Springs Health Centre is Shaping Up, Developer Says
Kentucky 54 Complex to House Medical Facilities, Restaurant
By Lydia Carrico
Messenger-Inquirer
One building is full, another is nearly complete, and construction on another has just begun. But when all is finished, The Springs Health Centre on Kentucky 54 will be a medical complex of eight buildings housing a lab, endoscopy and imaging services, doctors’ offices, a restaurant and a bank.
“I’ve traveled quite a bit looking at different office parks and designs, and I haven’t seen a more beautiful layout and design,” said developer Malcolm Bryant. “Owensboro has something they should be proud of. It will be a regional draw.”
The first occupants to settle onto the campus were Owensboro Pediatrics, Owensboro Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, Olympic Therapy, Hamilton’s Pharmacy, Lincoln Laboratory and several other doctor’s offices. They began moving in in January, into the first 50,000-square-foot building completed.
Most leased the space for 10 to 15 years, Bryant said.
The next building to be completed soon will house a restaurant and a bank.
George Skiadas, who owns Famous Bistro in downtown Owensboro, has partnered with his brother-in-law, Niko Nousiadis, to open Niko’s, an Italian restaurant that will cater to the lunch crowd in that area.
“I’ve been trying for a long time to get a location out on 54,” Skiadas said. “It’s a growing area.”
The restaurant will be in the 6,000-square-foot building that is nearly complete. A bank, which Bryant would not name, will also be in that building.
“It will be a band with drive-through windows,” he said. “It’s an existing bank already in Owensboro.”
The lunch menu at the restaurant will be similar to the one at Famous Bistro, with soups, salads and sandwiches. But Skiadas will add a new item, Zapata, a specialty sandwich available in Europe, he said.
The dinner menu will be “strictly Italian he added, and will include homemade pasta. He also plans to serve beer and wine.
Typical lunches will cost $5. Dinners will cost about $13.
A third building that is nearly under roof will be ready for occupants next summer, Bryant said. It also is 50,000 square-feet.
“It’s 50 percent spoken for,” he said.
Lincoln Lab and Dr. Charles Riccio, a gastroenterologist, will relocate from the first building that went up into a larger space in the third building.
“That’s all I can tell you right now,” Bryant said Tuesday.
A fourth building has been staked off and will be 28,000-square-feet. Physicians Affiliated Care will relocate in that building and will open an endoscopy suite.
No one with the doctor’s group returned telephone calls.
Radiology & Diagnostic Imaging will move into a fifth building that will be 28,000-square-feet. Construction on it, however has not begun. It will occupy a space along with a conference center and a fitness center, Bryant said.
The conference center will seat 200 and will have audio, visual and Internet capabilities. The fitness center will be open to the public and will be equipped with showers, lockers and traditional exercise equipment.
“We’re waiting on the large occupants to finish up their floor plans,” Bryant said. “As soon as that floor plan is done, which we hope will be in about 60 days, we’ll begin construction.
“That’s an exciting occupant,” Bryant said, referring to RDI. “They will bring a lot of service to the Springs.”
RDI, now located in the Cigar Factory Mall, provides X-rays, mammography, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, MRIs, CAT scan and screening services.
“The advantages to us is that we’ll be on ground level, so you won’t have the difficulty of going up the stairs,” radiologist Dr. Terry Tyler said. “We’ll be able to have windows and see patients coming in and go help them if needed. It’s just a nice place out there. I like the landscaping, and it’s easy to get to.”
The complex is three or four minutes from the front door of the Owensboro Mercy Health System.
