Care close to home

Some might say that one path to success is finding a thing you do really well and specialize in that.

For Louie Lu, who has had a number of successful business ventures, that one specialty would be building high-quality medical facilities.

From his first project about 16 years ago, which still houses Baylor Family Medicine in Weatherford, Lu has projects all over the metroplex, but his heart is here in his hometown.

He completed two medical buildings, one 14,000 square feet and another 12,000 square feet along Crowne Point in Willow Park a few years ago, and also built the Baylor Rehab building in Aledo.

On adjacent property just past the Tri-County Electric building in Aledo, his latest project is a two-building medical plaza in Aledo.

Three tenants are already booked to anchor the plaza: Goodwin Dental, Cook Children’s Pediatrics, and Clover Oxygen Hyperbarics & Wound Care.

Cook recently vacated their office in Willow Park, and is operating temporarily at the Walsh location while their new space is finished out. Goodwin and Clover are already operating at the new location.

The steel-structured building is separated from Tri-County by a new retaining wall. Lu quipped that “the Chinese have been building walls for 5,000 years - we know how to build a wall!”

The modern-themed facility also has artificial grass as a water-saving measure in the summer.

Only two spaces remain in the plaza — one is 3,267 square feet and one is 4,551 square feet. Lu is hoping to find perhaps a primary care provider or an urgent care facility to round out the tenants.