After months of looking out, CrossWinds Counseling & Wellness has discovered a everlasting dwelling within the former Chi Omega home.
The psychological well being middle is buying the previous sorority home situated at 1519 Service provider St. The property was listed for $750,000 in June. On Tuesday, the Emporia Lyon County Planning and Zoning authorized a conditional use allow for the property.
CrossWinds CEO Amanda Cunningham just lately instructed The Gazette that the acquisition will improve the middle’s area by roughly 6,000-square ft from the present location at 1000 Lincoln St. That constructing is leased from Newman Regional Well being.
“We presently function out of 5 buildings and we’ve been in search of months for a few various things,” she mentioned. “One factor we have been hoping to seek out was a location that we might consolidate.”
Cunningham mentioned the lease on 1000 Lincoln St. is up in 2024 and the company started to really feel a way of urgency over discovering a workable location. That’s after they went to have a look at the Chi Omega dwelling. A more moderen constructing — the home was in-built 2001 — was inexpensive than new building could be, Cunningham mentioned.
“It’s lovely; it’s bigger than what we have now,” she mentioned. “It’s optimum in that the bedrooms could be created into places of work and so they have home windows. We love the placement.”
Whereas there may be loads of visibility proper off of Service provider Avenue, shopper entry shall be situated within the rear of the constructing. Cunningham mentioned it’s a quiet space and helps to keep up particular person confidentiality.
“It should permit them to really feel like they’re not out in entrance of everyone,” she mentioned. “Now we have an ideal relationship with ESU and we’re excited to be nearer to them. It’s a detrimental that it takes us farther away from Newman Regional Well being however we do get nearer to the [Flint Hills Community Health Center], who we additionally accomplice with very intently.”
A transfer is not going to occur immediately; Cunningham mentioned it’s going to seemingly take round 9 months for the psychological well being middle to finish renovations and transforming. And, they’re nonetheless trying to find a second constructing to additional consolidate operations.
Nonetheless, now CrossWinds has the safety of figuring out the place it’s going after the lease with NRH is up.
“This provides permanency to CrossWinds as a result of by proudly owning your personal constructing location, you don’t have to fret about these wants in a while,” Cunningham mentioned. “It’s going to be a very good alternative. Now we have a very nice constructing right here and we needed to ensure we nonetheless felt good wherever we went for all of our buildings.”