The newly elevated front parking lot of Salem Township Hospital has reopened. Hospital President Alex Nazarian says there is still some work to be completed, but the parking lot is now ready for use.
“We need to do the landscaping number one. The second are some minor decorative items. There is going to be a limestone cap on top of the retaining wall and a railing for safety. Those are on order and we don’t have an ETA for when they will arrive. And also the stairs that go down to the lower level parking lot, we are waiting for the equipment for the ice melting system to arrive. Once it arrives it gets embedded in the concrete.”
Nazarian says the area of the parking lot closest to the A wing will not be immediately available due to the ongoing renovation of A wing into a medical office facility.
The cost of the new parking lot will be around $1.5-million.
The new parking facility provides parking at the same level as the front entrance and A wing so patients do not have to climb steps.
Four spaces at the front of the new lot have been marked specifically for members of the hospital auxiliary to use because of the service they provide to the hospital and community.
Nazarian says a small leftover area along Richter Drive just below the newly raised parking lot will be turned into an outside picnic area.
A view of the new parking lot from street level below. The shaded area will be steps leading to the upstairs parking lot.
