ORANGE TOWNSHIP, OHIO — NexCore Group LLC has broken ground on a 130,000-square-foot, integrated ambulatory care center for Mount Carmel Health System in Lewis Center, an unincorporated community of northwestern Orange Township. The site for MC Fitness & Health is located at 7100 Graphics Way. The three-level center will provide outpatient care, fitness, wellness education and rehabilitation facilities. In addition to housing primary care and specialty physicians with the Mount Carmel Medical Group, the facility will also provide approximately 20,000 rentable square feet of medical office space for independent physicians. Construction on the project is set for completion in October 2015. Denver, Colo.-based NexCore Group is the developer and is the owner of the project. OLC Architecture is providing architectural services. Elford Inc. is the construction manager and NexCore Properties LLC will manage the property.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) has recently designated five Duke Realty-owned and managed medical office buildings in Florida as BOMA 360 Performance Buildings. The five facilities, which are located on hospital campuses in Central Florida, include: Celebration Medical Plaza, Kissimmee Medical Plaza, East Orlando Medical Surgical Plaza, Sebring Medical Pavilion and the Wesley Chapel Wellness Center. The BOMA 360 Performance Program recognizes commercial properties that demonstrate best practices in building operations and management, according to BOMA.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Hammes Co. has delivered the latest phase of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital campus in Greensboro. The 230,000-square-foot expansion is comprised of a surgical suite, 16 operating rooms, a loading dock and a six-story patient tower with 96 private beds. The emergency department capacity was also extended to 79 treatment stations, including 17 designated for pediatric emergency care. The next phase for Cone Health’s campus is the opening of an expanded central energy plant. In addition to Hammes Co., the development team includes architect Perkins + Will, engineer Affiliated Engineers Inc., general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie and civil engineer/landscape architect Stimmel Associates PA.
SAN DIEGO — Sharp Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation Center, a 14,172-square-foot rehab facility in the San Diego submarket of Kearny Mesa, has completed a $6.4-million renovation. The facility is located at 2999 Health Center Drive. The renovation transformed the inpatient wing into a modern healing environment, with more private rooms that contain in-suite bathrooms and showers, updated administrative areas and hallways and an expanded outdoor therapy gardens. The center provides rehabilitation services for patients who have suffered catastrophic strokes, brain and spinal cord injuries, neurological issues, sprains, strains and other injuries, and problems related to balance, speech, lymph edema and chronic pain. The design-build renovation was carried out by McCarthy Building Companies and designed by Cuningham Group Architecture. The companies worked in collaboration with Sharp Healthcare.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. — Caddis Partners LLC has acquired Gwinnett Medical Building, an 81,627-square-foot medical office building located at 575 Professional Drive in Lawrenceville, a northeast suburb of Atlanta. The five-story property is adjacent to Gwinnett Medical Center-Lawrenceville, Gwinnett Health System’s flagship hospital campus. The medical office building houses primary care, ophthalmology, neurology, nephrology, pediatric orthopedics, rehabilitation, laboratories and a pharmacy. Gwinnett Health System comprises a significant portion of the in-place tenancy. The transaction was financed with equity funded internally by Caddis and debt provided by GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services. Erik Tellefson and Dan Eppley of GE Capital originated the loan. Caddis has tapped Atlanta-based PMRG to handle leasing services for medical office facility.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Arrowhead Health Center, an 11,272-square-foot, net-leased property in Scottsdale, has sold to a limited liability company for $4.5 million. The center is located at 2629 North Scottsdale Road. Mark Ruble and Jamie Medress of Marcus & Millichap’s Phoenix office, represented both the buyer and seller, another LLC, in this transaction.
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Morristown-based G.S. Wilcox & Co. has arranged $87.1 million in financing for a healthcare portfolio in eastern Pennsylvania. The non-recourse financing was place in seven, non-crossed collateralized loans secured by nine hospital and medical buildings. The tenant, Coordinated Health, is a privately held, physician-owned, specialized hospital, network healthcare provider. The nine-building portfolio consists of 411,000 square feet. The portfolio includes Allentown Hospital and Bethlehem Hospital and seven additional buildings housing a variety of medical services, including physical therapy and rehabilitation, laboratory, orthopaedics, diagnostics, sports medicine, primary care and women’s health. David Fryer and Joe Smerdon of G.S. Wilcox & Co. handled the financing assignment. The financing, which was placed with a CMBS lender, has a 10-year term and a 30-year amortization.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA — Darland Construction Co. has completed a new 28,000-square-foot clinic for Alegent Creighton Health in Council Bluffs, approximately seven miles east of Omaha. The clinic, located at 31st and West Broadway, opened in April. The single-story, free-standing facility includes reception and office spaces, 42 exam rooms and three nurse stations, a physical therapy treatment area and an on-site pharmacy. Leo A. Daly was the architect for the project.
GERMANTOWN, MD. — NexCore Group LLC, a national healthcare developer, has broken ground on a 79,491-square-foot medical office building on the new Holy Cross Health hospital campus in Germantown, an unincorporated municipality roughly 20 miles northeast of Bethesda. The new facility is located within the Hercules Pickney Life Sciences Park on the Montgomery College campus. Holy Cross Health hospital is slated to open in October. NexCore is building the medical office building to LEED Silver certification standards, with high efficiency air handling units, lighting control system and a green roof. The asset is one of three healthcare facilities around the country that NexCore is developing for CHE Trinity Health.
TAMPA, FLA. — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Duke Realty have opened the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital Primary Care Annex, a 106,000-square-foot VA clinic in Tampa. Duke Realty developed the two-story property at 13515 Lake Terrace Lane in the Hidden River Corporate Park at Interstate 75 and Fletcher Avenue. The property features a women’s center, radiology, mental health services and dental services. The VA leases the facility from Duke Realty. The facility was designed by Minneapolis-based Hammel, Green and Abrahamson.