Snoqualmie Valley Health breaks ground on expansion
Published 4:30 pm Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Snoqualmie Valley Health leadership broke ground Aug. 22 on the HUB, an expanded medical clinic and community wellness center.
The HUB, according to those behind the project, aims to be a place for holistic health. Rather than just curing the sick, Snoqualmie Valley Health (SVH) wants to invest in a healthier Snoqualmie Valley through preventive wellness.
“This project began with a simple but powerful question: How do we secure sustainable healthcare for generations to come in Snoqualmie Valley?” SVH CEO Renee Jensen said at the groundbreaking.
The HUB, at least 80,000 square feet in size, will add to the list of SVH healthcare offerings with 33 exam rooms, four operating rooms, a rehabilitation center, outpatient services and a retail pharmacy. It will have a cafe, a full-service restaurant, a gym with a climbing wall and community meeting spaces.
It is also expected that the project will create 225 jobs and nearly double SVH’s staff by 2030.
“The hub is more than healthcare,” Jensen said. “It will be a place where people gather to meet friends at the restaurant, to watch a kiddo bouldering, to admire an athlete training in the gym, to join a wellness program or a community class. It is a place where connection, health and life for the Valley will come together in new ways.”
The ceremonial groundbreaking event took place at the future site of the HUB, just east of the SVH hospital in Snoqualmie Ridge. The construction team has been preparing the site for a few months now and will soon begin digging out the building’s foundation.
The project, expected to be completed in 2026, is being built by GLY Construction of Bellevue and designed by Mahlum Architects of Seattle. Both of the team leads, PJ Bauser with Mahlum and Jeff Crawford with GLY, have experience in building healthcare facilities.
Bauser said he found a passion for healthcare early in his career when working a similar project on San Juan Island and has been “chasing the feeling” since.
“I found it to be kind of transformative in terms of bringing my own connection to what the built environment can mean and what it can mean to have healthcare services brought close to home so that you’re not leaving this community that you have all chosen and invested to be within,” he said at the groundbreaking.
Bauser emphasized not only the HUB’s healthcare facilities, but also community space, including the great food crafted by SVH Executive Chef Blake Lord-Wittig at the new restaurant.
“I think many of you here will find Friday nights are going to be located at the HUB, whether you’re coming for help or whether you’re coming for wine at the wine bar,” Bauser said.
Before the groundbreaking, Jensen gave a toast in celebration of all to come in the future of SVH.
“Here’s to the team whose courage and belief never wavered, and to the community this project will serve,” she said. “And here’s to the HUB inspiring wellness for life’s great adventures.”
