The Arkansas Heart Hospital of Little Rock is planning to build a new hospital and medical complex in Bryant, according to documents submitted to the Bryant City Development Review Committee.
“It is our intent to introduce a new project that will bring economic development and growth to Saline County,” Drew Jackson, Arkansas Heart Hospital’s president and chief operating officer, said in a statement last week. “As we continue to develop plans we appreciate the continued support of the community.”
The hospital said more details would be released later this year, and a spokeswoman declined to comment further.
The plans submitted to the review committee and listed in its May 17 agenda show the Heart Hospital proposes two buildings on a nearly 14 acre site, just off of Interstate 30 and near the Arkansas Bone and Joint Orthopedic Surgery at 2010 Active Way in Benton.
The name of the development is the Saline County Hospital and its owner is the Arkansas Heart Hospital, according to the filings.
One of the proposed buildings at the site will be four stories and 95,485 SF and the other structure will be two stories and 28,000 SF, according to the documents filed with the committee.
Wittenberg Delony & Davidson Architects of Little Rock is the architect on the project and the engineer is Bond Consulting Engineers Inc. of Jacksonville.
Bryant Assistant Planning Director Truett Smith was unavailable for comment Thursday. He told The Saline Courier that the project still has to be approved by the the city’s Planning Commission.
“We’re still working through that (approval), but we’re headed in a good direction,” Smith told the paper.
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