Bladenboro Health Booster

Organization:

Bladen's Bloomin' Agri-Industrial, Inc.

Amount:

$200,000.00

Program Area:

Open Grants Program

County of Applicant:

Bladen

Description:

This grant provides funding to Bladen’s Bloomin’ Agri-Industrial (BBAI) to help renovate an 8,000 square foot former Dollar General building in downtown Bladenboro into a multi-tenant healthcare services facility. Flooding from Hurricane Matthew resulted in the loss of the town’s primary care facility and its only eye doctor. A local pharmacy was also displaced and is temporarily located in a former bank building that is too small to meet its needs. The renovated structure would potentially house the pharmacy, saving ten jobs, and a new optometry practice that would create five new jobs, with space remaining for a third tenant.

Contact:

Mr. John C. Heustess 218-A Aviation Parkway Elizabethtown, North Carolina 28337 (910) 645-2292

Areas Served:

Bladen