BETHESDA, MD. — Capital One Healthcare has provided a $37.8 million loan to CNL Healthcare Properties for a five-property healthcare real estate portfolio in the Triangle region of North Carolina. The portfolio comprises the North Carolina Specialty Hospital in Durham and four medical office buildings in Roxboro, Oxford and Chapel Hill. CNL Healthcare Properties, a non-traded seniors housing and healthcare REIT, is using the loan to refinance the portfolio, which it purchased in June 2015.
HUNTLEY, ILL. — Hammes Co. and the Centegra Health System will open the $230 million, 128-bed Centegra Hospital-Huntley on Tuesday, Aug. 9. Hammes began developing the hospital, located approximately 50 miles northwest of Chicago, in February 2014. In addition to general medical and surgical services, the hospital also features a cardiac catheterization lab, two Level II trauma rooms, a Family Birth Center, a special care nursery and a helipad for critical Flight for Life situations. Centegra Hospital-Huntley created 800 construction jobs and 1,000 permanent jobs. Power Construction was the general contractor, and Kahler Slater was the architect of record. Korda/Nemeth Engineering provided engineering services.
NEWARK, DEL. — Skanska USA will build a $178 million Women and Children’s Health Building for Christiana Care Health System. The facility, to be located in Newark, is slated for completion in January 2020. The eight-story, 387,500-square-foot facility will serve as an expansion to the existing labor, delivery and C-section facility on the Christiana campus. Skanska USA is the general contractor for the project. Work on the site has already begun. The building will feature a neonatal intensive-care unit with private rooms and sleep-in space for families; new and expanded labor and delivery suites; a new labor lounge; private rooms for families after delivery; an expanded triage area; separate admitting and discharge areas; and a continuing care nursery for babies born with health issues. The facility will also offer lab, pharmacy and dietary clinical and support services. The project will also include the expansion of an existing four-level parking garage “Together with Christiana Care Health System and HKS Architects, we will complete a major expansion that provides the Christiana Medical Staff with the resources and space that is required to deliver the highest quality care to patients and their families,” says Ed Szwarc, executive vice president and general manager for New …
EL PASO, TEXAS — Medistar Corp. has completed construction on Medical Plaza 1, a four-story, 110,000-square-foot medical office building located in El Paso on The Hospitals of Providence Transmountain Campus. Located at Resler and Transmountain drives, the new campus is anchored by a 108-bed hospital, which can be expanded to 140 beds and will serve as the new teaching hospital for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC). In conjunction with Medistar, TTUHSC El Paso and The Hospitals of Providence are collaborating on the multi-million dollar teaching hospital to open in early 2017 and immediately adjacent to Medical Plaza 1. HKS is the architect for Medical Plaza 1, and Robins & Morton is the general contractor.
VIDALIA, GA. — Love Funding has secured a $74.4 million loan through HUD’s 242/223(a)(7) loan insurance program for the refinancing of Meadows Regional Medical Center, a 22-acre hospital in Vidalia. The hospital’s owners, Toombs County Hospital Authority, used the refinancing to cut the interest rate by more than half, saving more than $1.5 million a year in debt-service costs, or more than $30 million over the life of the loan. Originally constructed in 1963, the hospital was expanded in 2011 to include a 194,000-square-foot healthcare facility. Meadows Regional offers 64 private patient suites, 20 emergency treatment rooms and six surgical suites, along with a cardiovascular lab. In the past five years, HUD’s 242 program has insured financing for $2.2 billion of hospital projects across the country.
MOKENA, ILL. — Capital One has provided an $11.9 million acquisition loan for a 28,000-square-foot medical property in Mokena, approximately 40 miles southwest of Chicago. MedProperties Holdings LLC acquired the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, which features four operating rooms, a 14,000-square-foot surgery center and a 5,350-square-foot recovery center. The seller and terms of the loan were undisclosed.
SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. — Marin County officials have broken ground on MGH 2.0, the $535 million replacement for Marin General Hospital in the Greenbrae submarket of San Rafael, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. The original hospital opened in 1952. It will continue to operate throughout the construction process. Phase I of MGH 2.0 will include two new towers that house 114 private rooms, an expanded emergency department and six new operating/procedural suites. The buildings will feature rooftop gardens, balconies and natural light in every patient room to support a healing environment for patients and families. The new facilities are scheduled to open to patients in mid-2020. Once Phase I is complete, work will commence on a five-story, 100,000-square-foot ambulatory services building and a second parking structure. The project team has already completed MGH 2.0’s first parking facility, a five-level structure with rooftop solar panels that will be functional for both the current and future hospitals. McCarthy Building Cos. is building the hospital, which Perkins Eastman designed. The hospital is represented by Vertran Associates, which specializes in healthcare capital projects and provides project management. — Nellie Day
CHICAGO — Capital One has provided a $33.6 million loan for the acquisition of four medical office buildings near Chicago. A joint venture between Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and MedProperties Group purchased the assets. The seller in the transaction was undisclosed. The portfolio of properties includes the 51,632-square-foot Lockport Crossing in Lockport; the 22,467-square-foot Dryer Medical Clinic in Batavia; the 62,808-square-foot Arlington Heights Medical Center in Arlington Heights; and the 17,374-square-foot Batavia Medical Campus II in Batavia.
ATLANTA — Brand Properties plans to develop Northside Midtown Medical, a 12-story, 170,000-square-foot medical office building in Midtown Atlanta. Located at 1130 W. Peachtree St. near 13th Street, the Class A building will be anchored by Northside Hospital, which will operate the Northside Imaging Center, primary care offices, cardiology services and an urgent care outfit at the property. Brand Properties plans to deliver Northside Midtown Medical in mid-2018. Northside is a healthcare delivery system with three not-for-profit hospitals in Atlanta, Cherokee County and Forsyth County and more than 150 outpatient services across Georgia.
AUSTIN, DALLAS and CONROE, TEXAS — Alabama-based Sanders Trust has acquired three medical facilities in Texas for $115.5 million. The three facilities, located in Austin, Dallas and Conroe, are inpatient rehabilitation hospitals operated by affiliates of Birmingham’s HealthSouth. Together, they total 192,000 square feet. The Austin location includes 75 licensed beds, Dallas has 50 and Conroe has 60, according to the Houston Business Journal. Medical Properties Trust sold the hospitals in a joint venture transaction with Chicago-based capital partner Harrison Street Real Estate. JLL Healthcare Capital Markets represented Medical Properties Trust in the sale. First Tennessee Bank, Iberia Bank, Synovus Bank and Renasant Bank provided acquisition financing on behalf of Sanders Trust.