Medical Center Breaks Ground

December 25, 2008
Section: MONEY & MORE
Page: 06
GREG GROSS For the Daily Record/Sunday News

The first phase of a new medical center in York Township is expected to be open this time next year.

The Iain Mackenzie Medical Plaza, named for one of the first gastroenterologists in the area, will feature three buildings on 7.3 acres at the former site of the Internet service provider BlazeNet at 2050 S. Queen St. when completed.

Digestive Disease Center, which was founded by the now retired Mackenzie, will be one of the tenants of the new facility. Bruce Wallace, the CEO of Congero Development, a California-based development firm that specializes in health care facilities, said demolition of existing buildings is already under way.

Weather permitting, Wallace said the first building should be completed by November.

A roughly 8,100-square-foot medical office, part of the first building to be constructed, will be completed sometime in October.

Brookeside Surgical Arts at York, the Ambulatory Surgery Facility, which will be housed in the first building, will boast six state-of-the-art operating rooms with private recovery rooms in 16,500 square feet of space.

Brookeside was designed by the award-winning medical architecture firm Anthony C. Pings and Associates. Wallace said the building will feature the most modern surgical and infection control technologies.

According to Will McInturf, the director of operations with Congero, said the company is currently in talks with interested medical groups who could move into the complex.

"The other two buildings have not yet been leased," McInturf said.

Both buildings will be designed and constructed to meet specific needs of future tenants. Once they are found, the construction process will move forward.

McInturf said there is no schedule on when phase two and three of the facility will be built.

C.S. Davidson has been selected by Congero Development to provide structural engineering services for the new plaza. PIC: SUBMITTED This is a rendering of the Brookeside Surgical Arts at York, the Ambulatory Surgery Facility being built as part of the Iain Mackenzie Medical Plaza in York Township. The north elevation of the project is shown in this rendering.