WATERVILLE — The Staples store at 40 Waterville Commons Drive is slated to close permanently April 10 and a primary care clinic and separate urgent care clinic are being planned for the space.

The ConvenientMD primary and urgent care clinics will be built separately inside about 17,000 square feet of the 24,000-square-foot building and have separate entrances and exits, according to John Aldrich, chief brand officer for Convenient MD, which has many clinics in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

“This will be our first location with a primary care and urgent care clinic,” Aldrich said Tuesday.

The building will be gutted inside and redeveloped with a plan to open the clinics toward the end of the year, he said.

The building was purchased by Harborlight Properties, which will lease most of the building to ConvenientMD, and the remaining 7,000 square feet would be remodeled and leased, according to Michael d’Hemecourt, principal at Harborlight.

Staples signed a lease for the building in 2001. While the corporate office did not respond to a request for comment, an employee at the store said workers were surprised by the company’s announcement that the store would close.

“As of right now, there are no plans to open up another location,” Dominic Carrier said last week.

Carrier, who described himself as the manager on duty at the time, said six people work at the store.

With Northern Light Inland Hospital having closed in the city, laying off physicians and other healthcare workers, and associated area practices also closing, the ConvenientMD primary and urgent care clinics at the Waterville Commons site will offer alternatives at a visible location just off Interstate 95.

d’Hemecourt said he expects Staples will be out of the building by the end of April and construction would start in May. It is the eighth project Harborlight has done for Convenient MD, he said. Harborlight will also look for another tenant for the remainder of the building, d’Hemecourt said.

“It will be an exciting location for everyone involved,” he said.

The construction will include a full refreshing of the building, with new systems including heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, and a new facade on the outside, d’Hemecourt said.

Aldrich, of ConvenientMD, said recruitments are underway for physicians, physicians assistants, nurse practitioners and other health care workers.

“We do have people interested,” he said.

People may apply for positions at ConvenientMD.com, Aldrich said. Medical receptionists, medical assistants and clinical staff also will be hired.

When ConvenientMD, an independent provider, opened an urgent care in Bangor last August, he said, it was overwhelmed with people seeking care. That site has four primary physicians and the company is looking for more, he said.

The urgent care clinic in Waterville will be open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week, Aldrich said. While the times are not set in concrete for the primary care clinic, they typically are open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, he said. Both take insurance.

The goal is to provide better access for many people needing care, he said. Access is difficult and ConvenientMD is pitching to primary care physicians that it is a good place for them to work, according to Aldrich.