YORK, PA. — KeyBank has provided a total of $17.8 million to refinance two healthcare facilities in York. The properties are Autumn House East, a five-building, 141-bed healthcare facility; and Autumn House West, a three-building, 132-bed assisted living and memory care facility. The properties were built in 1958 with renovations each decade. Patrick Shearer of KeyBank’s Commercial Mortgage Group arranged the fixed-rate loans with 30-year amortization schedules on behalf of borrower Persimmon Ventures LLC and Big Bay Ventures LLC. The facilities operate as licensed personal care homes and are leased and operated by Cardinal Senior Management LLC.
WESTPORT, CONN. — NKF has negotiated the $18.7 million sale of Westport Center for Health in Westport. Located at 323-329 Riverside Ave., Yale New Haven Health’s Northeast Medical Group anchors the 38,000-square-foot property. The property recently underwent an extensive renovation highlighted by the demolition of an entire building to convert the former five-building office campus into a four-building medical office complex with added parking to accommodate medical office tenants. Frank Nelson, Michael Greeley, James Tribble and Casey O’Brien of NKF’s Boston Capital Markets team represented the seller, The Davis Cos., in the transaction. The buyer was Healthcare Trust of America Inc.
ROCKFORD, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of the Cornerstone Medical Building in Rockford for an undisclosed price. Constructed in 1988 and renovated in 2003, the 61,174-square-foot medical office building is 84 percent leased to a variety of healthcare providers, including pain management, retina care, dermatology, gynecology and orthopedics. Ben Tashakorian and David Benjamin of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Ephraim LLC. Cornerstone Cos. Inc. purchased the asset.
OXON HILL, MD. — Developer Trammell Crow Co. and financial partner Meadow Partners have opened The Medical Pavilion at National Harbor, a 95,000-square-foot medical office building located at 201 National Harbor Blvd. in Oxon Hill, about 12 miles south of downtown Washington, D.C. The office building offers front desk concierge and security, valet parking and covered patient drop-off for patients and guests. Matt Sullivan, Lindsey Groom and Kirsten Ryan of Cushman & Wakefield are leading the property’s leasing efforts. The firm is also managing the building. There is currently 30,000 square feet of space available to lease after Cushman & Wakefield signed tenants including a regional hospital system, ambulatory surgery center, primary care and several specialists, including orthopedics, radiology and dermatology. National Harbor is a planned 300-acre, riverfront community in Prince George’s County that will feature 3,300 hotel rooms; 2,500 residential units; 1 million square feet of office space; and 1 million square feet of retail, dining and entertainment space upon full buildout.
LOS ANGELES — Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center has broken ground on a $215 million campus expansion and modernization project in downtown Los Angeles. The centerpiece of the project is a 150,000-square-foot patient care tower that will add space, privacy and advanced medical technology, as well as increasing capacity and accessibility for emergency, trauma and maternity services. The first floor of the new tower will house larger, private and state-of-the-art emergency and trauma bays resulting in a 51 percent increase in the number of patient care areas. Additionally, the new tower will feature an enhanced neonatal intensive care unit with private rooms and labor and delivery suites, including midwifery services, antepartum and postpartum services. The expansion will also include a new pediatrics unit on the sixth floor of the existing Tibbitts Tower, an emergency mental health observation center adjacent to the new emergency department and a new multi-level parking structure with meeting and retail space on the ground floor. Completion is slated for 2020, with occupancy in 2021. The campus expansion is being funded through a loan of $165 million from Dignity Health and a capital campaign seeking local philanthropic investment of $50 million.
HOUSTON — The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) will open a $125 million, 240-bed mental health hospital within Texas Medical Center in Houston. Designed by Chicago-based Perkins+Will, the facility will be the largest behavioral health academic center in the nation and the first mental health hospital built in Houston in more than three decades. Completion is slated for late 2021.
MILWAUKEE — Hammes Partners has sold a 23-property medical office portfolio across nine states for $400 million. The Class A properties, totaling 979,000 square feet, are located in Virginia, Washington, North Carolina, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Alabama and Texas. Mindy Berman and Steve Leathers of JLL Healthcare Capital Markets brokered the sale on behalf of Milwaukee-based Hammes. Giant healthcare REIT Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL) was the buyer, according to media reports. “Selling points included the portfolio’s alignment with major health systems, durable income and locations in strong metro markets,” says Berman. Hammes Partners is a private equity platform that invests on behalf of institutional investors, with a focus on the U.S. healthcare real estate market. Toledo, Ohio-based Welltower is a real estate investment trust that mostly invests in healthcare and seniors housing properties. — Kristin Hiller
HOUSTON — New York City-based Madison Realty Capital has provided a $28 million loan for the refinancing of a 191,676-square-foot medical office building located at 1917 Ashland St. in the Heights area of Houston. The Class A property was 95 percent leased at the time of the loan closing to tenants such as St. Joseph Medical Center and CuraHealth. The borrower, a joint venture between two Houston-based medical office developers, will use a portion of the proceeds to fund building renovations and tenant improvements.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Jacobson Properties and Cushman & Wakefield/Pyramid Brokerage Co. have negotiated the $18.9 million sale of Hill Medical Center, an 81,859 square foot medical office building located on the downtown campus of SUNY Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse. Lisa Menin of Jacobson Properties and Leo Jones of Cushman & Wakefield/Pyramid Brokerage Co. represented the seller, Business Venture Associates Limited Partnership, in the transaction. The buyer was a national private equity healthcare investor. Hill Medical Center is 98 percent leased and is anchored by SUNY Upstate University Gastroenterology, Upstate Cancer Center Hematology/Oncology at the Hill, Upstate Cancer Center at Hill Radiation Oncology and St. Joseph’s Hospital Cardiology.
OAK CREEK, WIS. — MBH Investment Real Estate LLC has arranged the sale of the Howell Avenue Professional Building in Oak Creek, about 12 miles south of Milwaukee. The sales price was not disclosed. The 21,024-square-foot building, located at 8375 S. Howell Ave., was originally constructed in 2007 and underwent an addition in 2017. The two-story building is 91.3 percent occupied. Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin-Oak Creek Pediatrics serves as the anchor tenant. Other tenants include Progressive Pediatric Dentists and Wasserman & Shuff Certified Public Accountants. Matson Holbrook of MBH brokered the transaction on behalf of the seller, RW Howell LLC. SEP Oak Creek MOB LLC, an affiliate of Stage Equity Partners, purchased the asset.