King Street construction underway for new medical office building
A new medical office building is coming to King Street in the Riverside community.
Construction has already begun at 1232 King Street, where crews are working on a reconfigured surface parking lot for the existing building on the lot, which is being converted into what is expected to be a non-surgical obstetrics and gynecology center, according to Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) Executive Director Shannon Blankinship.
An agenda from a recent King Street [Medical Office Building] Neighbor Meeting provided details of the project to residents living in nearby homes, who have been and will continue to be impacted by the construction until the project is completed.
According to the agenda, the incoming tenant is Women’s Care Florida and the building will be a 25,000-square-foot medical office building featuring a complete interior renovation, the installation of a new elevator and its accompanying required structure, exterior enhancements “mostly along King St. elevation” and a new parking lot.
The new parking lot will include landscaping, drainage, pavers and lighting.
In a telephone interview, Blankinship explained that RAP’s primary concerns were regarding the plans for the new parking lot as the medical office building is retrofitting an existing building rather than starting from scratch with a new build in a historic district. While many parking lots in Riverside Avondale had already existed before the overlay was in place, there are certain design elements that must be considered for this new, reconfigured lot to meet the requirements of a parking lot within a historic district.
“It will be, I think, an enhanced parking lot,” Blankinship said. “I do think the updates and the design elements they’re adding to it as well as incorporating more shade areas and more trees is gonna be a net benefit but it did require taking some of those things out in order to come into compliance with more recent codes regarding shade and storm water.”
The medical building will be in what once was the SouthState Bank branch; a newly-completed, smaller branch now sits on the corner lot at 1210 King Street. Blankinship said the plans for the new medical office building have been in the works for several years now, but had to wait until construction was completed for the new bank.
“The bank formerly owned all of it,” she said. “But the bank, they predicated the sale of the property to them being able to build a smaller branch there onsite and actually be working and functioning in that location before work could begin on the remainder of the site through the new owner.”
County records reflect the sale of 1232 King Street to AP Riverside, LLC in December 2021 for $2.8 million.
Kasper Architects + Assoc. is the architectural firm on the project. The contractor is Smith McKee Construction.
According to plans filed with the city, the owner and project developer is Bill Long of AP Riverside, LLC with JMJ Group, LLC as the engineer.
According to the neighbor meeting agenda, the estimated completion date for this project is this December.
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