Rob Hillesland
Summit-Tribune
Forest City veterinarians Gene Fjeld and Ceara Mullins are a father and daughter team with passion to treat animals.
Daughter Ceara returning home from vet school to the family practice in the Forest City Veterinary Clinic would, on its own, be news.
But now the big move to a much larger and better-equipped new vet clinic building at 524 Nerem Drive West in Nerem Industrial Park on the south side of Forest City is fast-approaching.
The veterinarians, spanning two generations, are seeing their big plans to relocate and expand the clinic come to fruition quickly. What started as seeking to do a second expansion of the existing clinic at 35058 180th Ave. in Forest City morphed into relocation to the new building nearly double the size.
Rob Hillesland
Summit-Tribune
Longtime Forest City veterinarian Gene Fjeld told Holland Contracting building director and projects manager Greg Flugum in early spring 2019 that the Forest City Veterinary Clinic facility had become too small, and that a plan to expand was needed.
Flugum confirmed that was when the clinic s current new building construction and relocation project ultimately began. He met with Fjeld and his family and employees multiple times, first looking to expand the existing facility at 35058 180th Avenue in Forest City before deciding to build an all new facility.
The existing clinic location and other properties were briefly considered. Then the City of Forest City informed the parties that Nerem Industrial Park had multiple open lots, providing a plot map with lot sizes, locations, and available infrastructure.