Grace Hill Water Tower Health Center construction
Grace Hill breaks ground on new Water Tower Health Center
June 24, 2009
St. Louis City Alderman Freeman Bosley, Sr.; Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers Vice Presidents Dr. Yolette Brown and Veronica Richardson; Grace Hill Settlement House President/CEO Roderick Jones; Health Center board member Sandra Mahr; Health Center President/CEO Alan O. Freeman; Missouri State Senator Robin Wright-Jones; Health Center Board Chair Robert Jacobson; John Mueller with Arcturis; and Joe McKee with Paric Construction turn the dirt on the new Grace Hill Water Tower Health Center June 24, 2009. Photo by Gerald Sonnenberg
St. Louis City Ward 3 Alderman Freeman Bosley, Sr. addresses a crowd of more than 150 people during the groundbreaking of Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers’ new Water Tower Health Center, June 24. Photo by Gerald Sonnenberg
August 2009
The new Water Tower Health Center as of August 2009. Photo by Gerald Sonnenberg
September 2009
With the addition of I-beams framing the structure in September, Grace Hill’s new Water Tower Health Center was beginning to take shape. Photo by Gerald Sonnenberg
October 2009
By November, the I-beams framing the structure of Grace Hill’s new Water Tower Health Center were mostly covered by some walls and insulation.
November 2009
A layer of brick covered nearly all of the outside walls and insulation of the new Water Tower Health Center in November, and most windows were also in place.
A Paric construction worker lays brick along the outside wall facing Florissant.
In November, this was the view from the main entrance down the hallway leading to the main waiting area.
December 2009
It was getting a little more difficult to tell the photograph (above) from the architectural drawing by Arcturis (below) of the new Grace Hill Water Tower Health Center.
January 2010
Fortunately for the construction crews working on the new Grace Hill Water Tower Health Center in January, most of the ongoing work was being done inside the new facility during the severe cold and snow that welcomed 2010. The top photo shows the main entrance of the facility. The photo above shows the new 18,500 square-foot facility along Florissant street.
Tile is being measured, cut and laid on a hallway floor.
In this photo, a Paric construction worker applies caulk to the main doorway.
The photo (above) shows Paric construction workers applying “mud” to the drywall in the main hallway that looks out over Florissant Street on Jan. 12.
The photo (below) shows the same hallway on Feb. 22.
February 2010
The photo above shows the main hallway looking toward the front door.
March 2010
The nurses' station.
April 2010
One of the dental service areas.
The main hallway looking from the vantage point of the main entrance.
The completed facility.
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Construction on the new 18,500 square foot facility began June 24, 2009. The grand opening is April 30, 2010 at 2 p.m. The larger, state-of-the-art facility will provide added capacity for doctors, dentists and other clinicians. GHNHC anticipates increasing access to care by at least 30 percent.
The previous Grace Hill Water Tower facility was lost when fire raged through the Grand Plaza Shopping Center on April 16, 2009. (Click Here for Story) The structure was condemned by the City and was demolished. On June 22, the Water Tower staff and services began operating from the Grace Hill Hadley Health Center, a clinic site that will be open for service in the North City until the new Water Tower facility is constructed.
Two million dollars in funding for the project was provided through an appropriation by the Missouri State Legislature. The expenditure was endorsed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon during a press conference at Grace Hill on Feb. 13, 2009. The architectural firm Arcturis designed the new facility, and Paric Construction will be the general contractor.
A part of St. Louis for more than 100 years, Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers, Inc. (GHNHC) is a federally qualified health center and provides low-cost, primary and preventive health care at six locations to primarily low-income and uninsured residents in the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County. GHNHC is accredited through the Joint Commission.
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