SAYVILLE, N.Y. — NAI Long Island has negotiated the $1.6 million sale of a medical office building in Sayville. Located at 160 Middle Road, the 7,300-square-foot property is currently occupied by Long Island Family Medical Group. Gary Pezza of NAI Long Island represented the seller, John A. Zimmerly, M.D., in the transaction. The buyer was 1449 Holdings LLC.
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GILBERT, ARIZ. — Chicago-based MedProperties Group has broken ground on Mercy Medical Commons II, a medical office building located on Mercy Road adjacent to the main entrance of Dignity Mercy Gilbert Medical Center in Gilbert. Designed by Ware Malcomb, the three-story, 56,000-square-foot building will feature a 55-foot high-curved fin wall with integrated steel shade canopies, while the western curved façade will open to parking and a porte-cochere arrival area. The CORE Institute will occupy 20,000 square feet of the property, which is slated for completion in third-quarter 2019. Balfour Beatty US is serving as general contractor for the property. Philip Wurth of Colliers International in Greater Phoenix is serving as the leasing agent for the development, which is MedProperties’ first ground-up development in the East Valley area.
DENVER — Fidelis Healthcare Partners has finalized an agreement to develop Saint Joseph Medical Office Pavilion, a five-story medical office property on the Uptown Denver campus of Saint Joseph Hospital. Situated at the intersection of Park Avenue, Odgen Street and 18th Avenue, the 100,000-square-foot property will have three floors dedicated to Class A medical office space, ground-floor retail and restaurant space, with wellness, fitness and entertainment space on the rooftop. Additionally, the project includes ground-level, covered parking for physicians and an adjacent parking lot for patients, visitors and tenant employees. The new facility is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2020.
DEARBORN, MICH. — Beaumont Health and Universal Health Services (UHS) have formed a joint venture to develop a new $40 million mental health hospital in Dearborn. The partnership also plans to implement Beaumont graduate medical education programs in psychiatry, psychopharmacology and other clinical training opportunities, and expand intensive day programs and outpatient care. Construction is slated to begin in early 2019 on the 150-bed hospital, which will be located across the street from Beaumont Hospital. The facility is expected to open in early to mid-2021. Inpatient mental health services across Beaumont Health will be consolidated into the one location, which will serve adult, pediatric and geriatric patients. Over time, Beaumont plans to implement a comprehensive telemedicine program that will support its nine emergency rooms and other patient care settings across the system.
CHARDON, OHIO — Montecito Medical Real Estate has acquired Chardon Surgery Center in Chardon, about 30 miles northeast of downtown Cleveland. The purchase price was not disclosed. Built in 1998, the nearly 24,000-square-foot medical office and surgery center features three operating rooms, a laser surgery center and a newly built MRI center. Precision Orthopedic Specialties and Kellis Eye Center jointly own the ambulatory center, which occupies one-third of the overall space in the building. The transaction marks Montecito’s 19th acquisition this year.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Dallas-based Caddis has broken ground on Frisco Medical Pavilion, a 34,650-square-foot healthcare facility that will be located in the northeastern Dallas metro of Frisco. The Class A, single-story building is expected to be complete by summer 2019. Texas Health Physicians Group will be the anchor tenant. Two Dallas-area firms, Corgan and Novel Builders, are serving as architect and general contractor, respectively, for the project.
DALLAS AND HOUSTON — Former Trammell Crow Co. and CBRE healthcare executives Kevin O’Neil and Mark Allyn have launched Fidelis Healthcare Partners, a venture that will focus on developing and acquiring healthcare properties. The new company will be affiliated with Houston-based Fidelis Realty Partners Ltd. and will utilize the firm’s existing tools and relationships to align its operations with the growing trend of “retailization of healthcare.” Each founding member has more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate.
CHICAGO — Sterling Bay has purchased the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute in Chicago for an undisclosed price. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago was the seller. The hospital will lease the 119,415-square-foot research center from Sterling Bay until its research operations are fully consolidated at the Simpson Querry Biomedical Research Center in Streeterville in summer 2019. Originally built in 1995, the research center was expanded in 2003. In recent years, Sterling Bay has been one of the most active developers and acquirers within the city. This purchase is the latest of several high-profile recent and pending acquisitions within Sterling Bay’s portfolio of Chicago properties, including Prudential Plaza, Lincoln Yards, the tech campus at 600 W. Chicago, and 875 N. Michigan, formerly known as the John Hancock building.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Capital One has provided an $11 million adjustable-rate loan to Altera Development, a Dallas-based real estate development company. The company used the loan proceeds to acquire a 109,000-square-foot medical office building located on the campus of Mary Black Hospital in Spartanburg. The loan consists of $6.5 million in initial funding, a holdback for tenant improvements/leasing commissions and an earnout.
