Pasadena urgent health care clinic update

Two city council meetings ago, city staff pressed the council on accepting on urgent health care site at a Del Mar Blvd property that the city owns. However, neighborhood opposition to the project stalled the council from moving forward- they asked staff to look at other options.

They found one. According to city mayor Bill Bogaard, there is a site at 40 N. Altadena Drive that the city is looking into- the city is also looking at several other options that were discussed at that council meeting.

However, Bogaard says that the Altadena site is one that the city's hospital and foundation partners approve of (they really want to locate the clinic in South-east Pasadena). He also added that the building's owners are very happy at that prospect of having a "credit-worthy" tenant, which the project would provide, and hence are dangling some very appealing financial numbers in front of the city.

Finally, Bogaard adds that the site could be easier to install medical equipment in than the Del Mar site. That would be a plus for the city, considering it is in a time crunch to get moving on the project to guarantee holding on to a $500,000 grant.

On a related note, a broker for an office building at Colorado and Kinneloa that Sid Tyler mentioned as a possible location called me early this week and said the city had not contacted him about the property yet. He said he was eager to begin talks about the project. They may have contacted him by now, for all I know.