Calamar hosts construction kick-off for new medical campus for Apollo Healthcare

Calamar, Niagara County's largest developer and general contractor celebrates the construction commencement of the first building to be constructed in the new medical campus within The Woodlands Corporate Center East, a 120-acre mixed-used development. The medical campus represents a $50-75 million private investment. Construction is currently underway on a full-service renal center that will be owned and operated by Apollo Healthcare. Apollo Healthcare is an integrated healthcare company dedicated to improving the lives of people who live with kidney disorders. Apollo Healthcare is a trusted provider of life saving dialysis treatment with locations in Western & Central New York as well as Long Island. The construction of their new 8,000 s/f facility in The Woodlands Medical Campus will result in a renal care center to service this immediate area as well as all of Western New York and attract ancillary medical providers. "Calamar is pleased to unveil our plans for a medical campus and welcome such an outstanding and dedicated organization as Apollo Healthcare as our inaugural partner," said Calamar CEO Kenneth Franasiak. Benefits of the medical campus can be outlined as follows: * Multi-phase project continuing to create jobs * A $50-75 million capital investment over five years * Will add approximately 250-400,000 s/f of medical space * Grow and develop a level of care for medical services as well as provide hospital referral basis * Creating and retaining approximately 200 jobs with an annual payroll of $7 million * Provide desperately needed medical services to the underserved areas of Wheatfield, Pendleton, Tonawanda, North Tonawanda & Amherst * Become a catalyst for research and development as well as physician recruitment to Western New York. "We are very excited about the 'hub & spoke' affect this project can support," Franasiak said. "The necessity for a dialysis facility in this area is very prominent and will fulfill a critical need for this underserved community. We have an aging population that is living longer and our campus sits right off Shawnee Road, one of the fastest growing residential corridors as well as a bedroom community to Amherst."