ESCONDIDO — A nearly vacant office building that once housed medical practices near the former site of Palomar Hospital will be converted into a 21-unit residential apartment complex
The 19,000-square-foot building, located on a 0.69-acre site at 240 S. Hickory Street, primarily served low-intensity medical offices while the hospital was nearby.
Darshan Patel owns the building and has been planning the conversion for several years. He purchased the property in 2020, intending to turn it into apartments, but kept it as a medical office while it remained fully leased…