ST. LOUIS, MO. — A $5.8 million renovation for the eighth floor of the Shoenberg Pavilion on the Barnes-Jewish Hospital north campus is under way. The 23,000-square-foot project will be be completed in four phases. The project will create a new 25-bed patient division while relocating an Intensive Care Unit to a different location on the eighth floor. McGrath & Associates is the general contractor and construction manager on the project, which is slated for completion in May 2013. OWH Inc. is the architect.
DALLAS — Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT has acquired the 62,000-square-foot Baylor Medical Center, located at 3500 Gaston Ave. in Dallas, for $31 million. The medical center has been open for operation since January 2011, and features 24 in-patient beds, six operating suites, a four-room emergency department and an imaging suite equipped with X-ray, CT scanning and MRI capabilities.
COLLEGE STATION AND MARBLE FALLS — Duke Realty plans to develop two medical office buildings in College Station and Marble Falls for Scott & White Healthcare. Duke will develop a three-story, 66,500-square-foot Scott & White Specialty Care Clinic at the Wayne & Eileen Hurd Regional Medical Center at the intersection of U.S. Highway 281 and State Highway 71 in Marble Falls. The facility will house multiple primary care, urgent care and specialty/diagnostic clinics. Duke will also develop an adjacent 60-bed hospital. In addition, Duke will also develop a four-story, 120,000-square-foot College Station Clinic at the campus of a planned 143-bed acute care hospital at the intersection of State Highway 6 and Rock Prairie Road in College Station. The hospital will house OB/Gyn services, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, expanded rehabilitation/therapy services and a sleep center. The Marble Falls clinic is expected to open in the first quarter of 2013 and the adjacent hospital is slated for a fall 2014 opening. The College Station clinic is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2013. Pasadena, Calif.-based Jacobs Engineering Group is designing both clinics, DPR Construction is the general contractor for the Marble Falls clinic and Kitchell Contractors is the general …
MCKINNEY — Baylor McKinney Physician Office Building I (POB), a four-story, 115,000-square-foot medical center located at 5236 W. University Drive in McKinney, has opened to the public. The facility is connected to the 95-bed acute care Baylor Medical Center at McKinney. POB houses Baylor Women's Imaging Center, Texas Oncology, Texas Digestive Disease Consultants, North Texas Colon & Rectal Surgeons, Baylor Family Medicine at McKinney, Women's Medical Associates of North Texas, Advanced Kidney Care of North Texas, Brinkman George & DeShazo Family Practice and McKinney OB/Gyn, as well as several other physician practices. Dallas-based RTKL designed the property and Dallas-based MEDCO Construction was the general contractor. POB was financed, developed, owned, managed and leased by Duke Realty.
OREGON, OHIO — PREMIER Design + Build is constructing a 10,636-square-foot medical building at 333 Dustin Road in Oregon, a suburb of Toledo, Ohio. The center will be located within one mile of Mercy St. Charles Hospital and two miles of ProMedica Bay Park Hospital. The project includes the construction of medical exam rooms, physician offices and two ambulatory surgery procedure rooms. The building is expected to be complete this November.
LONGVIEW — Arlington-based Ascension Group Architects has begun the expansion and renovation of Longview Regional Medical Center, located in Longview. The 175,000-square-foot expansion includes 100 new acute care rooms, a three-story tower, third and fourth floors to the existing building and space for new physicians. The floors of the existing building will be renovated as well to make room for eight oncology beds on the first floor and moving 15 beds in the skilled nursing unit from the first floor to the second floor. Also, five maternity units will be added to the existing six units, and 13 antepartum/postpartum beds will be added to the existing 17. In the nursery, 10 bassinets will be added to bring the total to 24. The new expansion will also add four triage spaces and a C-section room. Birmingham, Ala.-based Robins & Morton is serving as general contractor for the expansion project, which will be built in phases and is slated for a late 2013 completion.
HOUSTON — Houston-based Baker Katz has purchased a 4,120-square-foot, free-standing property occupied by Southern Dental, located at 310 W. 19th St. in The Heights neighborhood of Houston. The buyer was self-represented while Stewart Waller of Retail Leasing Services represented the seller in the transaction.
SIOUX CITY, IOWA — St. Luke's Health System has broken ground on its Sunnybrook area medical campus in Sioux City. Set to open in 2013, the 86,313-square-foot Sunybrook Medical Plaza will serve as a regional hub for healthcare delivery in the tri-state area. Services will include family practice, urgent care, imaging, cardiology and other specialty clinics. The two-story facility will be situated on 16 acres. The project team includes Irgens as development manager; Eppstein Uhen and Cannon Moss Brygger & Associates as architects; and W.A. Klinger as general contractor.
BLOOMINGTON, MINN. — TRIA Orthopaedic Center has signed a lease for 32,400 square feet of space at 3800 American Blvd. West in Bloomington. The building is located next to TRIA's 100,000-square-foot main facility at 8100 Northland Drive. TRIA, the official service provider for professional Minnesota sports teams for more than 25 years, plans to use the new space for the company's administrative, training and physical therapy functions. Gordie Hampson and Jason Butterfield of Cushman & Wakefield/NorthMarq represented the building owner, Metropolitan Life, in the transaction. Dean Williamson of Frauenshuh Commercial Real Estate Group represented TRIA.
WARREN, MINN. — Kraus-Anderson Construction Co. has started construction of the North Valley Health Center (NVHC), a new $14.7 million primary care hospital in Warren, located 25 miles northeast of Grand Forks, N.D. The 43,889-square-foot facility will be connected to the existing Good Samaritan Society building, which provides senior care services. NVHC received $13.5 million of its funding from USDA Rural Development. The facility is expected to open in late 2013.