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Special Report - Real Estate & Construction - November 26, 2009

VA starts work on addition to physical-therapy building

$1 million project to triple space at the hospital now devoted to rehabilitation

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

An addition to the physical-therapy building illustrated here on the Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus will include private rooms and a larger workout area.

An addition to the physical-therapy building illustrated here on the Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center campus will include private rooms and a larger workout area.
—Rendering courtesy of Architects West PA

The Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center says it has broken ground on a physical-therapy building addition that will triple the space the hospital currently has dedicated to physical therapy.

The addition will cost about $1 million to build and equip, says Matthew Allen, a VA spokesman here.

The project site is on Freedom Drive, inside the hospital campus, just north of the main hospital building, which is at 4185 N. Assembly in northwest Spokane.

The...

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