Construction on a $42 million, 130,000-square-foot hospital in Rice Lake will begin May 27 with a groundbreaking. Lakeview Medical Center and city officials reached an agreement last week regarding payments to the city in lieu of taxes, the last major hurdle for the project. Lisa Laatsch of Lakeview Medical Center’s community relations department said construction on the two-story building would create 106 jobs and would be ready to open in November or December of 2010.
“There is a lot of excitement about the new building,” Laatsch said. The hospital will be built adjacent to Marshfield Clinic, which opened a $43.5 million, 142,500-square-foot facility at the intersection of U.S. 53 and Highway 48 in April 2008.
