Politics & Government
Wilson Approves New Urgent Care Center
Patient First will open new medical facility at 25th and Butler streets.
Wilson Borough Council cleared the way for a new “urgent care” medical center at the prominent intersection of 25th and Butler streets at its regular Monday night meeting.
Council members unanimously granted a needed land-use change to representatives for Virginia-based Patient First, a company that, according to its website, “operates 42 Neighborhood Medical Centers in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania and will soon have centers open in the Greater Philadelphia Area.”
Three mixed-use residential and commercial properties on the 0.75-acre site will be consolidated into a newly zoned medical office-use property occupying the southeast corner of the intersection, according to Patient First’s consultant, Matthew Chartrand of Bohler Engineering, who spoke before council.
The new 7,000-square-foot urgent care center will be open 365 days a year from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., he said.
“We’re going to try to get this thing started as soon as possible,” he added.
Responding to concerns of Councilman James McGowan, who said he had wanted to see something done to address the lack of sidewalks at the corner, Chartrand said, “We’ll bring a sidewalk all along the 25th Street frontage.”
The corner currently lacks sidewalks, and it presents an obstacle for people on foot trying to access the various shops along busy 25th Street.