Hubbard Assisted Living Center on Track for 2014
HUBBARD, Ohio -- Work is proceeding on pace for a new assisted living center, Countryside at the Elmwood, to open here in 2014. Work began in May on the first phase of construction.
“We just started to put the roof on. The trusses went up this week,” said Tim Huber, vice president and one of five owners of JCTH Holdings. “It’s starting to look like a building now. We fully expect in the next six weeks to be under cover so we’ll be able to go into the winter months and finish the project.”
JCTH, based in Calcutta, also owns and operates Calcutta Health Care Center in Hubbard, Caprice Health Care Center in North Lima, Campus Health Care Center in Liberty and Cedarcreek Health Care Center in Warren.
The company has been working on the Hubbard project for 2 ½ years and the owners of the property and partners in the project, Jeff and Steve Melnick, looked into it prior to then, Huber said.
“The Melnicks hired the first marketing firm to do a market study to see what the need was in the area,” said Joe Cilone, president of JCTC and another owner. Two years later, because local market conditions had changed, JCTH commissioned a second market study, using a firm from Columbus. That study reported favorable results as well.
“Things are going as scheduled,” Huber said. The first phase of the project, a 42-bed assisted, 35,000-square-foot assisted living center on a 10-acre site and budgeted at $4.5 million, is slated to open in January. The second phase, which would add up to 40,000 square feet and 50 skilled nursing beds on another five acres, is expected to cost $4 million with construction getting underway in March or April. JCTH is going through the credentialing process on that phase now, Huber reported.
“This is an exciting time for Hubbard. We have over 100 people who will be employed here in the town,” Huber said. “We have worked very closely with the city officials to do all the requirements that we needed to do for the land,” including road improvements and new sewers. “The whole development is just going to be a real upswing for the area.”
“There’s nothing else like it in Hubbard,” Cilone added.
Additionally, the project is designed for assisted living capacity to expand to 60 beds, the eventual goal.
“This is what we do. We run long-term care, skilled nursing facilities. We specialize in rehab,” Cilone said. “It’s the business we’re in, it’s what we live for and I think we’re very good at what we do. We’re going to be an asset to the city of Hubbard by bringing our company here.”
Copyright 2013 The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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