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ATTACHMENT D Veterans Affairs Clinic – project description GENERAL BACKGROUND The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is planning to locate an expanded clinic in leased space in the Eugene area. Downtown Eugene may be an ideal area for the clinic because of its central location and proximity to Lane Transit District’s Eugene Station and the Greyhound Station. PeaceHealth is poised to submit a proposal for the use of their clinic property th at 12 and Willamette. The building is large enough to accommodate the size desired by the VA (an estimated 110,000 - 120,000 square feet). The site also has adequate on-site parking. JOBS/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ImpactDescriptionTotal Temporary Construction Jobs related to construction project cost, business purchases related to 148 Related Jobsconstruction, and employee purchases Permanent JobsJobs relocated to downtown & newly created57-100 Better health services for area residents and influx of businesses and Indirect Economic Impactsservices related to the clinic's relocation to downtown (jobs from VA 33 permanent job purchases) 1 Temporary Construction Related Jobs: Retrofitting the downtown PeaceHealth medical clinic into a modern VA Clinic will result in temporary construction jobs. The estimated construction costs associated with the VA Clinic project are estimated to be as much as $12 million. The private investment in this project will result in 120 temporary construction jobs that would last approximately one year and 28 jobs related to indirect business purchases. Permanent Jobs: According to the US Census Bureau’s North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), a clinic like the proposed VA Clinic project has the potential to create as many as 2 370 jobs. The existing VA Clinic has 57 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees on staff. The new facility is expected to approximately double the current staff size when it opens in 2012, with an 1 Temporary construction jobs were calculated based on the estimated costs of construction. Staff applied the U.S. Department of Energy standard: for every $92,000 invested in a project one temporary construction job will be created. Staff provided the estimated construction costs to the Oregon Employment Department to calculate the number of temporary construction jobs that would be created by “new” money flowing into the local economy. 2 Employment density of up to one permanent employee for every 400 square feet, with an estimated 148,000 in total square feet (western section 72,000 sq. ft.; eastern section 69,000 sq. ft.; annex building 7,000 sq. ft.), at full-use the VA Clinic project would result in as many as 370 jobs.