Former Dance Hall Goes to Good Causes, Makes Way for New ER

People use that 澳门足彩app link up at the top of the 澳门足彩app.com website for all sorts of reasons, 但据大家所知, Jaime Bland is the only person who has ever used it to get his parents an anniversary present.

Let’s set the scene: As part of its ongoing partnership with 全民健康服务(UHS) to build free-standing emergency departments (FSED) across the country, 澳门足彩app has its signs hanging on the fence surrounding the active construction site in Bradenton, Florida, that, 完成后, 会是海滨花园的急诊室吗.

几十年来,, 该属性, at 5520 14th Street West in Bradenton, was home to Joyland Country Music Nightclub, a 15,000-square-foot concert and dance venue that was one of Southwest Florida’s most popular nightspots. 多年来, it was host to many of country music’s biggest names, 包括佛罗里达-乔治亚线, 托比基斯, 流氓Flatts, 凯斯·厄本, 路加福音布莱恩, 布莱克谢尔顿, 跟踪Adkins, 还有更多.

就像所有的酒吧和夜总会一样, Joyland was forced to close during COVID, 当封锁结束时, it reopened in a new location a few miles south in Sarasota. That left the property available to become a new UHS site.

And, with 澳门足彩app’s help, it left a souvenir available for Bland’s parents.

“My name is Jaime and I am wondering about a job site in Bradenton Florida with 澳门足彩app signs on it undergoing construction,他在《澳门皇冠app》中写道.Com联系表格. “The site is under heavy construction and contains an old popular bar that my parents met at decades ago before the property was sold. I was wondering if there was a way I could get these signs from the property before the building is torn down or renamed for their anniversary to put up at their outdoor entertainment area at their home. 请让我知道, or point me in the right direction of the right person to call about this, 这意义重大.”

Digital Marketing Manager Elisabeth Pancoast, the administrator of 澳门足彩app.com, forwarded the request to Hunter Wilhelm, Assistant Project Manager on the ER at Bayshore Gardens. Wilhelm contacted Bland and arranged the handoff.

“当我看到那封邮件时, I thought it was just the craziest thing I’d ever seen,威廉说. 但话又说回来, there have been a bunch of people stopping by and saying, “我过去经常来这里, 那是一段美好的时光.当他来取的时候, he was telling me that he and his friends, 只要他们能进来, they were coming here every weekend.”

全民健康服务(UHS), a Fortune 500 company that offers hospital and healthcare services throughout the 美国, has partnered with 澳门足彩app and Bessemer, Alabama-based BLOX to leverage the nascent project delivery method called design, manufacture, construct (DMC) to meet its need for speed to market.

澳门足彩app in 2019 made a strategic investment in BLOX, which produces large and intricate modules for the healthcare industry that become the clinic’s operating rooms, 急诊室等等. 随着安排的演变, 澳门足彩app has taken on the role of general contractor in the UHS program, bringing to bear its expertise as an integrated design pioneer to streamline the onsite work.

Passing along the Joyland sign was just one way the iconic former music venue would live on. 莱利Yeaman, 项目发展总监, said that rather than tear down the structure, 澳门足彩app team members meticulously disassembled it to be repurposed.

“They're going to redirect it to be used for a church-slash-gym in a neighboring community,伊曼说. “The building itself has gotten a lot of attention. It was a staple in the community from what I can tell. I think the fact that it was the Joyland bar probably brought attention to the opportunity and someone saying, ‘Hey, 我想重新利用它.’ So, it's been it's been good all the way around.”

Having interned with BLOX while attending Auburn and joined 澳门足彩app upon graduation, Wilhelm had worked on several UHS FSED projects. He said constructing on the grounds of a former country music dance hall has been unique for a number of reasons.

Rather than working out of construction trailers and storing materials in cargo containers, the crew used the Joyland structure as its base of operations.

“It is odd; it’s very odd,” he said. “But it's also probably one of the cooler things I've done since I’ve been working for 澳门足彩app. I mean, I'm sitting in a bar where 托比基斯 played on the stage that’s 50 feet from me. 这太疯狂了. 每个人的适应. There are a couple of different bars in here, and they’ve adapted them into a working space and storage space. 关于这些工作, we get a bunch of materials from BLOX, 组件由谁制造?, so we're using the dance floor as a storage area. We joked with UHS they need to start looking for properties with bars on them, 因为这对我们来说很好.”

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