NATCHEZ — City, county, health care and other officials will meet Monday to discuss the possible construction of a “health care complex” at Duncan Park.

Mayor Butch Brown said he envisions the complex to include a public indoor pool, which would also be available for aquatic therapy, a track and a clinic.

“A place where you could get treated for bee stings or a cold or get vaccinations,” he said.

The complex, Brown said, would be located at the site of Duncan Park’s old, no-longer-in-use swimming pool and would also serve as a location for nutrition classes and other services.

“It would be a total health care and wellness package program,” he said.

The complex, Brown said, would be a collaborative effort of the city, Adams County, Adams County Health Department, Natchez Regional Medical Center and Natchez Community Hospital, as well as other “interested stakeholders” and investors.

The complex would be located in the county’s “health care zone,” which the city and county declared earlier this year the Mississippi Health Care Industry Zone Act.

The act, which went into effect last July, authorizes the establishment of health care zones in the state where significant acute-care facilities exist.

The law is designed to promote the growth of the health care industry in Mississippi and provides a range of incentives for health care development in the designated zones.

Because of the two hospitals in Natchez and other health care facilities in the area, a health care zone could be established in the city, in which Duncan Park, Martin Luther King Jr. and St. Catherine streets would fall.

The city and Chartre Consulting have been working to acquire parcels of land in the Martin Luther King Jr. and St. Catherine streets area for a scattered-site housing project.

The health care zone act allows for tax incentives for housing developers and health-care related businesses within the zone.

The city announced Tuesday at the board of aldermen meeting that four lots had been donated on downtown streets, including Smith Lane, St. Catherine Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Street.

The goal of the first phase of the project, Brown said, is to get enough lots to build at least 40 housing units. The ultimate goal, he said, is to build 100 houses.

The city is attempting to integrate the potential health care complex and housing project into the health care zone, the mayor said.

Brown also hinted that an announcement of a community center for the Martin Luther King Jr. and St. Catherine streets area could be close.

Brown said he hopes the projects will be completed by 2016, as he wants them to be legacy projects for Natchez’s tricentennial celebration.

“We’re not there by any stretch of the imagination, but we are making little baby steps,” he said. “All of these things contribute to the health and growth of our community, and we’re making super progress.”