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GEISINGER EXPANDING TO DOWNTOWN DANVILLE

GEISINGER EXPANDING TO DOWNTOWN DANVILLE - Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 5:09PM EST

Reported by: Lorena Beniquez
Thursday, Sep 13, 2007 @05:09pm EST


DANVILLE, MONTOUR COUNTY - Geisinger will soon give Danville's downtown economy a booster shot. Hospital officials are preparing to build a 4.4 million dollar office building on Mill Street. "Our plan is to relocate one hundred administrative support personnel to this site and this will be in about a year and a half, the Spring of 2009," said Geisinger’s Robert Davies. The Greater Susquehanna Chamber of Commerce completed a study that reveals those 100 people will have a five million dollar impact on the downtown. Davies added, "They are going to be part of the economic fabric of downtown. They'll eat lunch here. During breaks they'll go to local businesses and we think it'll be a very important impetus to the economic vitality of downtown." BJ's Rib and Steak house is located right next to the building site. “It'll increase our lunch and the crowd definitely. We'll be a lot busier at lunch, not that we aren't now, but definitely our whole staff across the boards is definitely excited for them to move in,” said Jeremy Fritz who works at the restaurant. And just across the street from the proposed office is Collectables Unlimited. Owner Jim Hill said, "Quite frankly, it's going to bring people into the area and we already get an awful lot of people from Geisinger coming down that might be there to wait for treatment or what have you." Davies tells WBRE News the new building will be designed to fit in with the surrounding 1800's structures and will be 25,000 square feet.
 


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