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Dentist Office Relocation

One move for the dental equipment, two location moves for the dentist

PROBLEM: The public agency needed this dentist’s property 18 months before the dentist’s replacement property would be ready. Closing the dental practice for 18 months was out of the question. Moving twice would not only be disruptive to the business, it would also be costly to the dentist because the second move would not be eligible for reimbursement from the public agency.

HOW MARTYN HELPED: Martyn worked with the dentist and the public agency to form an agreement that would allow the dentist to move to an interim location, the agency would pay for the costs to move once, as well as, pay for the costs of a setting up and renting a modular office building at an interim site until the replacement site was ready. Martyn then suggested to the dentist that rather than moving his equipment a second time with no reimbursement from the public agency simply move the entire interim building to the new site with the equipment in tact. Martyn worked closely with the Dentist’s designers and contractors to separate eligible and ineligible reimbursable costs to help evaluate the feasibility of this plan.

The plan was successful. The dentist built a new building at an interim site and moved his practice to that site while the permanent site was being made ready. When the time was right, the entire building with equipment was moved and installed at the permanent site. The dentist had only minimal downtime for the second move and had minimized out of pocket, or ineligible, relocation expenses for the second move.

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Dentist’s Original Location

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Dentist’s Interim Site with New Building

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Moving Interim Building to Permanent Site

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Permanent Site and Relocation Complete

Martyn Daniel Eminent Domain Specialist