EL PASO, TEXAS — In a $40 million sale-leaseback transaction, REIT Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC) has acquired a 77,000-square-foot hospital and 40,000-square-foot medical office building in El Paso. The facilities are occupied by Foundation Surgical Hospital, which as part of the deal signed a new 15-year, absolute net lease for the hospital and a new five-year, triple net lease for the office building. Foundation Surgical Hospital is a joint venture owned by more than 60 physicians and Foundation Surgical Hospital Affiliates LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Graymark Healthcare Inc.
OAK BROOK TERRACE, ILL. — Loyola University Medical Center has signed a new 54,000-square-foot lease at Oak Brook Terrace Medical Center in metro Chicago. The health system will expand its presence at the medical office building by adding a 10,700-square-foot primary care clinic. Construction of the project is slated for completion by November. Oak Brook Terrace Medical Center is located at 1S224 Summit Ave. in Oak Brook Terrace, about 20 miles west of downtown Chicago. Holladay Properties provides leasing and property management services for the 92,000-square-foot, two-building medical campus owned by Nashville-based HCP Inc. Jeffrey Fischer of NAI Hiffman represented Loyola in the transaction, and Brian Dolehide of Holladay Properties represented HCP. Holladay Properties is also providing construction management services for the project.
PHOENIX — CNL Healthcare Properties has purchased six medical facilities throughout the U.S. for $59.5 million. Four of these facilities are located out West. They include the John C. Lincoln Medical Plaza I and II and North Mountain Medical Plaza in Phoenix, as well as Escondido Medical Arts Center in the San Diego submarket of Escondido. The Phoenix properties contain a total of 73,666 square feet. They are leased to multiple tenants, including John C. Lincoln/Scottsdale Health, which occupies about 45 percent of the buildings. The 49,302-square-foot Escondido Medical Arts Center in Escondido is an outpatient medical office building that is leased to tenants like Graybill Medical Group.The Phoenix properties will be managed and leased by Holladay Properties’ healthcare division. The San Diego facility will be managed by Lincoln Harris CSG, an affiliate of Lincoln Property Company.The remaining properties are located in Ohio and Kansas. The portfolio contains a total of 181,890 square feet throughout a mix of single- and multi-tenant buildings.
CLEVELAND AND KANSAS CITY, KAN. — CNL Healthcare Properties has acquired five medical office buildings and one specialty hospital for $59.5 million. The properties are located in the Cleveland; Kansas City, Kan.; San Diego, Calif.; and Phoenix metropolitan areas. The 181,890-square-foot portfolio includes Cleveland Clinic Chestnut Commons Medical Office Building in Elyria, Ohio; Doctors Specialty Hospital Medical Office Building in Leawood, Kan.; The John C. Lincoln Medical Plaza I and II and North Mountain Medical Plaza in Phoenix.; and Escondido Medical Arts Center in Escondido, Calif. The properties in Ohio, Kansas, and Phoenix will be managed and leased by the healthcare division of Holladay Properties.
GRANBURY, TEXAS — The Sanders Trust, a Birmingham, Ala.-based medical real estate development company, has broken ground on a new $8.7 million medical office building in Granbury, approximately 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth. The facility will house the orthopedics, outpatient radiology, cardiology and sports medicine departments of Lake Granbury Medical Center, a Community Health Systems-affiliated hospital. The 41,000-square-foot space is slated for completion in June 2014. Dallas-based Skiles Group will serve as general contractor on the project, Ascension Group Architects will design, and Cadence Bank will finance.
PHOENIX — CNL Healthcare Properties has purchased six medical facilities throughout the U.S. for $59.5 million. Four of these facilities are located out West. They include the John C. Lincoln Medical Plaza I and II and North Mountain Medical Plaza in Phoenix, as well as Escondido Medical Arts Center in the San Diego submarket of Escondido. The Phoenix properties contain a total of 73,666 square feet. They are leased to multiple tenants, including John C. Lincoln/Scottsdale Health, which occupies about 45 percent of the buildings. The 49,302-square-foot Escondido Medical Arts Center in Escondido is an outpatient medical office building that is leased to tenants like Graybill Medical Group. The Phoenix properties will be managed and leased by Holladay Properties’ healthcare division. The San Diego facility will be managed by Lincoln Harris CSG, an affiliate of Lincoln Property Company. The remaining properties are located in Ohio and Kansas. The portfolio contains a total of 181,890 square feet throughout a mix of single- and multi-tenant buildings.
HARLINGEN, TEXAS — Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT Inc. has acquired the Valley Baptist Health System’s Health and Wellness Center Property in Harlingen for $10.28 million. The property, built in 2007, totals 38,111 square feet and is in close proximity to Valley Baptist Medical Center, the largest hospital in a 50-mile radius. Harlingen is approximately 30 miles east of the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metro area and 10 miles north of the Mexican border. Carter Validus, a non-traded REIT, is a vehicle of Carter & Associates that focuses on data center and healthcare assets.
BEVERLY HILLS, MICH. — Bernard Financial Group has secured a $2.2 million loan for the Corners Office Building, a 17,250-square-foot medical office property located in Beverly Hills, a suburb approximately 20 miles northwest of Detroit. Kevin Kovachevich of Bernard Financial originated the loan for the borrower, The Corners Professional Office Building LLC. The lender was Symetra Life Insurance Co.
HOUSTON — Colliers International has arranged the lease of 26,950 square feet in Houston’s Beltway 8 Office Center to Haven Behavioral Services of Houston LLC. The new facility, which will focus on geriatric psychiatric services, is Haven’s second location in Houston and ninth nationwide. The company is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. Walter Menuet, L. Ace Schlameus, Laura A. Schlameus, Ryan Byrd and Jenny Seckinger of Colliers represented the landlord in the transaction, while David Boyles and Stan Young of Medical Real Estate Inc. represented the tenant.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Skanska has signed a $130 million contract with Novartis for the expansion of its pharmaceutical research campus in Cambridge, about three miles west of Boston. Novartis, a pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, is an existing client of Skanska. The initial work on the project began in 2012 and the expansion will be completed in 2015.