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Valley Medical expanding clinic in the Highlands BY DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
Valley Medical Center is expanding its Highlands Clinic on Duvall Avenue Northeast to accommodate the growing demand for medical care. The target date for opening the expanded clinic space is April 1. The project also will include improved parking. “The purpose of expanding the Highlands Clinic is to meet the increasing patient access needs of the area,” said Valley spokesman Kelley Balcomb-Bartok. “This is due both to a growing population and to a growing number of patients eligible for Medicaid who are now seeking primary-care services,” he said. Valley Medical Center is anticipating that its service area will grow by about 21,000 residents within the next five years, Dr. Bob Thompson, Valley’s vice president of physician relations, told hospital trustees at a recent board meeting. [ more VALLEY page 4 ]
The high school football season got off to a running start this past weekend as Renton hosted Washington at Renton Memorial Stadium. This week, Lindbergh plays at the stadium on Thursday night and Hazen hosts its home opener on Friday. See page 10 for results from last weekend’s games. BRIAN BECKLEY, Renton Reporter
PACCAR building new distribution center on North Renton site Work is finally under way on a long-planned project to build a new PACCAR parts-distribution center in the North Renton neighborhood. The site, located at Fourth Street North and Garden Avenue North, is approximately 25 acres in size and will house a new 169,147-square-foot building when completed, according to the city. As part of the project, an existing 28,500-square-foot building previously located on the site was demolished. The site is also a Superfund site, contaminated with heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic
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hydrocarbons (PAHs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), from waste dumping prior to 1964. Clean-up and remediation was completed in 1996, according to state documents, but long-term groundwater monitoring is ongoing. From the city standpoint, the only mitigation placed on the site is the retention of mature trees around the perimeter of the site on the inside of the fence along North Fourth Street and Garden Avenue North. According to the city permit, the project is valued at $11,013,900. Permits have been issued and a timeframe for completion is unknown. [ more PACCAR page 4 ]
PACCAR is turning a 25-acre site in North Renton into a new parts-distribution center.
DEAN A.
RADFORD, Renton Reporter
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