Prince William Animal Hospital to Build New Facility in Manassas

Veterinarian Teresa Brown's dream of building a larger animal hospital to serve the 5,000-plus patients is one step closer to coming true.

The city of Manassas issued a Special Use Permit for the building of the new 8,600 square foot facility—the new home for Prince William Animal Hospital.

The practice will remain on Nokesville Road on the same parcel of land as the current hospital located inside a small house, Brown said.

The three buildings now on the property-the animal hospital, a staff break room and a storage facility-will eventually be torn down as the phases of the new hospital are completed.

The new hospital will have two floors: the ground/basement level will be about 2,800 square feet while the first floor will be 5,800 square feet, Brown said.

The new building will have seven examination rooms as well as an area for animal acupuncture, Brown said.

The planned hospital is a far cry from the current cozy 1,100 square foot facility, the home of the animal hospital for 40 years.

Brown worked as a veterinarian at the hospital nine years before purchasing it in 1999. 

 "Since that time the Bristow area exploded," Brown said.

As new homes and businesses spouted in the Nokesville and Bristow area, the practice grew.

Brown thinks they have anywhere from five to six thousand patients, so many that the staff is constantly running out of room for patient files.

A new building has been in the cards for a while but was stymied by the poor economy that settled in after the once booming real estate market became a bust.

Now that things are looking up, Brown said she is ready to move forward with the plans.

Though a construction start date isn't clear, she surmises the project will take less than a year to complete once they break ground.

The four veterinarians and their staff will continue to see patients during the construction by working out of temporary trailers that will be set up on the site, she said.