The Eastside Health Economic Development Initiative (EHEDI), spearheaded by the Gainesville Community Reinvestment Area (GCRA), is a ±13.6 acre development designed to spur economic development and provide essential resources within the presently under-served East Gainesville area. EHEDI will include a UF Health urgent care clinic and a Gainesville Regional Transit System (RTS) transfer station, infrastructure to connect the complex, a roadway connecting SE Hawthorne Road and SE 8th Ave, an extension of SE 6th Ave, and future plans for a fire station, office, grocery store, retail/medical building, and a community garden.

CHW, an NV5 company provided due diligence, intergovernmental coordination, and project advocacy for EHEDI, and is currently assisting with several individual developments encompassed by this project, detailed below.

UF Health Eastside Urgent Care Clinic
Our team is providing surveying and mapping services and stormwater management plans.

RTS Eastside Bus Transfer Station
Our team is providing surveying and mapping services, site plans and construction documents.

Complex Infrastructure
Our team is providing civil design, landscape architecture, civil permitting, and construction phase services.

Roadway
For the roadway connecting SE Hawthorne Road and SE 8th Ave, as well as the extension to SE 6th Ave, our team is providing construction engineering inspection services.