Provo's Mountainlands to get bigger quarters

PROVO (Deseret News) — Plans for a Utah County Convention Center couldn't come at a better time for the Mountainlands Community Health Center.

County officials plan to tear down the health facility to make way for a convention center to be built on 200 West between Center Street and 100 North.

That's good news for Lori Wright, development director for the Mountainlands Community Health Center. The health center will be moving into the old Utah County health building, 589 S. State. After remodeling, the building will be almost double the size of the current community health center.

The $3.1 million remodeling of the old county health building began in August and is expected to be completed in March, said Utah County Commissioner Steve White.

The county had rejected plans to remodel the building about two years ago because it would have cost $4.6 million, White said. A 35 percent drop in construction costs and a lower-than-expected interest rate helped make building a county convention center and moving Mountainlands possible.

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