Compass Health recently completed the second phase of its Everett campus redevelopment with the opening of the $71.5 million Marc Healing Center.
The 70,000-square-foot facility at 3322 Broadway is part of a three-phase project. The first two phases cost $97.5 million. There is no estimated price for Phase 3 yet.
The Marc Healing Center is home to several new programs, including expanded community services and adult intensive outpatient program. It also has an on-site pharmacy run by Genoa Healthcare.
Over the next few months, a 16-bed evaluation and treatment unit and a 16-bed crisis triage center will open, allowing for involuntary treatment of patients in crisis. The ribbon-cutting is scheduled for Sept. 17.
“We’re so excited to offer this alternative. It’s a resource to the community directly, but also to these first responders in a way that’s going to provide also more proper care in the proper care setting for the actual individual in crisis,” Compass Health President and CEO Tom Sebastian told the Business Journal earlier this month.
Compass Health had a $12 million capital campaign to help fund the construction of the Marc Healing Center. It also received funds from the city, county and state.
“Our vision is to help this community address some of the persistent, apparently intractable challenges around chronic homelessness, around community members experiencing behavioral health crises,” Sebastian said. “That is the whole foundation for the project.”
Phase 1, called Andy’s Place, broke ground before the pandemic. It’s five stories and 82 units of housing paired with facilities for treatment and support services for people with chronic behavioral health problems. It is located on the northwest corner of the current Compass Health Broadway Campus.
Phase 2 broke ground in 2023. The first two phases took seven years to complete.
“I think it’s the complexity of the project, and really the complexity of putting together those funding sources, having it all align and each of them is super complicated,” he said. “I can’t even tell you how complicated federal new market tax credits are.”
Phase 3 will be a 100,000-square-foot building for behavioral health services and a primary health care clinic. The space could include permanent supportive housing units and space for administrative offices.
Work for Phase 3 is in the pre-development phase, Sebastian said.
The development team for the healing center includes Lotus Development Partners as the development and construction manager, BNBuilders as the general contractor, and Ankrom Moisan Architects as the designer.
Compass Health is a health care provider with locations throughout Snohomish, Skagit, Island, San Juan and Whatcom counties. It serves about 12,000 community members a year with 650 people on staff.
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