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.
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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.
NorthMarq Capital Arranges $91.5M in Refinancing for Medical Office Portfolio in New Jersey, New York
by Amy Works
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — NorthMarq Capital’s Morristown office has arranged $91.5 million in refinancing for a 13-property medical office portfolio with 11 assets in Northern New Jersey, one in New York and one in Florida. Gregory Nalbandian of NorthMarq secured the financing for the borrower, Regent Medical Properties. The five-year, fixed-rate loan was bifurcated between a $81.5 million senior loan placed with Natixis Real Estate Capital and a $10 million mezzanine loan placed with Morrison Street Capital. The portfolio is a 353,000-square-foot core medical office portfolio with several buildings featuring on-site surgery centers within close proximity to major hospitals.
OKLAHOMA CITY — CBRE’s U.S. Healthcare capital markets group has brokered the sale of a 62,857-square-foot medical facility in Oklahoma City fully leased to Lakeside Women’s Hospital. Tampa-based Carter Validus Properties II LLC purchased the asset from Physicians of Northwest Oklahoma Investment Group LLC for an undisclosed price. Jason Little of CBRE’s Oklahoma City office teamed with Chris Bodnar and Lee Asher of CBRE’s U.S. Healthcare capital markets group to market the asset on behalf of the seller. Situated on five acres, the inpatient medical facility is located at 11200 N. Portland Ave.
BEAUMONT, TEXAS — UT Physicians has leased 12,000 square feet for a retail health center at Gateway Shopping Center in Beaumont. The property is located at the intersection of Stagg Drive and College Street. Nelson Spitz represented the landlord, Lombard Texas Holdings, and Mark Davis of Davis Commercial Real Estate represented UT Physicians. UT Physicians is the clinical practice of The University of Texas Medical School in Houston.
DERBY, KAN. — CBC Real Estate Group will develop a $40 million community hospital in Derby, a suburb of Wichita. Rock Regional Hospital, a 65,000-square-foot, 30-bed general acute care hospital with a surgical emphasis, will be situated north of Patriot Avenue and west of Rock Road in the proposed Sales Tax and Revenue (STAR) Bond District at the north end of Derby. The project will also include an adjacent 40,000-square-foot medical office building. Rock Regional Hospital will feature 12 inpatient medical beds, 12 surgical beds and six intensive care unit beds, as well as three operating rooms, two procedure rooms, three cath lab rooms and three emergency department rooms. Southlake, Texas-based Candor Healthcare will operate the hospital upon completion. Kansas City, Mo.-based CBC anticipates construction will begin this year, with Rock Regional Hospital fully operational by 2018.
HOUSTON — McCarthy Building Cos. has begun construction on a facility for Texas Children’s Hospital that will house the hospital’s pediatric and residents’ primary care group clinic. The project includes the demolition of existing interior space and construction of a 20,000-square-foot facility. When completed in November, the building will include a waiting area, exam rooms, nurses’ stations, administrative offices, staff lounge, storage, radiology and ultrasound space and a work room. Preston Hodges and Mike Kacal lead McCarthy’s specialized solutions group, which focuses on healthcare, laboratory and higher education interior renovation projects.
CHICAGO — Giant healthcare REIT Ventas (NYSE: VTR) has agreed to acquire all the life sciences and medical real estate assets of Wexford Science & Technology for $1.5 billion. Wexford will continue to operate the portfolio, which includes 25 Class A properties totaling 4.5 million square feet. Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII LP is the current owner of the properties, which are largely leased to universities, academic medical centers and research companies. Tenants include Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Washington University in St. Louis, Wake Forest University and Alexion Pharmaceuticals. Of the 25 properties, 23 are currently in operation and are 97 percent leased. The remaining two properties are currently under development and are nearly 60 percent pre-leased to Duke University and Wake Forest University. Chicago-based Ventas also plans to acquire nine development sites contiguous to the existing assets for $50 million. The purchase will significantly diversify Ventas’ portfolio, as the company’s previous focus was almost exclusively on seniors housing and healthcare properties. Ventas has the second-largest portfolio of seniors housing in the United States with 785 properties totaling 69,708 units, according to the American Seniors Housing Association’s most recent numbers. The transaction includes a long-term management …
ROCHESTER HILLS, MICH. — American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Corp., the co-sponsors of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV Inc., have agreed to buy a medical office building in Rochester Hills for an undisclosed price. The 30,000-square-foot facility is approximately 93 percent leased to seven tenants, the largest of which is William Beaumont Hospital. An undisclosed seller disposed of the property located approximately 30 miles north of Detroit.