The land next to Jalapeno’s Restaurant on College Parkway in south Fort Myers has been cleared to make way for a new eye clinic.
The new Elmquist Eye Group building will be going up over the next 12 to 18 months.
“That corridor there has plenty of traffic going back and forth and easy access,” said Colleen Reynolds, the spokesperson for the Elmquist Eye Group.
The new 13,000 square feet of space will give the doctors a chance to serve more patients and offer a 1,000-square-foot eye glasses boutique.
“We are outgrowing our space and we’d like to grow into a small group practice,” said Kate Wagner, an eye doctor who recently joined the practice. “We have a lot of patients and we want to get more space.”
Although the doctors own 13,000 square feet, they will be offering 3,000 to anyone who needs a space.
“It’s close for their current patients to find them — it’s very centrally located and it’s a lot more office,” said Reynolds, adding that the space is being built by Mark Stevens of Stevens Construction. “They own the entire second floor of the building.”
Patients, said Wagner, will also get better services because the additional space will include special testing equipment.
“I think our goal is to provide high quality personalized care and that makes us still a family-oriented practice,” said Wagner, whose office sees about 50 patients a day. “That will set us apart from everyone else.”
Being set apart is also why the office will dedicate so much space to an optical store.
“We are doing more high-end products and that will give patients more options,” Wagner said.
The Elmquist Eye Group’s current office off New Brittany Boulevard will be closed after the new building is finished.
“They didn’t want to move too far away and this works out well for their patients,” Reynolds said.
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