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Opelika council hears plan to convert old chamber into pediatric clinic as city entertains sale
Summary
A local pediatrician presented plans to convert the long-vacant chamber building into a multidisciplinary pediatric clinic; staff disclosed an appraisal of $600,000 and a $400,000 purchase offer as the council introduced an ordinance to declare the property surplus for conveyance (first reading).
Katie Walter, a pediatrician who owns local downtown businesses, told the Opelika City Council on March 3 that she wants to convert the city's long-vacant former chamber building into a multidisciplinary pediatric clinic. Walter said the clinic would provide general pediatric care, obesity treatment, lactation consultation and behavioral-health and dietetics services, and that she intends to serve patients on a sliding scale and accept Medicaid and private insurance.
"I drive past the building probably twice a day," Walter said,…
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