Staff Reports
Richmond Times-Dispatch

Bon Secours said today it will build a $30 million ambulatory care campus at Watkins Centre in western Chesterfield County.

The nonprofit Catholic health system will build the center at the southwest corner of state Route 288 and Midlothian Turnpike, across from the Westchester Commons shopping center and about 4.5 miles from Bon Secours St. Francis Medial Center. It will create 100 new jobs.

The first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2011, said Kevin Barr, spokesman for Bon Secours.

It will consist of 100,000 square feet of space the includes a free-standing emergency department, a comprehensive diagnostic imaging center and a physician medical office building for primary care, obstetrics and gynecology and physician practices.

“We have had a very high level of interest from physician groups that want to be located there,” Barr said.

Plans for the second phase are still under development. It will include additional health care services and physician office space, Barr said.

“Bon Secours is always looking at development zones in the Richmond region and it chose to expand at this site because of the concentration of economic development activity there.”