A long-closed bank on North State Street may become an urgent care facility that would be owned by Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest owners of hospitals.
The Satander Bank building at 161 North State Street, at the intersection of Penacook Street, has been shut for years, with only a drive-thru ATM still open. Its owners, Cafua Realty Trust, are proposing to tear it down and build an urgent care facility that would be owned by Manchester Health Care LLC, a subsidiary of HCA Healthcare in Nashville.
HCA Healthcare owns 190 hospitals in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, including Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, as well as more than 2,400 “ambulatory sites of care” including urgent-care facilities.
The company said through a spokesperson that it is evaluating the location to determine if it’s a good fit, but declined to share more information.
Cafua has requested approval of its plan at the Wednesday night meeting of the Concord Planning Board. Their application says that the bank building on the 1.7-acre plot would be torn down and replaced by a new urgent care clinic. If approved, this would be the fifth urgent-care site in the city.
A report for Concord planning staff supports the request, with the recommendation that the city have the owners convey a right-of-way easement along the north edge of the property for the possible completion of the long-discussed Langley Parkway. If the parkway extension were built, it would run from where the road currently ends behind Concord Hospital, crossing over Auburn Street and skirting the former Lincoln Financial property before intersecting North State Street next to the bank site.
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