PHILADELPHIA — California-based Ensemble Real Estate Investments has acquired a trio of life sciences buildings within Philadelphia’s Navy Yard for $83 million. The properties total 366,803 square feet and are occupied by WuXi Advanced Therapies Inc. Ensemble, which has five offices across the country, now owns five life sciences buildings totaling approximately 550,000 square feet within the Navy Yard. The seller(s) was not disclosed.
ST. LOUIS PARK, MINN. — Davis has unveiled plans to develop the 78,000-square-foot Xchange Medical building in St. Louis Park, a western suburb of Minneapolis. Ear Nose & Throat Specialty Care and Surgical Care Affiliates will anchor the three-story, Class A medical office building. The two tenants will occupy 60 percent of the project, which will include a covered patient drop-off area, a healing garden and a total of 324 parking spaces. Xchange Medical will be built on a 4.6-acre site that Davis assembled from four separate parcels that currently house vacant office and warehouse buildings, an auto repair shop and a parking lot. Davis has owned the parcels since 2015. The buildings will be demolished to make way for the project, which the St. Louis Park City Council unanimously approved in August. Davis expects to break ground in October with completion slated for late 2021.
OAK BROOK, ILL. — MedProperties has received approval from the Oak Brook Village Board of Trustees to build a 78,000-square-foot medical office building within Oak Brook Commons, the $500 million redevelopment of the former McDonald’s campus in suburban Chicago’s Oak Brook. The seven-story outpatient facility will be known as Oak Brook Commons Medical. Plans call for a lobby area, immediate care clinic, comprehensive imaging suite and 281 covered parking spaces. Medical specialties will be determined at a later date to meet the needs of the community. The larger Oak Brook Commons development will be built in three phases, encompassing retail, restaurants, office, 72 condominium units, 250 apartment units, a 252-room hotel and a park. The medical office building will be part of Phase I with a completion date expected in 2022. Antunovich Associates is the project architect.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Atlantic Health Systems has signed a 37,030-square-foot healthcare lease at Bridgewater Medical Building, a 95,000-square-foot property located at 1125 Route 22 W. in the Northern New Jersey city of Bridgewater. A joint venture between regional developer Atkins Co. and Capital Solutions Inc. acquired the building, which formerly served as the regional headquarters of Bank of America, in 2017. Bryn Cinque and Jim Bailey of Colliers International represented Atlantic Health Systems, which serves approximately 5 million people across 11 counties in New Jersey, in the lease negotiations.
HARRISONVILLE, MO. — Montecito Medical Real Estate has acquired Rock Haven Medical Mall in Harrisonville, about 35 miles south of Kansas City. The purchase price was undisclosed. The two-story, 76,000-square-foot medical office building is attached to Cass Regional Medical Center and was built in 2011. In addition to Cass, other tenants include Harrisonville Family Medicine, Carondelet Health Cardiology, Cass Regional Orthopedics, Gillen Pharmacy and Fresenius Medical Care.
CYPRESS, TEXAS — Denver-based developer NexCore Group has broken ground on North Cypress Physician Office Building III, a 110,374-square-foot medical office building in the northwestern Houston suburb of Cypress. The four-story property will be located at 10425 Huffmeister Road on the HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress campus. The facility is expected to open to the public in approximately one year.
NEW YORK CITY AND WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dwight Capital, a private commercial real estate lender based in New York City, has acquired Love Funding, the Washington, D.C.-based HUD lending subsidiary of Midland States Bank. As a result of this acquisition, Dwight Capital claims it is now the largest dedicated HUD multifamily and healthcare financing firm in the nation. The Love Funding platform will be integrated within Dwight Capital’s existing operating structure. Midland States Bank will retain the existing Love Funding servicing portfolio. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Locally based provider Englewood Health will open a 53,222-square-foot medical office at 2 Journal Square, a 325,000-square-foot building in Jersey City. The space will include medical offices for orthopedics, pain medicine, primary care, diabetes, OB/GYN, cancer, cardiology, pulmonology, urology and colorectal surgery. In addition, there will be onsite urgent care, breast screening and imaging, an infusion center and a laboratory. Greg Barkan, Remy deVarenne and Sam Bernhaudt of CBRE represented Englewood Health in the 15-year lease agreement. GAIA Real Estate owns the building and recently completed a multimillion-dollar renovation of it.
GREENVILLE, EASLEY AND SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. — Stan Johnson Co. has arranged the $30.5 million sale-leaseback of a four-property medical office portfolio in Upstate South Carolina. The properties are situated at 5 Stevens St. and 601 Halton Road in Greenville, 220 S. Pendleton St. in Easley and 1 Colony Centre Way in Simpsonville. Teresa Lovely and Jeff Matulis of Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller and tenant, Jervey Eye Group, which executed long-term leases at the time of sale. Indiana-based Cornerstone Cos. Inc. acquired the portfolio, which was built between 2000 and 2018.
By Ethan Garner, CCIM, senior vice president & regional lead, JLL As consumers rapidly adapt to technology, the footprint of the standard clinic is likely to adapt with it. Almost all clinics are requiring online check-in right now, and some are even requiring patients to wait in their cars until they are ready to be seen in an exam room. The waiting room has suddenly become an unnecessary place to store chairs and magazines. Contactless check-in and check-out procedures will affect the design of the administrative areas. It’s possible these functions could be reduced dramatically in size or removed entirely and outsourced. We believe we speak for nearly every consumer of healthcare when we say that there is hope on the horizon in terms of not having to fill out 100 forms every time you step foot in an office. Healthcare providers are understandably preoccupied with managing this crisis, fighting rising costs and curbing declining revenues. These trends will all be worth watching as they unfold over the next six to 12 months and as providers look to leverage technology to reverse that trend in a big way. If providers can increase the profit centers within the clinic — the …
