SAN ANTONIO — North Carolina-based Oaks Development Group has closed on the land sale for the development of a 95,000-square-foot, Class A medical office building. The new building will be situated on 7.9 acres in the Westover Hills neighborhood of San Antonio; it is part of a mixed-use project currently under development by Great American Co. that also will include a Staybridge hotel, restaurants and retail. Completion of the medical office building is expected in the first half of 2009. Tenants already signed on include Alamo Medical Group and Urology San Antonio; an MRI facility is being planned for the first floor. Sarah Teel of MSL Investments represented Oaks Development in the land purchase, and will handle leasing of the building.
HOUSTON — Groundbreaking has occurred for the $220 million Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, which will be situated on 55 acres within Wolff Cos. Ten Oaks mixed-use development at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Barker-Cypress Road in suburban west Houston. The facility will include a 280,000-square-foot inpatient facility, as well as a 198,000-square-foot outpatient facility with physician offices. David and Mary Wolff donated 10 acres of the site to Texas Children’s Hospital for the development of the new campus. Additionally, The Methodist Hospital System has acquired 86 acres adjacent to Ten Oaks, and will break ground this summer for the $300 million first phase of a hospital and medical office project. Both projects are expected to be complete in 2010.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Nemours, one of the nation’s largest children’s health systems, has acquired 60 acres of land within Lake Nona’s medical city in Orlando to build a pediatric health care facility. The new building, which will be anchored by a 95-bed children’s hospital, is located near the UCF College of Medicine, Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the Orlando Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Skanska USA Building Co. will act as construction manager for the project. Currently involved in planning and designing the facility, Nemours is expected to break ground on the project in 2009, with completion slated for 2012. Nemours will also be a founding partner in the Lake Nona Healthcare Life Science Consortium. The price of acquisition and the projected cost of the facility were not disclosed.
WASHINGTON, MO. — St. Louis-based Paric Corp., acting as design/build contractor, has broken ground on a $30.4 million expansion of Patients First Health Care located at 901 Patients First Dr. in Washington. Two, three-story wings totaling 109,000 square feet will be added onto the existing 85,000-square-foot physician-owned medical facility. When completed, the building will include an ambulatory surgery center, a cancer treatment center, additional physician offices, and expanded retail space and meeting rooms. A three-story parking structure and additional surface parking will complete the project.
NEW YORK CITY — The grand opening has been held for the $220 million Michael F. Price Center for Genetic and Translational Medicine/Harold & Muriel Block Research Pavilion. Located within the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in the Bronx, New York City, the five-story facility contains 40 laboratories, research support facilities and a 100-seat auditorium. Payette Associates served as project architect, and Tishman Construction Co. provided construction management services.
PASADENA, CALIF. — McCarthy Building Companies Inc. has completed its fourth major project for Huntington Memorial Hospital. Designed by Pasadena-based HDR Inc., the $170 million West Tower is the final phase of the hospital’s master-planned development. The six-story, 237,734-square-foot tower offers 128 private patient care rooms, including 32 acute care beds; a pharmacy; a cafeteria; and an expanded clinical laboratory. Additionally, McCarthy completed structural upgrades on the existing lobby, patient bridge and pedestrian tunnel in compliance with Senate Bill 1953, which requires seismic upgrades for all acute care facilities.
MINNEAPOLIS — Kraus-Anderson Construction Co. is set to break ground on an 185,000-square-foot children’s hospital building for the University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview’s Riverside campus in Minneapolis. The building will consolidate the hospital’s pediatric specialty care units currently located in a variety of settings within the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Tsoi/Kobus & Associates and Hammel Green and Abrahamson Inc. are designing the project. The new building is slated for completion in 2011.
EXETER, N.H. — Concord, N.H.-based North Branch Construction has completed Exeter Reach Dental Clinic on behalf of Exeter Hospital. The new 12,066-square-foot facility is located at 23 Hampton Rd. in Exeter. It features four dental offices and two oral surgery rooms, as well as x-ray, laboratory, dental cleaning and recovery areas. The parking lot and driveway of the property was constructed out of a porous pavement that stores and filters stormwater runoff before it enters the groundwater system.
GRANBURY, TEXAS — Arlington, Texas-based Ascension Group Architects has been awarded the contract to design the approximately $15 million expansion of Lake Granbury Medical Center located in Granbury. Initial plans call for the construction of a third floor to the two-story building, which will add 24 patient rooms. Additional construction will include another operating room, a new cardiac services area, renovations to the outpatient surgery area, an expansion of the surgical support area, a new front entrance with a covered drop-off area and upgrades to the parking lot. The project will include 21,000 square feet of new construction and 4,500 square feet of renovations. Construction is likely to begin in late July and is expected to take approximately 12 months to complete.
CHICAGO — Patrick Caruso and Miraya Vlacho of L.J. Sheridan & Co. have represented The Chicago Catholic Archdiocese in the 99-year ground lease of 155 E. Superior St. in Chicago to Children’s Memorial Hospital. U.S. Equities’ Martin Stern represented Children’s Memorial Hospital in the $18 million lease transaction.