MILWAUKEE — Healthcare Trust Inc. has acquired Aurora Health Center in Milwaukee for $6 million. The 25,466-square-foot outpatient facility and surgical center is 95 percent leased to subsidiaries of Aurora Health Care. Completed in 2000, the property is less than one mile from Aurora’s flagship 882-bed hospital, St. Luke’s Medical Center. Ben Appel, Evan Kovac, Andrew Milne, Anthony Frogameni, Matt DiCesare and Jaime Fink of HFF marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Atkins Cos.
PENNSBURG, PENN. – Colliers International has arranged the sale of a commercially zoned land located at the southwest corner of Pennsylvania Route 663 and Northgate Boulevard in Pennsburg. PB Northgate purchased the 7.2-acre property, which is approximately 17 miles south of Allentown, for $2.1 million. The buyer plans to develop a medical office building and retail pad site on the land parcel. Derek Zerfass of Colliers International’s office in Allentown, Penn., represented the undisclosed seller, while Markward Group represented the buyer in the transaction.
GREEN BAY, WIS. — Stage Equity Partners LLC has acquired St. Mary’s medical office building in Green Bay for $7.3 million. The 50,000-square-foot property is fully leased to St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center and operates under the Prevea Health brand as well as St. Gianna Clinic. The asset is located at 1727 Shawano Ave., directly across from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center. Considered part of the hospital campus, the property offers heart care, physical and occupational therapy, behavioral healthcare, fertility care and other specialty services. Stage purchased the asset from its longtime physician owner with a new 10-year lease extension. MB Financial provided acquisition financing.
JOLIET, MORRIS AND NEW LENOX, ILL. — Avison Young has brokered the sale of a four-building, 74,422-square-foot medical office portfolio in suburban Chicago. The sales price was not disclosed. The properties include: 2614 W. Jefferson St. and 254 Republic Ave. in Joliet; 668 Cedar Crossing Drive in New Lenox; and 1600 W. Route 6 in Morris. All four buildings are fully leased to national healthcare tenants. Erik Foster and Mike Wilson of Avison Young represented the seller, a partnership of physicians associated with Joliet Oncology–Hematology Associates Ltd. The buyer was Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Healthcare Trust.
CLEVELAND — Cleveland-based KeyBank Real Estate Capital has arranged $118.7 million in financing for a 20-property medical office portfolio located across 12 states. The borrower, Healthcare Trust Inc., will use the loan to refinance existing debt, facilitate new acquisitions and for general corporate purposes. Charlie Shoop and Joe DeRoy of KeyBank arranged the 10-year loan, which features a fixed interest rate of 4.5 percent. Details of the lender and the properties were not disclosed.
EAST HARTFORD, CONN. — O,R&L Commercial has negotiated the sale of a 30,544-square-foot, former medical building in East Hartford for $1.5 million. The buyer, Ash Street Holdings LLC doing business as KIA of East Hartford Inc., plans to completely renovate and expand the building, which is located at 99 Ash St. After renovations, Kia of East Hartford will move from its current location, 540 Connecticut Blvd. Jay L. Morris and Luke Massirio of O,R&L Commercial represented the seller in the transaction, Ash Realty Associates LLC. Colliers International represented the buyer. The vacant property was built in 1981 and is the former home of UCONN Health.
PRAIRIE DU SAC, WIS. — American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Co. LLC, the co-sponsors of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV Inc., have acquired the Sauk Prairie medical office building in Prairie du Sac near Madison for $19.5 million. Built in 2014, the 55,000-square-foot building is currently fully leased to multiple healthcare service providers. Sauk Prairie Healthcare occupies 59 percent of the property, which is connected to the 36-bed Sauk Prairie Hospital. Chris Bodnar and Lee Asher of CBRE represented the seller, Sauk Prairie MOB LLC. As of this acquisition, the REIT has purchased a portfolio of 43 medical office buildings, seniors housing facilities and skilled nursing facilities for an aggregate contract purchase price of approximately $508 million.
CHICAGO — The Boulder Group has arranged the sale of a single-tenant property, net leased to Fresenius Medical Care in Chicago, for $4.4 million. The 9,396-square-foot building is located at 9924 S. Vincennes Ave. Fresenius, which provides renal services via its dialysis facilities, has 15 years remaining on its lease. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of Boulder represented the seller, a Midwest-based real estate development company. A West Coast-based real estate investment firm was the buyer.
PEARLAND, TEXAS — Zeller Realty Group, a Chicago-based development and investment firm, has acquired a 276,770-square-foot biotechnology facility in Pearland, a southern suburb of Houston. Completed in 2017, the facility is located approximately eight miles south of The Texas Medical Center. The property was fully leased at the time of sale to Lonza America Inc., a Houston-based subsidiary of Swiss pharmaceutical company Lonza Group AG. Jeff Hollinden and Cameron Cureton of HFF represented the buyer and the seller, Pinchal & Co., in the sale and arranged acquisition financing through Bank of Texas.
HOUSTON — United General Hospital has signed a 44,569-square-foot medical office lease within the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The healthcare provider will operate out of 7501 Fannin, a 195,000-square-foot, Class A building that was completed in 2004. Zach Leger, Jacob Aldridge and Rani Jones of NAI Partners represented the landlord, Cambridge Properties, in the lease negotiations. David Greenberg of Greenberg & Co. represented United General Hospital.
