Parkland Health announced last week that it will bring a new public health clinic to the Inland Port, to be located in the City of Wilmer.
The clinic’s size is expected to be roughly 10,000 square feet and will be located off Interstate 45, where open land and warehouses currently dot the landscape.
Offering not only primary health care, the new clinic will also provide pediatric care, a pharmacy, on-site lab services, and dental care to the area.
“This is an opportunity that will offer health services to not only my residents in Wilmer, but it will benefit the entire Inland Port,” said Wilmer Mayor Sheila Petta. “There are few health care options in the southern part of Dallas County, making this Parkland Health Care Clinic a much-needed addition to the area overall.”
The Parkland Health Care clinic will be part of a larger mixed-use development that longtime Prime 45 Development’s Mike Rader has been creating in the southeastern part of Dallas.
Rader said he could not be happier that it was finally coming to fruition.
Edmundo Castañeda, Parkland’s chief operating officer, who worked with Radar and the City of Wilmer, said, “When you look at the community, it is a health care desert.”
And, with the Inland Port area along I45 being one of the fastest-growing locations in Dallas County, with its strong industrial base home to more than 45,000 jobs, the clinic will certainly be an important answer to an ever-growing need.
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price also pointed out that due to the extreme business growth in the Inland Port, it will also lead to additional residential growth being able to benefit from the addition of the Parkland Health Care Clinic.
“Wilmer might be a small city,” Petta said, “but Parkland’s Health Care Clinic will be convenient and beneficial to everyone in the area.”
Construction is expected to cost roughly $11 million with a targeted completion date by May 2028.
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