
{"id":1437,"date":"2007-12-13T07:24:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/12\/13\/doctors-ready-for-move\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T06:03:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T14:03:57","slug":"doctors-ready-for-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/12\/13\/doctors-ready-for-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors ready for move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/pc055353resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/pc055353resized.jpg\" height=\"195\" width=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Photo by Robert Dickson <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, the doctors from Carrboro Pediatrics and Internal Medicine have patiently waited to move into their new building as state contractors cleaned up potentially harmful chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>But the cleanup is now complete, and the doctors \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who have practiced at several locations throughout Carrboro over the past 15 years \u00e2\u20ac\u201c will move into their new offices in March or April of next year.<\/p>\n<p>The building at 127 Fidelity Street was home to dry-cleaning businesses \u00e2\u20ac\u201c most recently Hangers Cleaners \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for a number of years before Carrboro Pediatrics and Internal Medicine bought the building last fall. Because chemicals used in the dry-cleaning process are linked to some cancers, the doctors had the site tested before refurbishing the building and found contamination from perchloroethylene, a dry-cleaning solvent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We worried about the seriousness of it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Nick Sartor, one of the doctors with the practice. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to live in this building.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We were going to suffer from it if we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have it taken care of,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d added Cory Annis, another doctor with the practice.<\/p>\n<p>In August, contractors from the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dry-Cleaning Solvent Cleanup Act Program removed 240 tons of soil from the Fidelity Street site. Although the testing revealed contamination in only one small area, workers removed soil from a wide radius around the contamination.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sort of like removing cancer,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Annis said.<\/p>\n<p>Contractors also tested the area\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s groundwater and determined that the contamination hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spread off site. Once Carrboro Pediatrics and Internal Medicine moves in, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll monitor their wells to ensure the water isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t contaminated.<\/p>\n<p>Because the environmental clean-up process took nearly a year, the practice only just began construction on the building a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors had been looking for a new space for their offices for a while before deciding on the Fidelity Street building.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It needed to be in Carrboro,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sartor said, adding that they wanted their offices to be within walking distance of Weaver Street. The doctors also needed more space and more parking.<\/p>\n<p>At the Fidelity Street building, Carrboro Pediatrics and Internal Medicine has added a number of green, sustainable features to the building, including recirculation pumps, solar panels, energy-efficient windows and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to look like a new building when we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re done,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Annis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Robert Dickson By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Over the past year, the doctors from Carrboro Pediatrics and Internal Medicine have patiently waited to move into their new building as state contractors cleaned up potentially harmful chemicals. But the cleanup is now complete, and the doctors \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who have practiced at several locations throughout&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}