BREVARD, N.C. — UNC Health Pardee, a health system managed by UNC Health that operates hospitals and clinics in Western North Carolina, has broken ground on a 39,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project in downtown Brevard. The developers behind the project include Riddle Development LLC, Layr LL and Osprey Capital. The team acquired the property, a 1960s-era retail strip center, for $2.6 million. Medalist Capital and United Community Bank are providing construction financing for the redevelopment, which is anticipated to cost $15 million in renovations. Upon completion, the new medical office building will feature 48 exam rooms for primary care services, a retail pharmacy, specialty rotation services, a 50-person conference and community room and a 300-person waiting room and event space. UNC Health Pardee plans to take occupancy in January.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Kessler Rehabilitation Center will open a 125,000-square-foot office and clinic at the Harborside mixed-use campus in Jersey City. The space spans the top two floors of Building 6 and can support creative office, production studio, medical and retail uses. Jamie Drummond, Dan Reider and John Crawford of Newmark represented the landlord, American Equity Partners, in the lease negotiations. A tentative opening date was not announced.
FALLS CHURCH, VA. — Advantage Capital has closed on the financing for Telestar Court, a $51 million office-to-residential conversion project in Falls Church, a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. The developer is a joint venture between Conifer Realty and Joseph Browne Development Associates. Set for completion in spring 2027, the redeveloped site will deliver 80 apartments (36 one-bedroom and 44 two-bedroom) for low- to moderate-income residents earning 30 percent and 80 percent of the area median income (AMI). The property was formerly a medical office building. Advantage Capital leveraged $15 million in low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs) in connection with the Virginia Housing Opportunity Tax Credit (HOTC) program to help fund the conversion project.
MIDLAND, MICH. — MyMichigan Health has opened a new cancer center in Midland, a city in central Michigan. Hord Coplan Macht (HCM) designed the 111,000-square-foot facility, which is situated on a 225-acre wooded campus. HCM helped convert two aging medical office buildings into a modern care center through complete gut renovations, saving $12 million. The center consolidates services that were previously spread out across four buildings, including oncology, infusion, women’s health and support services. The project incorporates nature-infused architecture throughout its design.
SWEDESBORO, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $2.5 million sale of a 10,193-square-foot medical office building in the Southern New Jersey community of Swedesboro. Completed in 2008, the building at 100 Lexington Road was fully leased at the time of sale, with Inspira Health serving as the anchor. Mark Krantz and Derrick Dougherty of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were locally based entities that requested anonymity, in the transaction.
WETHERSFIELD, CONN. — New Jersey-based financial intermediary Cronheim Mortgage has arranged $7.5 million in financing for a 55,000-square-foot medical office building in Wethersfield, located just south of Hartford. The building at 1260 Silas Deane Highway was completed in 1960 and renovated in 1999 and is leased to affiliates of Starling Physicians and Hartford HealthCare Medical Group. Brandon Szwalbenest, Dev Morris and Andrew Stewart of Cronheim arranged the loan through an undisclosed local lender. The sponsor is an affiliate of Connecticut-based Phoenix Realty Management.
BATESVILLE, MISS. — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. (MMCC) has arranged a $13.3 million loan for the refinancing of Progressive Health of Batesville, a rural emergency hospital located at 303 Medical Center Drive in Batesville, a city in northern Mississippi. The full-service hospital offers emergency medicine, surgery, women’s health, children’s health, intensive outpatient care, outpatient radiology, rehabilitation and wound care services. Steven Rock of MMCC’s Westchester, N.Y., office secured the financing with a national credit union service organization on behalf of the borrower, a national investment company that invests in credit tenant, double-net and triple-net lease properties. The five-year loan includes an 8.5 percent interest rate with a 30-year amortization period and a 75 percent loan-to-value ratio.
WETHERSFIELD, CONN. — New Jersey-based financial intermediary Cronheim Mortgage has arranged $6.2 million in financing for a 40,000-square-foot medical office building in Wethersfield, located just south of Hartford. The building at 1210 Silas Deane Highway was developed in 2022 as a build-to-suit for Starling Physicians, Connecticut’s largest physician-led multispecialty medical group. Brandon Szwalbenest, Dev Morris and Andrew Stewart of Cronheim arranged the 25-year loan through an undisclosed local bank. The sponsor is an affiliate of Connecticut-based Phoenix Realty Management.
SAN DIEGO — PSRS has arranged a $10 million loan for the refinancing of Mercy Medical, a medical office building in San Diego. Built in 1979 and renovated in 2017, the seven-story, multi-tenant building features 86,288 rentable square feet. James Mulvihill, Kevin Mulvihill and Alexander Santulis of PSRS secured a nonrecourse, interest-only loan with flexible prepayment terms through one of PSRS’ correspondent life insurance company lenders for the undisclosed borrower.
WENTZVILLE, MO. — McCarthy Building Cos. has broken ground on Mercy Hospital Wentzville, a 400,000-square-foot hospital in Wentzville, a far west suburb of St. Louis. The project marks Missouri’s first new acute care hospital campus in nearly a decade, according to McCarthy. The development will include 75 inpatient acute care beds and a 26-bed emergency department with two trauma areas and four behavioral health rooms. The advanced medical campus will offer a broad range of inpatient and outpatient care, including surgical and specialty options such as cardiovascular, cancer and orthopedics as well as outpatient imaging, diagnostic and treatment services. Crews began preparing the site in late March and will begin work on the central utility plant this summer, with the hospital tower work beginning in early 2026. Construction of the hospital is expected to be completed in four years. The project team includes CannonDesign for architecture and design and IMEG as engineer. Mercy is one of the 15 largest U.S. health systems.