Across from the Daybreak Market & Fuel gas station project, on the southwest corner of S.R. 56 and Hueland Pond Blvd. (north of Sand Dune Rd.), next to Beach House Assisted Living & Memory Care, is a two-story, 56,559- sq.-ft. medical office building being constructed by Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS). This building will add yet another medical specialty space to Wesley Chapel, and specifically to the Wiregrass Ranch development.
This project has been a few years in the making. The meeting with the county for this site first took place in 2021, with permits being started in 2022 and an official ground breaking with the North Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce (NTBC) in September of that year.
But now, this 6.13-acre site, which appraised at more than $2 million, is looking well under way (see photo above), with most of the vertical exterior walls in place and the site fully buzzing with construction crews. And, based on the story we ran in early Oct. 2022, FCS plans to occupy 45,000 sq. ft. of the two-story building, which will make it larger than the 28,000 sq. ft. of space dedicated to the Moffitt Cancer Center at AdventHealth Wesley Chapel, which opened in May 2021. The remaining space in the Medical Center at Wiregrass Ranch is for lease.
FCS originally came to Wesley Chapel in 2019 — to a small building in the Cypress Glen Professional Park (off Cypress Ridge Blvd., north of S.R. 56) — where the group quickly earned a good reputation from its patients for the staff’s compassion and respect.
Florida Cancer Specialists isn’t new to the game either, as the company has been operating for 40 years and has 100+ locations.
According to its website, FLCancer.org, “Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute has a national reputation for excellence in oncology, hematology and cancer research. With over 250 physicians and nearly 100 locations, we are committed to providing Wesley Chapel and (the nearby area) with world-class cancer care close to home.”
The website also says that, the new building, “will include 27 patient exam rooms, 69 infusion treatment chairs, as well as an on-site laboratory, pharmacy, PET/ CT imaging and radiation oncology services. Patients will also have opportunities to participate in clinical trials research as well as care management services.”
Although we did not receive confirmation of all of this information in time for this article, the FCS website also states that, “Board-certified medical oncologists Ayman Barakat, MD, Uday Dandamundi, MD, Eva Gupta, MD, Richard McDonough, MD, Shilen Patel, MD, and Ramya Pinnamaneni, MD, will provide care to patients at the new Wesley Chapel clinic.”
At our press time, we did not know the expected opening date of the building, but we believe it will be sometime later this year.
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