The health system is making fresh moves toward an expansion of its St. Francis Medical Center campus that has been on the drawing board for several years.
Bon Secours seeking state approval to build surgery center next to Midlothian hospital
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Surgery provider MedRVA gets state approval for new $15M center in Chesterfield
The center will occupy 18,000 square feet in the Ironbridge Commons building and feature a general-purpose operating room and a specialty operating room dedicated to eye surgery.
VCU Health OK’d to demolish city-owned Public Safety Building
The authorization from City Council comes as the health system was due to make a $1.3 million payment to Richmond in lieu of taxes on the site – the latest cost to the health system for its expensive exit from a downtown development project.
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“One day you wake up and want to do something different,” Leigh Sewell said. “It seemed like a good time to make a change. I told my husband about it and he was like, ‘You mean in 10 years?’ and I was like ‘No, like in one year.’”
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VCU Health continues to pay for downtown development exit
While the health system remains on the hook for Richmond real estate tax payments that continue to come due, it’s unclear whether a new university-led project for the same site would align with the city’s desire to keep the downtown property taxable.
Thalhimer takes reins of final piece of Westhampton Commons with Bon Secours-anchored mixed-use building
A five-story, 103,000-square-foot building fronting Libbie Avenue will feature office space, to be mostly occupied by Bon Secours, as well as apartments. It would be the final phase of an overall reinvention of the Westhampton School that took many turns over the past decade.
Bon Secours opening new urgent care center in Midlothian as part of expansion
The Midlothian clinic is planned to be the first of five urgent care facilities to be opened by Bon Secours in the region this year.