At a board meeting last week, the Petersburg Medical Center board of directors approved $20,000 to work with DOWL, a project management firm, on the facility project.

DOWL will be looking at space requirements and the possible location for a new or remodeled PMC facility. They will also build off existing work and progress that has been made towards the project to avoid repeating work that has already been done.

“They can have a product to us in about six weeks to really kind of determine those kinds of aspects,” said PMC CEO Phil Hofstetter on Nov. 20.

The project management firm can h...