Tulare hospital restarts quest to complete long-delayed medical tower
Tulare hospital restarts quest to complete long-delayed medical tower The 16-year odyssey to build an expansion medical tower at Tulare's hospital will get another chapter after the Tulare Local Healthcare District Board of Directors appointed a community advisory committee to look at options to finally complete the project. Tulare voters first passed an $85 million bond measure to build the tower in 2005. Construction finally broke ground in 2010, but a series of construction delays, cost overruns, changes to the construction plans, and underestimation of the cost of the project when the...