The five-deck parking garage at Kadlec Regional Medical Center on the corner of Swift and Goethals in Richland is scheduled to open Aug. 1. Construction of the project began last summer. The garage has 660 parking spaces including two universal electric vehicle stalls, and infrastructure for future expansion of 12 additional universal stalls and two Tesla Supercharger stalls.

Parking at the hospital has long been inadequate for the demand of the services by the community. The garage will meet the current needs of the community utilizing medical services at Kadlec, and was built for anticipated growth at the medical center—four floors being built out on the River Pavilion Tower—as well as the needs of a future medical office building on the campus.

The new parking garage was designed to include a retail center on the ground floor facing Swift Boulevard. The timeline for the retail space is undetermined. There will be no fee for patients and visitors to park in the garage.

Andrew Martonick, based out of Kadlec Regional Medical Center, is the overall construction project manager. Bouten Construction of Spokane is the general contractor; Ryan Brown is Bouten’s project manager for the parking garage.

Kadlec Regional Medical Center, founded in 1944, is a not-for-profit health system. The $15.2 million parking garage project was made possible by Kadlec’s recent affiliation with Providence Health and Services.