical doctors for
space like this," Johnson said.
Like Richards, Johnson sees the demand for a well-designed building with
sufficient parking as key.
Also, plans for two new medical buildings at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
are in the works.
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gmoberly@theunion.com or call
477-4234.
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