Provena, Dreyer plan Yorkville office building

Medical facility: 22,000 square feet on city's west side

YORKVILLE — Provena Mercy Center and Dreyer Medical Clinic are planning to open offices in a new medical building to be constructed in Yorkville.

Officials this week announced the partnership effort during the fourth annual meeting of the Yorkville Economic Development Corporation.

The project will be a joint effort involving Provena, Dreyer and Health Care Development Partners, a Chicago-based company that would develop and own the building.

The facility will be located on a 5-acre site on Route 34 near Sycamore Street on the city's west side.

"We do feel this is a great growth area for the citizens of Yorkville as well as the surrounding communities," said Nicholas Loise, vice president of physician integration and strategic planning of Provena Mercy Center.

The building, slated to open in fall, 2005, would include 22,000 square feet of office space.

Dreyer Clinic would occupy 6,500 square feet, while Provena Mercy would utilize 13,500 square feet of space in the building.

"We are looking at a number of different specialties and primary care physicians for the facility," Loise said. There already is a "high level of interest" in the location from a number of physicians, he said.

This will be the first facility of its kind for Provena Mercy in Kendall County.

Dreyer has had an office on Hillcrest Drive in Yorkville since 1995. Those offices would move when the new building opens.

"It will more than double our amount of space," said Nancy Hopp, marketing director for Dreyer.

Dreyer has collaborated on projects with both Provena Mercy Center and Rush-Copley Medical Center in the past, Hopp said.

Dreyer and Provena Mercy have worked on partnership efforts before, including an ambulatory surgery center at the Highland Avenue campus in Aurora.