Building teardown starts in Bullhook expansion

Some structures are being torn down off of Fifth Avenue in preparation for Bullhook Community Health Center to expand its facility and parking.

The clinic has been planning to expand for more than two years now, having cut down trees in the area just over a month ago.

This clearing will make way for an expanded facility, a parking garage for their mobile unit and new parking lots, an expansion the clinic's leadership has said has been a long time coming.

The first parking lot should be complete next year, with another coming in 2025, and their building expansion is expected to be complete within three years.

The new addition will create space for new provider rooms as well parking for the center which has seen much more rapid growth in the past few years than anticipated.

Representatives of Bullhook previously said that the expansion is intended to pave the way for more services the health center can provide to the local community and will allow them to work more efficiently.

Many of the properties being taken down have been long-uninhabitable due, in part, to excessive lead paint and asbestos, which is being abated, and were generally too run down and contaminated for rehabilitation to be practical.