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Tuesday, July 28, 1998
Veterans home plans forwarded
Donrey Capital Bureau
CARSON CITY -- Construction plans for a 180-bed skilled nursing home for veterans proposed for Boulder City were forwarded Monday to Washington, D.C., for preliminary approval by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The agency is expected to return the plans within the next 30 days with comments and recommendations.
"If our plans are approved by the VA, we will be on our way to breaking ground this coming December," said Charles Abbott, executive director of the Nevada Commission for Veterans Affairs.
The veterans home, the first in Nevada, will be a single-story facility with a 24-bed special needs unit, a chapel, recreation room, barber-beauty shop, physical therapy room, dental facility, library, gift shop and pharmacy.
Abbott said three principles have guided the design.
"We want to make the building look like a home and not an institution, we need to make it economical to operate and we need it to be designed so that it can adapt to the future needs of our veterans," he said.
The principal architect for the home is Harry Campbell and Associates, a Las Vegas firm with 25 years in the valley. The firm of Anshen & Allen has been working on the home design. Officials looked at veterans homes in Missouri, Arizona, California, Oregon and Idaho to help guide in the design of Nevada's home, Abbott said.
The 40-acre site north of U.S. Highway 93 offered by Boulder City officials was selected for the home by lawmakers last month after the first choice near Nellis Air Force Base was found unsuitable. State officials are trying to finish the project by a Sept. 30 deadline to be assured of federal funding this year.
The total cost of the project is $19.4 million, with $12.6 million expected from the federal government. The Legislature last year obligated $6.8 million in state money to build the home.
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