Mary Washington Healthcare Plans to Build Conference Center and New Medical Clinic, Expand Snowden House
Medical clinic will replace current Kids' Station building
by Adele Uphaus
MANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT
Mary Washington Healthcare is seeking approval to build a conference center and new medical clinic and construct an addition to Snowden House, a historic structure on the hospital campus that is used for “meetings, receptions, and fundraising activities,” according to the MWHC website.
The new 24,500-square-foot two-story medical clinic will replace the building that currently houses Kids’ Station, the daycare and preschool that currently provides subsidized care for MWHC employees. (Last month, the Advance covered the announcement that Kids’ Station would close in May and then that the facility would stay open at least through September.)
According to the narrative that accompanies the application, the conference center—which will be made up of three 13,200-square-foot floors—will “accommodate the additional education and training space needed for the Graduate Medical Education program initiated in 2023, office space for corporate services that will move from the old 2300 Fall Hill Avenue facility, and an expanded conference facility.”
The new medical clinic will “allow MWHC to ensure continued access to the clinical services needed by our growing community.”
Plans for Snowden House, which has housed the offices of the Mary Washington Hospital Foundation, call for “needed renovation and expansion, to facilitate increased stakeholder engagement with our medical staff, associates, and community members.”
According to the narrative, the proposed use for Snowden House is “residential.”
The addition looks to more than double the size of the existing house.
Per the narrative, “the subject parcels on the Mary Washington Hospital Campus are not subject to Real Estate Taxes.”
The application and development plan are available for the public to view at the City’s FTP server, will be discussed by the City’s technical review committee on March 14 and by the Planning Commission on April 10.
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Who will be living in the Snowden House? If it’s residential?
If MWHC does not want to pay real estate or corporate taxes, why not ask them to make annual donations to cover some of the costs that the city incurs? There is also the lost income from the lack of development on their site.