A growing healthcare provider may be planning to build a new location inside a master-planned community in the city of Surprise, Arizona.
The Scottsdale-based Honor Health, which was created in 2014 as the result of a merger between two large Arizona healthcare organizations, is thinking about constructing a facility within the borders of the Asante planned community near 163rd Avenue and Asante Boulevard.
In so doing, Honor Health, which operates half a dozen hospitals in both Phoenix and Scottsdale, along with another seventy specialty and urgent care locations, would be catering to a residential base some 43 miles to the west of its corporate offices.
According to reports, Honor Health is considering a land purchase in a part of the Asante community called Asante Trails that is given over to commercial development. The 101-acre site will include office space, a hotel, and both retail and restaurant space.
Notes the Phoenix Business Journal: the Asante Trails section is envisioned as a “101-acre mixed-used property” that is expected to include a “proposed hospital campus and medical office buildings.”
Members of the Surprise City Council have signed off on the rezoning of the site in question, allowing for greater commercial development.
According to city documents, a trail network will make up a part of the site, with connection points planned to adjacent roadways, “and to the central amenity area.”
The larger Asante community could ultimately see the construction of up to 2,700 homes on what is currently nearly 850 acres of vacant land in the far West Valley.
Honor Health has been significantly expanding its footprint in southern Arizona. In April, the healthcare system announced plans to build a $170 million facility in Phoenix to be called the Deer Valley Medical Center.
Work on that three-phase project is expected to be completed sometime in 2025.
By Garry Boulard
