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City OKs Pardee's southside medical office building

UNC Health Pardee plans a 42,520-square-foot medical facility on land on Spartanburg Highway outlined in yellow.

By Lightning Reports, Published: July 6, 2025

The Hendersonville City Council last week authorized a rezoning to allow UNC Health Pardee to build a two-story medical office building on Spartanburg Highway across from Bryan Easler Toyota and west of Shepherd Street.

The clinic will have access from Spartanburg Highway in front and Old Spartanburg Road in back, 195 parking spaces, a public drop off area and a pharmacy drive-thru. A traffic impact analysis by Kimley Horn engineers projected the facility would generate 1,826 trips/day, 118 morning peak hour trips and 180 afternoon peak hour trips.

“Introducing CHMU (Commercial Highway Mixed Use) zoning along the Spartanburg Highway corridor aligns with the goals of the Gen H Comprehensive Plan for this area,” a planning staff report said. “Therefore, this project is not only compatible with the current character of the corridor but also with its envisioned future.”

The 42,520-square-foot medical facility “not only aligns with GenH but it really aligns with (Pardee’s goal of) extending access to the southern part of the county,” John Bryant, Pardee’s vice president for operations and support services, told the council.

The southside medical office building is one of four projects in Pardee’s major expansion of health care services in the region. Others are planned for Brevard and Mills River and on the main campus on U.S. 64 between Justus and Fleming streets.