A Johnson Memorial Health primary care office will soon open in Bargersville.

The town council recently adopted the ordinance to rezone 2.32 acres of a 5.952-acre parcel of land just east of the Bargersville Police Department at Whiteland and Morgantown roads for the Franklin-based county hospital. The land was previously zoned rural residential, but it is now C-2, which allows multiple types of commercial businesses, including medical offices.

JMH plans to build a nearly 9,830-square-foot medical office building to house up to four doctors, along with parking and a detention pond for the facility. The hospital doesn’t plan to develop the remainder of the parcel, but instead is allowing the town to purchase the rest of the property to use as officials see fit, said Dr. David Dunkle, JMH

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