Seven months after Lawrence Memorial Hospital took over an existing therapy service in Baldwin City, it is preparing to relocate and expand the clinic.

Jaye Cole, director of the Lawrence Memorial Hospital therapy department, said LMH has offered physical and occupational therapy at 814 High Street in Baldwin City since Feb. 1, when it acquired Baldwin Therapy Services from Laura Bennetts.

The clinic is looking to relocate to 818 Ames St. in October with the expiration of its lease on the High Street office. It is now remodeling for that purpose the western portion of the strip mall that is home to the Subway Restaurant, Cole said.

The new site off US Highway 56 will give the clinic more visibility and added room for the two physical therapists and the occupational therapist who staff the Baldwin City site, Cole said. The Ames Street location has 2,000 square feet, compared with the 1,200 square feet available at the current location.
“We are spending money to bring in more equipment, so we can offer more services,” Cole said.

The relocation of the physical therapy clinic will create a vacancy in downtown Baldwin City, but observant pedestrians may have observed activity presaging the coming occupancy of another site.

The storefront at the corner of Eighth and High streets in Baldwin City, which has been the home in recent years of the Baldwin Academy of Dance and Voice, a photo studio and more recently the private studio of artist Meg Cundiff, is getting a makeover for a new tenant.

Peter Carr said he would locate an Edward Jones office in the corner storefront when remodeling is complete “likely by the first of the year.” Carr currently works out of a shared Edward Jones office in Gardner.
It’s a natural move for Carr, who lives in Baldwin City and whose wife, Kelly, is a Baldwin High School graduate.

He has been with Edward Jones for two years and a client for a decade, he said.

Edward Jones is seen as a firm specializing in retirement investment planning, but it offers a range of “holistic” financial planning services to individuals and small companies, Carr said.