Lovers Lane, already home to a number of existing or planned medical facilities, is getting one more.

TriStar Greenview Regional Hospital, working in conjunction with the Greenhills Development Partners LLC that is developing the Greenhills planned unit development, was approved Wednesday for a planned freestanding emergency room at 478 Lovers Lane.

The approval for an overlay development plan came from the Warren County Design Review Board, and it calls for construction of an 11,131-square-foot emergency room on a 1.86-acre site that is bounded by Lovers Lane, Frist Boulevard and Hazen Court.

Greenview’s planned emergency room is across Lovers Lane from a 10-acre parcel where Med Center Health plans to build a hybrid freestanding emergency department and urgent care facility in The Hub development.

It’s also near the existing Greenview Surgery Center at 484 Golden Autumn Way and the adjacent 30-acre site where a 72-bed, 238,405-square-foot TriStar Greenview Regional East Hospital is expected to be built.

Greenview, a subsidiary of Nashville-based HCA Healthcare, has received certificate of need approval from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services for the second hospital and for a ground ambulance service to be called Warren County EMS that will operate along with the Med Center EMS ambulance service.

The hospital hasn’t yet begun building either facility.

When the CON approval for the ambulance service was announced in October 2023, Greenview CEO Mike Sherrod hailed it as “something that’s needed with the growth in the county.”

To help handle that growth and expected future growth, Greenview proposed in its latest CON application to spend $1,993,103 to establish the ambulance service with offices in a former medical office building adjacent to Greenview’s Ashley Circle headquarters and build a 3,000-square-foot metal building for ambulance bays.

Med Center EMS has had the county ambulance service pretty much to itself since 1980, when the Med Center Health affiliate took over operation of the county ambulance service with no financial support from the city of Bowling Green or the county.

From that beginning, Med Center EMS has grown to a 102-employee operation with 12 ambulances, a 28,000-square-foot base station on East Third Avenue and a second station on Industrial Drive.

Greenview’s CON application spelled out a timeline for establishing its ambulance service, and Sherrod said the new service can work in conjunction with Med Center EMS.

Starting in 2025, Warren County EMS would operate six vehicles and make an estimated 4,500 emergency runs and 1,500 non-emergency runs in its first year, according to the application.

“It’s a great opportunity to get a system where we work together to make sure we’re meeting the needs,” Sherrod said.

A second overlay development plan approved at Wednesday’s meeting is also expected to contribute to the growth in the Lovers Lane corridor.

MKB Real Estate Holdings LLC, headed by Mark Biggs of Biggs Financial Services, was approved for a plan to construct a mixed-use commercial space on a 1.11-acre lot at the corner of Natchez Trace Avenue and Lovers Lane.