BUTLER TWP — The VA Butler Healthcare’s new Health Care Center still is on track to be done by July 2017, but it will likely be much longer before VA officials figure out what will be done with the system’s current main building on its New Castle Road campus.

“Bear with me on that,” said David Cord, system director. “It is a very slow-moving process.”

Cord said the VA Butler Healthcare’s new center on Duffy Road in Center Township is on target to open in late summer next year, but that the process of determining what will ultimately happen with its current main facility — known as Building One — will likely take 18 months to two years.

Cord said that the process includes a historical review, a process in which the VA solicits interest from other federal agencies, and an “enhanced use” lease agreement process that tests the interest from private businesses.

Whatever does happen to Building One, Cord said, it won’t change the fact that the VA system will continue to manage the New Castle Road campus and operate the other buildings at the site.

“We’ll be running both campuses,” he said.

Cord’s comments came in response to questions Thursday night from residents at the VA’s quarterly town hall meeting to share information on the new health center.

He said the building’s steel work, concrete work, main mechanical elements, and main water line have been completed.

Currently in process is work on the building’s insulation, roofing, framing, brick, and lights and utility hookups.

Still to come, Cord said, are improvements to Duffy Road, paving and landscaping work on site, interior painting work, and the first phase of the center’s therapy pool installation.