Bon Secours to begin new 90,000-square-foot medical center in Chesterfield this year

Bon Secours plans to kick off construction of a new medical office building, which would be home to a surgical center, next to St. Francis Medical Center later this year. (BizSense file photos)

A Bon Secours project that’s been in the works since before the pandemic is expected to break ground this year.

The health system anticipates it will start construction of a 90,000-square-foot medical office building at 13701 Bon Secours Drive next to its St. Francis Medical Center in the second quarter of 2025, spokeswoman Jenna Green said in an email.

An 11,000-square-foot outpatient surgical center operated by Bon Secours is expected to occupy a portion of the three-story building alongside other users.

Construction of the project is expected to be finished in late 2026. An opening date for the surgical center hasn’t been determined yet. Kjellstrom & Lee is the project’s general contractor. PSH+ was tapped to handle the project’s design.

The overall project cost hasn’t been set. Bon Secours said in a 2023 filing to the state that the surgical center was anticipated to cost $17.5 million.

The health system plans to relocate Bon Secours Medical Group practices currently at the St. Francis campus to the new office space, Green said, though those plans hadn’t been finalized as of last week.

A site plan of the proposed project to be built next to Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center.

The upcoming project has been on the drawing board for a few years. The health system first filed plans for an identical project in 2018, and has owned the undeveloped,  7.8-acre project site since 2006. It received the state’s approval to build the surgery center in late 2023 and earlier this month filed a fresh building permit for the development.

The new building would expand the St. Franics campus, which last year wrapped up a $108 million project that added a new wing and 55 more acute-care beds to the hospital near the Brandermill area of Chesterfield. Bon Secours more recently informed the state that it intends to seek regulatory approval to add another 40 beds to the facility.

Adjacent to the medical office project site, Virginia Physicians for Women is planning to open an 18,000-square-foot office.

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