Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) has secured an initial round of borough permitting to construct a “new medical facility with associated multi-unit housing for staff” on Jones Point Road, according to the permit application. The estimated start for site development is April 2026.

This first permit, approved last week, is a site development permit, which allows SEARHC to begin “site clean-up, leveling and grading, and fill work.” 

SEARHC spokesperson Matt Carle initially agreed to…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.