A long-closed bank on North State Street in Concord is set to be torn down, replaced by a stand-alone urgent care facility owned by Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest owners of hospitals.
The Satander Bank building at 161 North State St., at the intersection of Penacook Street, has been mostly shut for years. Its owners, Cafua Realty Trust, have received a demolition permit and are in the process of tearing it down.
It will be replaced with an 11,500-square-foot “urgent care medical facility” operated by Manchester Health Care LLC, a subsidiary of HCA Healthcare in Nashville.
HCA Healthcare owns 190 hospitals in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, including Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, plus more than 2,400 “ambulatory sites of care” such as urgent-care and standalone emergency care facilities.
Among the latter is Nashua ER, a standalone emergency room operated by CMC hospital in Nashua that opened this year at the site of the former Leda Lanes bowling alley. As an emergency room rather than an urgent care facility, it offers more medical services, is open 24/7, and charges much higher fees.
The future of the 1.7-acre site was uncertain for a while because the city government wanted the owners to convey a right-of-way easement for a possible extension of the Langley Parkway. However, since the city council had canceled plans for that parkway extension years ago, the planning board removed the easement requirement a year ago.
