Syracuse Community Health Center

Since its founding in 1978, Syracuse Community Health Center has served more than 100,000 members of the Syracuse and Onondaga County community. Social justice is an important part of their mission, operating on the belief that health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to reach their full health potential. Part of achieving this goal is ensuring patients, physicians, nurses, and other staff and visitors have access to quality facilities. Appel Osborne has assisted SCHC in accomplishing this through master planning, design for expansion, and most recently, site design for a new building that provides a variety of outpatient services.

New Facility and Community Gateway

• Site design for a new two-story 55,500 GSF medical facility in Downtown Syracuse, NY.
• Coordination for the remediation of significantly contaminated soils in compliance with NYSDEC regulations for Brownfield Cleanup Program Sites.
• Permitting and agency coordination to obtain Site Plan Approval including SEQRA assessment and site plans for approval by the Syracuse City Planning Board, Syracuse City Engineering Department, and Syracuse City Department of Public Works.
• Site design includes streetscape and neighborhood unification, building entry plaza, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, 120+/- space parking lot, signage, ornamental fencing, landscaping, site lighting, site utilities, and storm water management.
• Streetscape design including decorative pavement and tree plantings.