ROME, GA. — The Cirrus Group has arranged a $12.75 million construction loan for a 53,000-square-foot acute care hospital to be located on the Floyd Medical Center campus in Rome. The 45-bed property will be operated by The Specialty Hospital LLC, which has leased 85 percent of the building. The Specialty Hospital currently operates a facility in the main hospital on Floyd's campus, and the move will allow Floyd room to expand. Brasfield & Gorrie will construct the building, which is expected to take 1 year. Earl Swensson Associates designed the hospital. Chris Jackson and Peter Phillips of Cirrus secured the loan, which was funded by Mutual of Omaha.
MISHAWAKA, IND. — The new Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center has opened in Mishawaka. Located on the 90-acre Edison Lakes Medical Campus, the 663,000-square-foot hospital and 155,000-square-foot medical office building serves the Northern Indiana region. The $224 million replacement facility offers 254 hospital beds, an emergency department, an imaging center, 16 operating rooms and inpatient units, including maternity, pediatrics, neonatal intensive care, medical, surgical and intensive care. HOK provided architectural services for the project.
BURR RIDGE, ILL. — Construction is under way for Burr Ridge Medical Center, which is located at 6800 N. Frontage Road in Burr Ridge. Sterling Bay Cos. is developing the three-story, 105,575-square-foot medical office building. Completion of the building’s core and shell is scheduled for September, with Loyola University Health System slated to take occupancy of the first two floors in February 2011. Project partners include Proteus Group, Lindsay & Associates, Jacob & Hefner Associates and David R. McCallum Associates.
SARTELL, MINN. — Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II has entered into an agreement to acquire the Center for Neurosurgery and Spine, a two-building, 36,600-square-foot medical office complex located at 162 19th St. South in Sartell. Build in 2006 and situated on 3.7 acres, the property is fully leased to five tenants, including Central Minnesota Neurosciences, the Center for Pain Management and Central Minnesota Center for Diagnostic Imaging. Terms of the acquisition agreement were not released.
PELL CITY, ALA. — Hoar Construction and Goodgame Co. will begin construction this summer on the 76,000-square-foot St. Clair Replacement Hospital for St. Vincent's Health System. The new building, located near Interstate 20 in Pell City, will replace the current structure, which was built in 1968. The 16-acre property will encompass 40 patient beds, a surgery department, outpatient services and a dietary department. A 45,000-square-foot medical office building is also being planned. Delivery of the hospital is slated for fall 2011.
NEW YORK CITY — Massey Knakal Realty Services has brokered the sale of an approximately 7,440-square-foot medical office building located in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, for $2.6 million. The building, which is situated at 370 Bay Ridge Parkway, contains eight units and approximately 2,400 square feet of development rights. In addition, the sale included a 4,650-square-foot land parcel that will be used as a parking lot. Matthew Giordano, Stephen Palmese and David Simone of Massey Knakal handled the transaction between the undisclosed seller and the buyer, a physician who will also serve as the main tenant of the building.
RICHMOND, TEXAS — The Houston office of Cadence McShane Construction Co. has topped out construction for OakBend Doctors Center – Southwest Freeway, a 60,000-square-foot medical office building located in Richmond. The new building is situated at the intersection of Southwest Freeway and Williams Way, and it will serve the adjacent OakBend Medical Center, a 90-bed acute care hospital that opened this past August. The three-story OakBend Doctors Center will offer medical office suites ranging in size from 1,200 square feet to a 17,000-square-foot full floor. Completion is scheduled for spring. Denver-based Marasco & Associates is providing the conceptual design for the project, and Seeberger + Associates is serving as the architect of record.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Healthcare Trust of America has purchased a 108,500-square-foot medical office building from an undisclosed party for $16.25 million. The property is located on the Spartanburg campus of Mary Black Memorial Hospital. Mary Black Health System has leased 65 percent of the building through 2018.
CHICAGO — Reed Construction has completed a medical build-out at Rush University Medical Center, which is located at 1611 W. Harrison in Chicago. The build-out included the installation of waste piping and steel re-enforcements for future tenants at the building. Rush University Medical Center is an academic medical center that includes a 671-bed hospital, the 61-bed Johnston R. Bowman Health Center and Rush University. Proteus Group provided architectural services for the project.
MISSION VIEJO, CALIF. — McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. recently completed construction of the $153 million Patient Care Tower at Mission Hospital at the southeast corner of Crown Valley Parkway and Medical Center Road in Mission Viejo. Designed by Los Angeles-based RBB Architects Inc., the new four-level patient tower features a patient-centered design along with next-generation advancements in healthcare technology and seismic building safety. McCarthy also built an underground tunnel and a 175-foot-long pedestrian bridge that connects the new facility with the main hospital building on the third floor.