Clatsop County is entertaining a proposal to sell the former Darigold building in downtown Astoria to a group eying the site for a non-profit health and social services complex.
The project is being led by Coastal Family Health Center, which proposes to replace the existing cinderblock structure with a new “green” facility housing its own clinic as well as offices for Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare and other social service agencies.
The Darigold building, located at Ninth and Duane streets, was built in 1947 and was in use until the 1960s. Clatsop County acquired the property through tax foreclosure in 1992, and leased the building to the Columbia River Maritime Museum from 1993 to 2006. The county currently uses the building for storage.
According to Coastal Family Health Center, the new health services facility would be a three-story, 40,000-square-foot structure with parking underneath. The building would take advantage of new environmentally-friendly design and construction methods.
“Our vision is to create a facility where non-profit medical care, mental health services, alcohol and drug treatment and other community services are offered,” Coastal Family Health Director Jim Coffee said in a letter to the county. “We see this as a fiscal value to the agencies and an opportunity to better coordinate delivery of services to our clients.”
Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare is the county’s contracted provider of substance abuse treatment and mental health services.
The deal may involve a three-way transaction in which the county would acquire two other properties ? the former Morris Glass building at Seventh and Duane streets owned by Randy Stemper, and an adjacent vacant lot owned by David Lum.
Coastal Family Health Center has retained the local business development consulting firm NoLoveNoFish LLC to assist with the project. NoLoveNoFish’s partners include Peter Huhtala, commissioner-elect for District 3 on the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners.
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