Healthcare

DETROIT — Queen Lillian Development has plans to construct the Midtown Professional Building, a $30 million medical office building at the corner of Mack and Woodward avenues in Midtown Detroit. The partnership, which includes developers Jim Jenkins and Chris Jackson, says that a retail tenant, a medical practice and a dental practice have expressed interest in locating to the 75,000-square-foot, five-story facility, which will include a 280-car parking garage. Construction is slated to begin in August.

SPRINGFIELD, MO. — CoxHealth is moving forward with plans to build a $130 million, 310,000-square-foot patient tower that will connect to the northwest portion of Cox Medical Center South in Springfield. The nine-story tower will house a women and children’s hospital, a neuroscience hospital and includes 80 patient beds and room for future expansion. The additional beds in the tower will allow Cox South to transition its semiprivate rooms to private rooms. The Beck Group, based in Dallas, will design the facility. A general contractor has not been chosen. CoxHealth plans to break ground in May with a goal of opening the new tower by Thanksgiving 2014.

INDIANAPOLIS AND DETROIT — Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc. has acquired three medical office buildings in Indianapolis and Detroit as part of a five-building, $46 million purchase throughout the United States. The properties include the 44,000-square-foot Riverview Medical Arts Building in Noblesville, Ind., a northwest suburb of Indianapolis; and the 94,000-square-foot Eastern Michigan Medical Office Building Portfolio, which includes Keystone Medical Center and West Oaks Medical Office Building in Novi and West Bloomfield, Mich. Riverview Medical Arts Building was acquired from an entity affiliated with Cornerstone Cos. Inc. Eastern Michigan Medical Office Building Portfolio was acquired from entities affiliated with RSM Development and Management. The other two medical office buildings in the deal include the 28,000-square-foot St. Anthony North Medical Office Building II in Westminster, Colo., a northern suburb of Denver; and the 45,000-square-foot Ultima at Eagles Landing in Stockbridge, Ga., located about 20 miles south of Atlanta. Newport Beach, Calif-based American Healthcare Investors facilitated the acquisition on behalf of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc.

SPRINGFIELD, MO. — McCarthy has broken ground on a $28 million rehabilitation hospital for Mercy and Centerre Healthcare . The 63,000-square-foot, two-story rehab hospital is located across the street from the Mercy Orthopedic Hospital Springfield site in Springfield. Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Springfield will include 60 beds and provide inpatient rehabilitation for patients who are recovering from strokes, brain or spinal cord injuries, amputations, complex orthopedic injuries and other conditions. Construction is slated for completion in early 2014. Indianapolis-based Duke Realty Corp. will own the building. Nashville, Tenn.-based Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. is the project architect. Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Springfield is a partnership between Mercy and Centerre Healthcare Corp.