TYLER, TEXAS — Alabama-based Johnson Development will build a VA Outpatient Clinic in Tyler, a city located about 100 miles east of Dallas. BL Harbert is the general contractor for the project, which is expected to carry a construction timeline of 16 to 22 months. Gabriel Silverstein and Louis D’Lando of SVN | Angelic structured and placed construction financing for the project, which will be developed as part of a quintet of VA Outpatient Clinics in Texas, Florida, Michigan and Missouri that will collectively span more than 303,000 square feet.
WINONA, MINN. — Kraus-Anderson has completed the conversion of an 86,000-square-foot former Kmart store in Winona into healthcare space. The building, located at 1122 U.S. Highway 61, is now part of Gundersen Health System’s Winona campus. The building had been vacant since 2014. Set to open May 18, the primary care clinic will offer family and internal medicine, pediatrics, women’s health and imaging services. The facility will also house physical and occupational therapy as well as an eye clinic. HSR Associates Inc. designed the project.
DUMFRIES, VA. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the $19.3 million sale of Dumfries Health Center, a 99,718-square-foot, single-tenant medical office building in Dumfries. The property is fully leased to Spectrum Healthcare Resources. The building was delivered in 2009 at 3700 Fettler Park Drive, two miles north of downtown Dumfries and adjacent to Interstate 95. The previous owner, known as 3700 Fettler Park LLC, recently implemented upgrades that included adding urgent care, immunizations, sports medicine with wading pools and expanding the onsite pharmacy. Robert Filley, Randall Heilig, Chandler Pace and Chris Dale of IPA represented the seller in the transaction and procured the buyer, Bethesda, Md.-based Global Medical REIT.
SAN DIEGO — An Orange County, Calif.-based pain management group has purchased Richley Medical Plaza, a medical office building in San Diego’s Midway District, for $6 million. Dan Henry and Lars Eisenhauer of CBRE represented the seller, a private investor, in the deal. Located at 3434 Midway Drive, the 25,600-square-foot building was originally built in 1991. The two-story property includes a 6,475-square-foot surgery center that features three operating rooms, a recovery area, waiting room, reception room and two restrooms. At the time of sale, the building was 85 percent vacant.
LAS VEGAS — Colliers International | Las Vegas has arranged the sale of a medical office space located within Smith Surgery Center at 8871 W. Sahara Ave. in Las Vegas. Mia Aesthetics LV Realty acquired the asset from Smith Building LLC for $2.6 million. The asset offers 7,569 square feet of medical office space. Stacy Shapiro and Alexia Crowley of Colliers represented the seller in the deal.
PARAMUS, N.J. — Holt Construction, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have constructed a 100-bed temporary hospital in Paramus, a northwestern suburb of New York City. The facility was built in a large parking lot adjacent to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center and is intended for acute, non-COVID-related patients due to the influx of COVID-positive patients to the main building. The temporary hospital consists of two tent structures, each equipped with 50 beds, an admissions bay, nurse stations and six bathrooms with showers, as well as storage and other auxiliary space. The construction team completed the facility in less than two weeks. As of May 4, the New Jersey Department of Health reported 128,269 positive cases of the virus and 7,910 deaths.
CHICO, CALIF. — Washington, D.C.-based Easterly Government Properties has purchased a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic in Chico. Terms of the transaction, including acquisition price and name of the seller, were not released. Chico is home to the largest state veteran population in the country, according to the buyer. The facility is part of the Northern California Health Care System and is a built-to-suit clinic that was completed in mid-2019. The property was designed to achieve a LEED Healthcare Silver certification. The property is leased to the VA for an initial, non-cancelable lease term of 15 years until June 2034. The clinic provides a variety of medical and ancillary services including primary care, audiology, laboratory services, mental health, nutrition, otolaryngology (ENT), a pharmacy, social work and women’s health. The facility is located adjacent to the Chico VA Readjustment Counseling Service Center. Easterly Government Properties is a fully integrated real estate investment trust focused primarily on the acquisition, development and management of Class A commercial properties leased to the U.S. government.
BLUE ISLAND, ILL. — Clark Construction Group, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has completed the transformation of the MetroSouth Medical Center, a shuttered hospital just south of Chicago, into an alternate care facility to treat COVID-19 patients. Located in Blue Island, the facility now features 585 beds, including 265 high-acuity beds for critically ill patients. Clark completed the project in 22 days. The project team also included architect Perkins and Will, engineer Salas O’Brien, Hill Mechanical, Titan Electric, RG Construction and Consolidated Flooring. The MetroSouth Medical Center closed in late 2019.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Magellan Health, a Fortune 500 healthcare provider based in Phoenix, has signed an 8,000-square-foot lease at The Offices Two at Frisco Station on the northern outskirts of Dallas. VanTrust Real Estate developed the 210,000-square-foot speculative property, which now has more than a third of its space leased to healthcare providers. The building is 75 percent leased overall. VanTrust has begun preleasing The Offices Three at Frisco Station and expects to complete that project in early 2021.
NEW YORK CITY — Houlihan-Parnes Realtors LLC has arranged a $3.5 million refinancing loan for a 10,302-square-foot medical office building in The Bronx. Located a 3440-3448 Boston Road, the single-tenant building is leased to a provider of dialysis services. An undisclosed lender provided the nonrecourse loan, which carries a 3.9 percent fixed interest rate for seven years and a 30-year amortization schedule. Ed Graf of Houlihan-Parnes arranged the loan for the undisclosed borrower.