New nursing home, expansion of assisted-living facility planned

GAINESVILLE - An expansion of a north Gainesville assisted-living home, which received the go-ahead for an expansion about a year ago, is on the agenda for the July 10 city planning board meeting.

Dogwood Forest, on Thompson Bridge Road, wants to add 114,000 square feet to the facility; a 75,000-square-foot addition was approved last year. The addition will add 96 units to the current 50-unit facility.

The new nursing home is planned on Limestone parkway near Windward Lane. Developers say the 22,000-square-foot, 55-bed complex would be used primarily for Alzheimer patients.

Also on the agenda: plans by Northeast Georgia Medical Center to relocate the Imaging Center into a three-story, 71,661-square-foot building to be built on 4.2 acres on Jesse Jewell Parkway near the current facility.

Planners will also be asked to consider two Special Use requests for group homes for recovering addicts which have been operating illegally, according to city officials, on Hillcrest Avenue and Riverside Terrace.

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