MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Baylor Scott & White Health, a not-for profit healthcare system, along with Duke Realty, an Indianapolis-based commercial real estate developer, have begun developing the 75,000-square-foot, three-story Baylor McKinney II medical office building (MOB) at 5252 W. University Drive in McKinney. The MOB will be located on the Baylor Medical Center at McKinney campus adjacent to Baylor McKinney I, a 114,924-square-foot MOB which opened in 2012. Baylor McKinney MOB II is expected to be complete in September 2016. The Dallas office of Medco Construction is the general contractor for the project, and the Dallas office of HDR is the architect.
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DETROIT — The Henry Ford Health System has begun planning a new $110 million cancer center as part of its $500 million expansion and improvement of 300 acres in Detroit. The 144,000-square-foot cancer center will be five stories and include a rooftop garden and skywalk to connect it to Henry Ford Hospital. Completion is slated for summer 2018. Site planning for the facility will be completed by the end of the year. Groundbreaking is slated for spring of 2016. The cancer center will anchor Henry Ford Hospital’s South Campus expansion project. The 10- to 15-year vision for the expansion project includes adding green space and commercial, retail and housing developments. Clinical and support services for each type of cancer diagnosis will be located on the same floor in the new facility, offering a multidisciplinary experience to patients. Surgery will continue to be performed at Henry Ford Hospital. The facility will be funded by internal and philanthropic support.
DALLAS — Chicago-based healthcare real estate investment company Stage Equity Partners LLC has purchased a 37,000-square-foot, multi-tenant medical office building in Carrollton, a northern suburb of Dallas. The property is Stage Equity’s fourth medical office acquisition in Dallas and its fifth overall in Texas. The single-story, Class A building was acquired in an off-market transaction from the physician owners of OrthoTexas, an orthopedic practice based in Dallas. As part of the transaction, OrthoTexas leased back the majority of the building under a long-term lease. MetroCrest Surgery Center — a joint venture between USPI, Baylor Scott & White Health and Tenet Health — leases the remainder of the building for the operation of an ambulatory surgery center. American Momentum Bank provided financing for the project. The property, located at 4780 North Josey Lane isfully leased. OrthoTexas has 27 physicians and more than 250 employees, and MetroCrest is a prominent surgery center in the region. The property is within 10 minutes of Baylor Carrollton Hospital and Texas Health Resources Presbyterian Plano Hospital.
El Paso is a thriving community with active investments across the area ranging from redevelopment of its downtown to new infrastructure across the city. Notable for being the safest city in the Unites States, El Paso is the sixth largest city in Texas and a vital part of one of the largest borderplex metropolitan economies in the world. The city is the focal point of more than $88 billion of the $530 billion annual trade between the United States and its third largest trading partner, Mexico. But trade isn’t the only industry thriving in El Paso, other sectors such as education and healthcare continue on a strong path forward given stable population growth and a significant military base. The City of El Paso has a population just over 679,000. Its metropolitan statistical area, composed of El Paso County and the more recently added Hudspeth County, is home to over 837,000 individuals. The area is projected to grow to nearly 863,000 residents by 2016. Historically, El Paso is among the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the nation with an average growth per decade of 21 percent from 1960 to 2010. According to a recent report by the UTEP Border Region Modeling Project, …
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — An affiliate of Princeton, N.J.-based IBIS Plaza has acquired Larchmont I, a medical office building located at 204 Ark Road in Mount Laurel, for an undisclosed price. Situated on 1.8 acres, the building was constructed in 1981. The buyer plans to renovate the common areas and two of the vacant suites for its IBIS business. Evan Zweben and Marc Islander of Colliers International represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
GUILFORD, CONN. — O,R&L Commercial has brokered the lease of 13,517 square feet of medical office space to Guilford Surgery Center LLC (GSC). The space is located at 246 Goose Lane within Innovation Park. GSC is a collaboration between local surgeons and Merritt Healthcare of White Plains, N.Y. The new entity plans to construct an ambulatory surgery center for patients on the site. O,R&L Commercial represented the tenant, while Dow Realty represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease transaction.
CHICAGO — Angelic Real Estate and CGA Capital have completed a $21.5 million financing for portions of the new Presence St. Joseph Ambulatory Care Center in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. The new facility is currently being built by Milwaukee-based Hammes Co. Upon its completion this fall, the facility will house additional Presence St. Joseph operations, other medical and related tenants, and parking. New York City-based Angelic Real Estate is an investment banking and brokerage firm with more than $6 billion in experience nationally and internationally. CGA Capital is a source for real estate net lease and credit-based financing nationwide.
DALLAS — Dallas-based Henry S. Miller Cos. has arranged three medical office leases totaling approximately 19,000 square feet in North Texas. Transactions include the lease of 5,738 square feet to KRK Research Group at Arlington Medical Plaza located at 801 Road to Six Flags in Arlington; the lease of 4,453 square feet to Liberty At Home Dialysis at Red Bird Office Park located at 5565 Red Bird in Dallas; and the lease of an 8,790-square-foot medical clinic to GDC Partners at Avalon Town Center in Glandbury. Jim Turano of Henry S. Miller Cos. represented the landlord of Arlington Medical Plaza, Liberty At Home Dialysis and GDC Partners in the three separate transactions. John Pelitier and Dave Cochran of E. Smith Realty represented KRK Research Group; Andrew Gilbert of Holt Lunsford represented the landlord of Red Bird Office Park, 5565 Red Bird LP; and Kornel Romada of NAI Robert Lynn represented the landlord of Avalon Town Center, WREE Avalon LLC, in the lease negotiations.
HATTIESBURG, MISS. — Colliers International has brokered the $66.5 million sale of The Orthopedic Institute, a medical office complex located at 27 Veterans Memorial Drive in Hattiesburg. The complex comprises a two-story, 73,750-square-foot orthopedic hospital and a three-story, 63,944-square-foot medical office building. Forrest Health occupies the hospital, and Southern Bone & Joint Specialists PA occupies the medical office building. The hospital was sold for $39.3 million to an undisclosed institutional investor, and the medical office building was sold to a separate undisclosed institutional investor for $27.2 million. Josh Randolph of Colliers International’s Birmingham office represented the sellers, Pointe Properties LLC and Southern Development Resources, in the transactions.
NEW YORK CITY — Madison Realty Capital has provided $107.2 million in first mortgage financing for the first phase of Fortis Property Group’s acquisition of the Long Island College Hospital (LICH) real estate portfolio in Brooklyn. Collateral for the loan is a mix of former LICH properties comprising 357,000 square feet of retail, medical office and residential space, as well development sites. The properties are located at 91-95 Pacific St., 350-352 Hicks St., 349 Henry St., 112 Pacific St., 82 Amity St., 84 Amity St., 124-134 Atlantic Ave., 113 Congress St., 336 Flatbush Ave. and 184 Sterling Place. Madison Realty provided Fortis with a flexible financing solution to facilitate the acquisition, which is the culmination of a complex, multi-party deal related to the LICH portfolio. David Harte of Ackman-Ziff represented Fortis in the transaction.