Medical building going up in Willakenzie area.Byline: Development Report by The Register-Guard NEW LOOK: A Eugene plastic surgeon plastic surgeon A surgeon specialized in reconstruction or cosmetic enhancement of various body regions, most commonly the face–nose, chin, and cheeks, breasts and buttocks; PSs remove fat deposits through liposuction; PSs reduce scarring or disfigurement is constructing a $2.4 million medical building off Willakenzie Road, next to the Wild Oats Natural Marketplace store. Dr. John Hunts said he'll move his practice from the Oregon Eye Associates building at 1550 Oak St. to the 12,975-square-foot Willakenzie center once it is completed. The general contractor A general contractor is an organization or individual that contracts with another organization or individual (the owner) for the construction of a building, road or any other execution of work or facility. , John Hyland Construction of Springfield, broke ground last week, and the building should be done by about next April, said Rob Braziel, project manager for Hyland. Until early 2001, Hunts was part of Oregon Eye Associates. Then, he split off into a separate firm and now figures that there is sufficient business to warrant a stand-alone medical center, said his office manager, Shelly Cooper. Demand is being driven in part by an aging population that wants to control wrinkles wrinkles See bells and whistles. and take care of its skin, Cooper said. Hunts' firm is formally known as the Aesthetic Surgical Arts and Skin Enhancement Centre. In March last year, Hunts bought the one-acre lot next to the Wild Oats building for $508,486, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a deed filed with Lane County. Aesthetic Surgical Arts currently has about nine employees and will add five to 10 more after the center opens, Cooper said. Hunts performs plastic surgery of the eyes and face. This includes Botox treatments, laser resurfacing laser resurfacing Cosmetic dermatology The use of CO2 lasers and, more recently, lower temperature erbium lasers, to bloodlessly eliminate wrinkles and sun damage by vaporizing the epidermis, stimulating the dermis to produce collagen and rejuvenate the , browlifts, and sculpting sculpting Cosmetic surgery The surgical reshaping of a tissue. See Deep tissue sculpting, Facial sculpting. and contouring of the upper eyelids eyelids, n.pl a moveable fold of thin skin over the eye. The orbicularis oculi muscle and the oculomotor nerve control the opening and closing of the eyelid. . The center will also feature a spa that does hair removal, treatment for spider veins, chemical peels and the like. All the surgeries and other treatments are elective, cosmetic procedures done on an outpatient basis. Hunts will occupy all but 2,500 square feet of the building, which he plans to rent out, Cooper said. AND ANOTHER NEW LOOK: The Barger Avenue area of west Eugene is growing so fast that Dr. Henry Quest has decided to move his dentistry dentistry, treatment and care of the teeth and associated oral structures. Dentistry is mainly concerned with tooth decay, disease of the supporting structures, such as the gums, and faulty positioning of the teeth. practice there. Quest is moving from space he leases at West 11th Avenue and Chambers Street Chambers Street is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, at south of the Old Town. The street is named after William Chambers of Glenormiston, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh who was the main proponent of the 1867 Edinburgh Improvement Act, which gave permission for the street's to a spot he has built off Barger Avenue, just east of Echo Hollow Road. Quest in 2000 bought the half-acre lot at 4120 Quest Drive for $238,341. (Quest said that because he was the first developer on the public street, the city let him name it.) Quest said he now is spending $725,000 putting up a 5,500-square-foot building. Quest Dental will occupy 2,900 square feet, and Quest said he'll lease out the rest. Opting to move his business to the Barger area was simple, he said. "That's where people live. All the time, my patients are saying, `Finally, you're moving close to me!' " he said. "The west side of Eugene is rapidly growing, so I thought I would take some risk and build a dental clinic where there are no other dental offices," he said. Quest said he has a staff of five and expects to expand that by two or three assistants, plus a dentist, after he moves into his new space. Quest said he's hoping to open later this week. The building was designed by Richard Barbis of Varvitsiotis Architecture. Gale Roberts Co. is the general contractor. Compiled by business editor Christian Wihtol. |
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