Going-out-of-business sales may outnumber groundbreakings in the current economic climate, but not for the Pikes Peak region's largest physician practice.

Colorado Springs Health Partners is beginning construction on a new 32,500-square-foot, $9 million medical office in northern Colorado Springs. The Briargate clinic, at the southeast corner of Research Parkway and Chapel Hills Drive, will include almost two dozen doctors in the fields of family practice, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics. It will also have a radiology department and a laboratory.

The new office, at 2405 Research Parkway, is scheduled to open in late 2009. Primary care physicians at CSHP's north office, 5955 Lehman Drive, will move to the new location, said CSHP Chief Executive Officer Deborah Chandler. The north office will be converted to a specialty-services location for surgeons, a wellness program and research.

CSHP also owns land at Fillmore Street and Centennial Boulevard, which it plans to develop in the next few years, Chandler said. Which doctors and services will be at that location has not been decided.

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