As part of the Lowe’s Heroes campaign, employees from the company’s Mooresville corporate headquarters are spending their free time renovating the HealthReach Community Clinic here.

The Lowe’s volunteers have been volunteering since early this month with the design, demolition, cabinet construction, general carpentry and painting of the nonprofit’s building on Statesville Avenue.

Ultimately, the project will create a more efficient workspace for HealthReach employees and volunteers, enabling the clinic to serve a growing number of people who need free medical care.

“It’s been an amazing transformation,” said Rory Crawford, HealthReach’s executive director. “We said ‘Here are our problems,’ and the senior designer was up to do the blue prints.”

Melissa Birdsong, vice president of trend and design for Lowe’s, drew out some architectural and interior design plans for the project.

“Once that plan was in place we took out the front desk, took out the carpet in the lobby and put in lock-and-fold flooring; which was done from a cleanliness standpoint,” said Kristina Panuski, Lowe’s marketingspecialist and co-project leader. “It’ll keep the space cleaner and be easier for them to maintain over the long haul.”

All of the renovations are inside the HealthReach building.

One significant change has been to expand an office area that held five people into a much-needed new pharmacy.

A pass-through from a new front desk to pharmacy will quicken the process for getting and placing prescriptions for clients and create a more efficient workflow. The old pharmacy is being turned into a kitchen and meeting area/doctors work station.

What used to be the kitchen will now be turned into office space for two part-time employees and one full-timer.