Hello again...
WDTN 2 News On Your Side is following the story about CSL Plasma's plan to bring a plasma collection facility to the Riverdale neighborhood at 850 N. Main Street.
I loved the coverage and the interview with Ken Smiley of Ken's Kars, although I must point out that the plans are not to relocate a plasma center from Helena St... but to build a whole new facility.
In fact, a new facility in Riverdale would be competing with the other ones around town.
Plasma Collection is important.
Plasma donation is not just blood donation.
Plasma, when extracted from the blood, appears yellow.
It contains all kinds of proteins, nutrients and other good stuff used to make vaccines.
So it saves lives! (oh, and it is VERY lucrative... just booming... I mean a HUGE business)
But the other end is that they "reportedly" attract violence and drug activity, due to their locations, designs and disregard for the communities in which they do business.
I don't believe all reports, but I believe these.
What do you get when you place a bunch of desperate people (some of whom are drug addicts) in a small room and make them wait for three hours for money? - I don't know, but I know it's probably safer with medical professionals, nurses, staff and security everywhere.
CSL, Change the culture of these places, and you could change the plasma collection business!
I recall a planning board member saying that this could work if CSL Behring and the city can find a way to "integrate" the business into the community.
I totally agree, but look at the shack they have planned.
That's not going to integrate or improve the community.
How about a large facility, with huge waiting rooms, multiple stories and offices for other businesses.
If the idea were pitched that way, CSL Behring could get away with the permitted use exemption.
Instead, it appears the company wants to set up shop as quickly and as cheaply as possible in order to begin collecting plasma.
They are saving lives... at our expense...
Start the entire application process over, and involve the public.
Above photo is from this morning, Friday, October 22, 2010.
More to come....
Nandy, out.
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