Dart plans to build and open a new health and wellness centre in Camana Bay by 2026.
The company, which announced the plans at last week’s Cayman Islands Healthcare Conference, says it intends to construct a three-storey, 60,000-square-foot, purpose-built structure on the south side of Camana Bay, near the Health City medical campus, which broke ground last year.
A planning permission application is expected to be submitted to the Planning Department in the coming weeks, according to the company.
Dart’s vice president of leasing and business development, Kristy Rivers, who presented the plan at the conference, said, “We’ve paid acute attention to the demands of the local health and wellness community, as we thoughtfully reshape the landscape to expand offerings for the benefit of our resident and tourist populations and, for us, this was the obvious next step in catering to the needs of a blossoming community.”
She added, “Health and wellness has been a core feature of what we have been developing at Camana Bay over the years and the timing is right to help improve the accessibility of healthcare services by bringing a wide variety of experts together under one roof in a convenient location close to George Town and Seven Mile Beach.”
In a statement, Dart noted that the Centre for Health and Wellness would be “ideally situated” off the new Airport Connector Road and the Esterley Tibbetts Highway, within walking distance of the Camana Bay Town Centre, “providing unrivalled connectivity for healthcare professionals and their clients alike”.
As the new centre will be within walking distance of the new $100 million Health City hospital and its adjoining Gene Thompson Radiotherapy Centre, Dart says this will make Camana Bay a new medical hub in Cayman.
Gary Gibbs, executive vice president for development at Dart, said from inception, health and wellness has been integral to the design of Camana Bay.
“We have developed the town centre and its buildings to capture prevailing winds and shade from mature trees to the New Urbanism planning, which provides a walkable environment,” he said in the statement. “Our team’s commitment to incorporating the highest levels of sustainability continues with this project, as we create and deliver at a quality that has become synonymous with Dart developments.”
The plan is for healthcare professionals, from general medical practitioners and specialists to those offering allied services like chiropractors, physiotherapists and yoga instructors, to work out of the proposed centre.
“They can all call home a building that will provide a warm and welcoming environment for tenants and their clients, with supporting ground-floor amenities such as a café and wellness offerings,” the statement noted.
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