Medical centre proposed for corner of Dougall and Norfolk
Windsor immigration lawyer Eddie Kadri has ambitious plans to turn five residential properties on Dougall Avenue into a “stateof-the-art” medical centre.
The Dougall Medical Health Centre would continue the transformation of the west side of Dougall near Norfolk Street from residential to commercial.
The proposal goes to the city’s planning, heritage and economic development standing committee on Monday.
“This is something I’ve been studying for a while and it will be unlike anything we have in Windsor,” Kadri said Wednesday.
The two-storey building at the northwest corner of Dougall and Norfolk would become a collaborative health centre with specialists all under one roof, he said, working on the treatment of advanced and progressive diseases like diabetes and hypertension. He said the building will be 25,000 to 30,000 square feet and will feature an eye-catching design, “because it’s on a main artery right into the city.”
He said if the project gets all the necessary approvals, he’d like to start construction later this year.
Karl Tanner, a planner at Dillon Consulting who is working on the project for Kadri, said there’s a big demand for medical space, as evidenced by the many buildings going up throughout the city. And Kadri is bullish on the Windsor market, he said.
“I’ve been doing this 20-something years and for the last eight to 10 years it has been very, very slow on the commercial side, and now we’ve seen an uptick in the last couple of years and certainly in the last 12 months,” Tanner said.
“And Eddie, he’s very anxious to get this built.”