This new hospital will replace a 60-year-old hospital at the same site in Whitehall. The new hospital will have private patient rooms, a trauma center and helipad-landing zone.
The project added a 12,892-square-foot ballroom, a 7,226-square-foot atrium, seven meeting rooms and various office spaces. It also added a lobby with a grand staircase to the ballroom level, a renovated North Hall and an extension over Front Street and a roof-top terrace looking over the Mississippi River in downtown La Crosse.
The Rolling Hills center will have 50 skilled-nursing beds, 24 residential-care assisted-living units, and 24 assisted-living apartments with nursing, medical visits, therapy and short-term rehab services.
The project remodeled the existing gym to add 10 cells to its jail – six on the main floor and four on the mezzanine level. The expansion also opens up the center’s gym to other cell blocks and to a central control pod.
The schools were paid for using a $46 million bond referendum approved by voters in April 2018. Other projects paid for through the same referendum include a $9.1 million River Falls Montessori Elementary, the remodeling of River Falls High School and additions to Greenwood Elementary and Rocky Branch Elementary schools.
The building will have a new showroom and a full-service department with 34 bays, including two detail bays and a car wash. It will also have new sales and finance offices and a storage mezzanine.
Summing up a five-decade business career in a 15-minute conversation isn’t easy, but the longtime Kraus-Anderson executive Daniel Engelsma gave it a good shot during a recent interview. Engelsma is retiring after 50 years at Kraus-Anderson, which has its main offices in Minneapolis.