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The almost 30,000-square-foot, two-story structure is known as the Providence Medical Group office building at Britton Plaza. It will be the 21st medical facility in Thurston, Lewis, Mason and Grays Harbor counties that operate under the banner of Providence Medical Group, Southwest Washington.
Providence has signed a long-term lease for the building.
Dr. Rik Emaus, chief executive of Providence Medical Group, Southwest Washington, said a medical facility will serve the area’s growth, including places such as Jubilee, the large residential community for those 55 and older.
The medical center at 2555 Marvin Road likely will be more convenient to residents in the area, saving them a trip to Providence St. Peter Hospital or one of its nearby clinics, Emaus said.
Opening in the first phase will be Hawks Prairie Internal Medicine, which eventually will move from its Martin Way site to the new building, as well as Hawks Prairie Family Medicine, an endocrinology and advanced-disease-management department, a lab and radiology services, Emaus said.
Another primary-care team of doctors will open a department in the building during its second phase; a date for that has not been set, he said.
About 60 to 75 people ultimately will work in the building, Emaus said.
Meanwhile, Drs. Mike Lynam and Peter Taylor, two longtime South Sound physicians who recently joined Providence Medical Group, will initially head up Hawks Prairie Family Medicine.
The two said Thursday that the larger facility will allow them to expand their practice, tap into a modern record-keeping system and serve an area that currently isn’t served by primary care.
“Some of our patients have expressed excitement that we are going to be closer to them,” Taylor said. Lynam added that the new facility also should better accommodate their elderly and handicapped patients.
The new building also anchors a Britton Plaza development that has been a long time coming for developers and co-owners Bob Pearson and Michael Cholerton of Puyallup.
Cholerton also is the president of the construction side of the business.
The 13-acre development has been in the works since 2007 and is gaining steam now that the Providence clinic is rising from the ground, Cholerton said. New interest in the site has the developers working toward an 8,000-square-foot retail building next to Providence, and Cholerton said the site can accommodate up to seven buildings.
Other possible tenants include a restaurant or a bank branch, he said.
“It’s partly because of Providence and partly because of the economy improving a bit,” Cholerton said about the development’s recent momentum.
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