$50M VA Clinic Breaks Ground

FORT WORTH-In an early salute to Veterans Day, BremnerDuke Healthcare Real Estate today broke ground on a $50-million clinic for the US Department of Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System. The 239,256-sf regional facility is penciled for completion in January 2011.

Preliminary site work started recently on the 24-acre tract at 2031 SE Loop 820, an Interstate 20-fronting piece of land at the intersection with Campus Drive. Foundations and utilities will go in by year’s end, with vertical work to be under way by late spring.

Today’s groundbreaking agenda featured Dennis Brink, administrator of the VA’s Fort Worth outpatient clinic; Joseph Dalpiaz, director of the VA’s North Texas healthcare system; and Jim Bremner, president of Indianapolis-based BremnerDuke. Also attending the commemorative start was Kathleen Hicks, mayor pro tem of Fort Worth, and state and local congressional leaders.