ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Inland Real Estate Acquisitions Inc. has acquired the Kleiman/Evangelista Eye Center, a 27,500-square-foot medical office building located at 350 E. Interstate 20 in Arlington. Built in 2015, the center is the only one of the practice’s three locations provides patients with same-day surgicare and expanded treatments beyond Lasik surgery. The company, which is the purchasing arm of The Inland Real Estate Group of Cos. Inc., also helped broker the sale.
SAN ANTONIO — Dallas-based private equity firm Velocis has acquired Legacy Oaks, a 224,262-square-foot, Class A medical office adjacent to the 900-acre South Texas Medical Center in San Antonio. The seven-building complex, which recently underwent capital improvements, was 75 percent leased at the time of sale to healthcare providers such as Baptist Health System and MEDNAX.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Everson Developments is building a 51,000-square-foot, Class A medical office property at 123 Vision Park Blvd. in The Woodlands. The three-story building will be situated on 3.5 acres with access to several nearby hospitals, including Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital and Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital. Construction is expected to be complete by the end of 2018. The J. Beard Co. is handling preleasing of the building
BROCKPORT, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a medical office building located at 6668 Fourth Section Road in Brockport. A REIT acquired the asset from an undisclosed developer for $8.7 million. Unity Hospital of Rochester leases the entire 29,497-square-foot building on a long-term, triple-net basis. Ryan Moore and Christopher Mitchel of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and secured the buyer in the deal. Additionally, John Krueger of Marcus & Millichap assisted in the closing.
TEHACHAPI, CALIF. — A joint venture between Bernards and Colombo Construction has completed construction of the new $90 million Adventist Health Medical Center Tehachapi Valley hospital, the only critical-access remote facility within a 50-mile radius to the rural Tehachapi and Mojave communities. The acute care facility replaces an outdated hospital that no longer met California safety standards. The hospital includes medical/surgical beds, intensive care beds and an obstetrical unit (labor and delivery/post and ante partum), as well as a complete emergency services department, anesthesia services, a radiology/imaging center, a clinical laboratory, diabetic services space, a pharmacy and nearly 16,000 square feet for administrative offices. Public spaces include indoor/outdoor seating that flows into a healing and wellness garden. SWA Architects designed the project.
LEAGUE CITY AND THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Colliers International has arranged the sale of two healthcare facilities in metro Houston. Beth Young of Colliers represented the seller in the disposition of South Shore Surgicenter, a 7,365-square-foot ambulatory surgical center and diagnostic clinic located at 2622 Marina Bay Drive in League City. Elena Bakina of Colliers represented Integra Plaza LLC in its sale of a 14,573-square-foot medical office and surgery center located at 3072 College Park Drive in The Woodlands. Sales prices were not disclosed for either transaction.
SILVER SPRING, MD. — Avison Young has negotiated the $24 million sale of Forest Glen, a 62,379-square-foot medical office building situated on the Holy Cross Hospital campus in Silver Spring, roughly six miles north of Washington, D.C. Jim Kornick, Chip Ryan, Mike Wilson, Erik Foster and Mark Johnson of Avison Young arranged the sale on behalf of the buyer, Healthcare Realty. The Nashville-based REIT purchased the asset from a joint venture between Washington, D.C.-based developer Foulger-Pratt and a global investment firm.
HOUSTON — Dallas-based Scott & Reid General Contractors plans to renovate Museum Medical Tower, a 177,476-square-foot medical office tower located at 1213 Hermann Drive on the north side of the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The $10 million renovation plan includes upgrading the building’s façade, main entrance, roof and landscaping. The overhaul will also deliver systems upgrades and three new suites ranging from 1,700 to 2,244 square feet in size.
BATTLE CREEK, LAKE ORION AND WASHINGTON, MICH. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of three medical office buildings in Michigan for nearly $30 million. Brookside Medical Center, totaling 46,194 square feet, is located in Battle Creek, about 25 miles east of Kalamazoo. Brookside Surgery Center anchors the building. Bald Mountain Medical Complex, totaling 55,591 square feet, is located in Lake Orion, about 40 miles north of Detroit. St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trinity Health, anchors the building. The 37,425-square-foot Orchard View Medical Complex is located in Washington, about 35 miles north of Detroit. Henry Ford Health System, which offers urgent care, orthopedic/family medicine services, on-site pharmacy and oral surgery services, has anchored the building since construction was completed in 2008. Seth Haron and Ashish Vakhariya of Marcus & Millichap marketed the three properties for sale on behalf of the various sellers.
The Houston healthcare sector has gotten off to a slow start in 2017. Financial concerns are impacting several healthcare systems as they adapt to a changing marketplace. Industry challenges such as increasing technology costs, as well as changes in payer mixes and reimbursement rates, have impacted organizations’ operating models as a whole. While the majority of organizations have effectively adjusted or are adapting to the change, companies such as CHI St. Luke’s Health, Adeptus Health Inc. and Foundation Healthcare have not fared as well, resulting in a sluggish start to the year. In late March, CHI St. Luke’s announced another round of layoffs, stating that it would eliminate more than 459 jobs and an additional 161 vacant positions statewide. This is the fourth round of layoffs CHI has announced over the previous two years as the company continues to struggle with lower patient volumes, reduced reimbursement via Medicaid and Medicare, and increased technology-related operating costs. Adeptus Health, a freestanding emergency room operator with more than 29 Houston-area locations, appears to be headed for bankruptcy, having announced in March that it would be hiring a restructuring chief. Adeptus has grown rapidly over the past several years, initially opening facilities that lacked …
