Bowling Green celebrates progress made on new veterans care facility

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – It’s going to be a big help to the veterans in the community, officials say.

The Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce held a small celebration to talk more about the new facility being built in the Kentucky Transpark. The building will be 80,000 square feet, with 90 beds ready to be filled in December. Right now, the facility is about 60 percent complete and will soon be accepting resident applications in the summer. Once fully operational, the building will provide 120 jobs in the community and could eventually expand to house 30 more veterans once staffing is complete.

The new building is not meant to be thought of as a “nursing home”, but a community. State Representative Michael Meredith told us this is somewhere veterans will want to live once they see it. The facility is meant to serve disabled veterans and Meredith said with the amount of veterans the community has and the proximity to military bases, “the need is definitely there.”