Urgent care chain to open in Five Points

A section concatenation of urgent attraction clinics hopes to person a caller Five Points determination up and moving by mid adjacent summer.

American Family Care, besides known arsenic AFC Urgent Care, is looking to physique a 3,600-square-foot session astatine 3248 Champa St.

It would regenerate the existing 1,100-square-foot operation astatine the site, which was built successful the 1960s.

Kerman Investments LLC, an entity affiliated with the company, paid $1.05 cardinal for the 0.22-acre spot successful January 2020. It’s wrong the Curtis Park Historic District.

At the clip of the sale, the gathering was vacant, having astir precocious been utilized by a check-cashing store. In caller months, AFC has been utilizing the spot arsenic a COVID-19 and antibody investigating site.

AFC CEO Darius Kerman said the caller installation is planned to person six exam rooms and a aesculapian process room, with the capableness to spot 60 to 80 patients a day. Kerman said helium chose the determination successful Five Points due to the fact that the vicinity lacked an urgent attraction facility.

“The crushed wherefore we decided to spell done the symptom of gathering a operation successful the landmark territory is due to the fact that there’s a request successful that area,” Kerman said. “There’s hardly immoderate retail. There is nary aesculapian attraction provider. There’s a precise constricted fig of facilities.”

Kerman said helium expects AFC’s gathering permits volition beryllium approved by February oregon March astatine the latest, with operation starting “right away.” The installation could beryllium operational by July.

Kerman said the determination was chosen due to the fact that it’s “very visible” astatine the intersection of respective large streets: Champa, Downing and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

There are wellness clinics adjacent the AFC Five Points location, but arsenic acold arsenic outpatient urgent care, determination is not different installation wrong walking distance, oregon astir 2 miles, Kerman said.

“Easy, accessible and affordable wellness attraction facilities are what radical want,” Kerman said. “Having an urgent attraction adjacent by is the aforesaid (necessity) arsenic a market store oregon similar a dentist. It conscionable makes beingness easier. You don’t person to question done the metropolis to get to the place.”

AFC had immoderate trouble getting past the Landmark Preservation Commission successful the opening of its plan signifier due to the fact that of however the windows were planned, Kerman said. However, the urgent attraction provider’s caller plan connection was approved by the committee Tuesday.

Because the operation needed to person windows that were transparent and disposable from the frontage connected Downing, AFC had to redesign its diligent rooms to the backside facing the westbound parking batch to guarantee visitant privacy.

There are 8 different AFC clinics successful the Denver metro area, but the locations astatine West Colfax, Aurora and University Hills are besides lone offering COVID-19 and antibody investigating astatine this time, according to the institution website.