The company is seeking roughly $4.5 million to $4.7 million in city financial assistance for the revised project, called Truman Commons, including a discount on land costs, tax incremental financing (TIF) and support from the city’s Affordable Housing Fund.

SSM Health, meanwhile, is moving to acquire the grocery store property from Welton to build a 176,000-square-foot medical clinic to replace its aging, existing facility at 1313 Fish Hatchery Road, SSM director of facilities management Brandon King said. SSM would also expand and improve an existing parking lot behind the clinic, he said.

Although SSM Health and Welton are not doing a joint project, the two are continuing to collaborate to minimize the time between closure of the existing grocery store and the opening of a new, larger one, and to coordinate public improvements necessary for both projects, King and Welton vice president Paul Molinaro said.

SSM anticipates submitting a land use application in the summer and hopes to secure approvals and begin construction in the fall, King said.

In addition, SSM intends to make further refinements to its long-term vision for its entire Fish Hatchery campus including potential future buildings and a parking structure, King said. SSM does not have a budget for those improvements, he said.