Eye-care center buys land in Fort Collins for surgical building
FORT COLLINS — Eye Center of Northern Colorado last week closed on the purchase of 4.3 acres of land in the Harmony Technology Park in Fort Collins, where it has been planning for more than a year to build a medical and surgical eye-care center.
Eye Center of Northern Colorado PC paid $1.4 million to Harmony Technology Park LLC for the land at the southeast corner of Ziegler Road and Precision Drive, according to public records.
Revised plans show a 28,000-square-foot building that will house a surgery center and an eye clinic with improved access for patients to retina, glaucoma and cataract care.
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Initial plans submitted in March 2015 called for a 16,000- to 20,000-square-foot building, and in November the building size was increased to 27,000 square feet.
The Eye Center of Northern Colorado has a clinic at 1725 E. Prospect Road in Fort Collins, and two clinics in Loveland at 2551 13th St. and 6125 Sky Pond Drive at Centerra.
Routine eye care will remain at its current location on Prospect Road, and laser vision correction will still be performed at Centerra.
The new surgery center will have more operating and procedure rooms than the existing location.
The new center is projected to open in June 2017.
Once the new center is open, the Eye Center of Northern Colorado will have 13 ophthalmologists and five optometrists.
“We are adding providers and medical and surgical facilities to meet the rapidly increasing demand for treatment of the vision threatening eye diseases of a growing and aging population,” Carol Wittmer, practice administrator for the eye center, said in a prepared statement.
Harmony Technology Park is a 105-acre development in southeast Fort Collins previously part of the Hewlett-Packard campus and is approved for up to 1.3 million square feet of office. It is being developed by MAVD West LLC, the Colorado subsidiary of Michigan-based MAVDevelopment Co.
Josh Guernsey of Brinkman Partners listed the property, while Ryan Schaefer and Jake Hallauer brokered the deal on behalf of the eye center.
