NCH buys Naples Daily News building in North Naples

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Above is the Naples Daily News building at 1100 Immokalee Road in North Naples. NCH Healthcare System announced it bought the building from the newspaper Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Credit: WINK News.

NCH Healthcare System announced Wednesday it bought the Naples Daily News building in North Naples, and the health leader says it will give it a chance to grow with the community. It’s not yet known how much the sale of the building was.

“It’s time for us to start growing,” Nancy Kelly said. “We need health care. We need it so bad.”

The move comes at an important time for the health system.

“It’s a fabulous time for that,” Susan Giovanni said. “Our hospitals are so taxed and strained.”

“The hospitals are a big business in this area; that’s for sure,” Tom Giles said.

NCH says the current plans will include relocation of accounting, billing, IT and system warehousing from the central NCH campus on Pine Ridge Road.

We are still waiting to hear back from Naples Daily News about what this means for the newspaper.

“So many people are working remotely now,” Giovanni said. “They don’t need all of that brick-and-mortar space anymore.”

People in Collier County are happy to hear about the new growth for NCH.

“It’s only going to get worse, so we need it,” Giovanni said. “It’s a really great dynamic move that they made, and I’m glad to hear it.”

The Naples Daily News building is at 1100 Immokalee Road. The NCH move is expected to be complete by early spring 2021.

“I really do think that the hospital is in good measure for this,” Kelly said.

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