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The planned new building in the northwestern corner of the Gateway Center also will house the Dispensary of Hope and Community Helpers. Construction is projected to take nine months.
The more than 23,000 square-foot facility will provide 24 patient rooms for the clinic. The clinic's current site on South Church Street has 5,000 square feet and nine patient rooms.
The Gateway Commission, which is negotiating sale of land in the Gateway Center, July 12, 2005 recommended to the City Council donation of the land to the clinic. The council unanimously approved the donation July 14, 2005. This was the first land donation in the Gateway Center.
The Gateway Center, west of downtown Murfreesboro and east of the new Manson Pike interchange on I-24, will be the site of the new Middle Tennessee Medical Center and the new Murfreesboro Medical Clinic.
Officials of the Christy-Houston Foundation announced July 20, 2005 the $3.9 million grant for construction of the new facility. The Christy-Houston Foundation was created in 1986 with proceeds from the sale of Rutherford Hospital, now Middle Tennessee Medical Center.
Design of the new building still is under way. Mike Picklesimer of Murfreesboro is the architect for the project.