As hospital and local officials celebrated with dozens of community members inside, Clay Goldberg and three others stood outside the newly opened Montrose Regional Health Ambulatory Care Center on Thursday.
Nearly five years ago, leaders at Montrose Regional Health looked around the hospital built on South Third Street in 1949 and realized they had a good problem.
About 17 months ago, ceremonial shovels shifted a bit of ground at the vacant lot across from Hobby Lobby. Steadily, from behind construction fences, steel beams began rising to form