HUBER HEIGHTS — The Charles H. Huber Health Center is planning a $6 million, two-story, 30,000-square-foot addition that will include an emergency center for the patients it serves in northern Montgomery County.

The construction project will add about 12 emergency rooms on the first floor and multi-purpose space on the second floor, said Jerad Barnett, president and CEO of Synergy Development, which owns the center’s building. It will oversee the project.

Barnett said the expansion has the potential to create 60 or more jobs.

Developers met with the Huber Heights public works committee Wednesday night, July 14, to review their construction plans.

Synergy originally received approval for a 11,000-square-foot addition, but developers said the project will benefit from more space.

“The urgent care in the existing portion will move over and combine with the emergency center, then the urgent care area will be converted into medical offices,” said Scott Falkowski, the city’s engineer. “They saw the market was better for more offices and a larger facility.”

The health center, which opened in 1983, is 61,000 square feet and is almost 100 percent occupied.

It has physicians’ offices and provides comprehensive urgent care, pharmacy, radiology and lab services, developers said.

Huber Health Center, at 8701 Old Troy Pike, is part of Grandview Medical Center and the Kettering Medical Center Network.

The city council has scheduled a public hearing for July 26, prior to voting on the development plan, which they expect to approve.

Construction on the addition should begin as soon as the city gives the project the green light.

Not everyone is thrilled with the project.

At a June 22 city planning commission meeting, a small group of residents voiced their concerns about the expansion.

Those concerns included noise from ambulance sirens, losing urgent care services and having to pay higher costs for treatment at the center.

But council members described the project as promising and added that some residents are bound to complain about any type of development.