New Greensboro medical plaza to begin seeing patients by late July

Medical Plaza Northwest at 2909 Horse Pen Creek Road will begin seeing patients by late July, adding a new layer of specialty care to northwest Greensboro’s growing medical corridor. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist plans a ribbon cutting and facility tours at 9:30 a.m. Friday, June 26, at the five-story building.

The 134,000-square-foot plaza is designed around services that often force patients to make multiple trips across the city. Atrium says the building will house cardiology, gastroenterology, general surgery and orthopaedics, along with an outpatient surgery center built with three operating rooms and two procedure rooms. The site will also include a cancer center tied to Atrium’s National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, plus infusion bays, a pharmacy, imaging and physical therapy services.

For Greensboro patients, the benefit is not just a new address but a tighter cluster of care in one part of the city. A person who needs a specialist visit, imaging and follow-up therapy should be able to move through those services without the long drive that can slow treatment or add missed work and extra childcare costs. That kind of convenience matters most in northwest Greensboro, where growth has pushed more people toward the Horse Pen Creek Road and I-840 area.

Atrium has been building in Greensboro for nearly two decades. The system says it opened its first Greensboro practice in 2006 and now operates more than 35 primary, specialty and urgent care practices in the city. Medical Plaza Northwest is the latest piece of that expansion, and it arrives alongside a much larger hospital project on the same site.

That separate Greensboro Medical Center was approved for $262.8 million and is planned as a 36-bed hospital with 20 emergency department bays, 12 observation beds, two operating rooms, two procedure rooms, two CT scanners, one fixed MRI scanner and 152 full-time-equivalent employees at full capacity. The opening, originally expected in July 2026, has been pushed to January 2029.

The Horse Pen Creek corridor has also drawn attention because of the land use changes that come with large-scale medical construction. Atrium has said it will plant more than 600 trees to offset those removed for the project, underscoring how the campus is reshaping a fast-growing pocket of Guilford County as much as it is expanding care.