POMONA, CALIF. — Pacific Medical Building is developing an outpatient care center for the Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona. Located on East Second Street, the three-story, 68,000-square-foot Patient Care Center will accommodate multi-disciplinary teaching, clinics and office space. Additionally, the center will feature a pharmacy, optometry clinic, an outpatient dental clinic and an attached seven-level parking structure. Completion is slated for this fall.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Cranbury, N.J.-based Sweetwater Construction Corp. has commenced construction for Morris County Surgical Center, located at 3695 Hill Rd. in Parsippany. The 12,000-square-foot ambulatory surgery center will feature three operating rooms, two endoscopy rooms and 8,000 square feet of offices. The project consists of the complete interior and exterior renovation of an existing office building at the site. Completion is scheduled for June. The facility will be owned by Morris County Surgical Center and managed by Ambulatory Management LLC. It is being developed by Hill Road Properties LLC. Sweetwater is providing pre-construction and construction management services, and Old Tappan, N.J.-based Robert Zaccone & Associates is serving as project architect. The project marks the 15th surgical center that Sweetwater has built in New Jersey in the past 5 years.
SAN MARCOS, CALIF. — Newport National Corp. is currently developing Nordahl Medical Centre, a Class A medical condominium project in San Marcos. Located at 838 Nordahl Rd., the three-story, 55,450-square-foot building features suites ranging in size from 1,000 to 55,450 square feet on floor plates of approximately 19,000 square feet. TSA Contracting Inc. is serving as general contractor for the project, which was designed by McArdle Associates Architects. Bank of America provided financing for the project. Completion is slated for May. Mark Avilla and Matty Sundberg of Grubb & Ellis|BRE Commercial are the exclusive marketing and sales team for the center.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Orlando-based Tilt-Con Corp. has broken ground on the $11.5 million Florida District 9 Medical Examiner’s Office. The property is located at 2350 E. Michigan St. in Orlando and encompasses a morgue, a classroom, offices and training areas. Sanford, Fla.-based Wharton-Smith is serving as construction manager of the LEED-certified project, which was designed by Orlando-based MRI Architectural Group. Delivery is expected in September.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS – Brookfield, Wis.-based Hammes Co. has been selected to manage and lease an approximately 500,000-square-foot healthcare portfolio for CHRISTUS Spohn Health System, which is part of CHRISTUS Health. The portfolio comprises 12 medical office buildings located in the Corpus Christi area. Hammes will manage the portfolio from its recently opened office in Corpus Christi. CHRISTUS Health currently controls more than 40 hospitals and medical facilities located in six states, as well as in Mexico.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Choate Construction has broken ground on the 28,000-square-foot SCRA MUSC Innovation Center – Charleston, a renovation and expansion of an existing historic property in Charleston’s industrial area. The center, which is located 2 miles from the Medical University of South Carolina campus, will feature biomedical research and lab space, administrative offices and a police substation. Choate will replace the roof, outfit the interior with new fixtures and fire-suppression systems and restore the façade to its original brick. The development is part of a larger plan to create a biomedical research hub in the city. Completion is expected this winter.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Two medical centers have recently opened at Turner Development Corp.’s Medical Park at Riverwalk in Riverside. Loma Linda University Health Care has opened a state-of-the-art ophthalmology center at the park, and Riverside Regional Pain Center, which offers cutting-edge interventional pain management, has also opened. Loma Linda University Health Care is located on the first floor of 4244 Riverwalk Parkway, which is part of the two-building, 72,000-square-foot second phase of the medical park. Riverside Regional Pain Center is located at 4234 Riverwalk Parkway in Suite 120. Mike Kendall of Turner Development is spearheading the leasing and sales efforts for the second phase of Medical Park at Riverwalk.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Boston-based Colliers Meredith & Grew has arranged $10.5 million in construction financing for 90 Plain Street, a four-story, 39,775-square-foot medical office building located in downtown Providence. At the time of closing, the property was fully leased to Women & Infants Hospital; it is located adjacent to the Women & Infants Hospital campus, as well as Rhode Island Hospital. David Douvadjian and Thomas Welch of Colliers’ Capital Markets Group originated the loan on behalf of an entity related to Atlantic Management. It carries a 10-year term and a fixed interest rate. The lender was Middlesex Savings Bank.
BOSTON — Children’s Hospital Boston recently notified the Boston Redevlopment Agency of its plans to add a 103,000-square-foot expansion to the campus. The project is estimated to cost more than $100 million. The proposed 14-story building will expand the hospital’s 369,000-square-foot main building on Binney Street in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston. The project will expand the emergency room, radiology department, create a larger operating floor and add three inpatient bedrooms. Construction will begin pending approval.
MIAMI — Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Moss & Associates has commenced construction of the 84,670-square-foot Leon Medical Centers-Flagler. The property, located at 150 N.W. 79th Ave. in Miami, will deliver in November. The four-story hospital will exclusively cater to Medicare patients. Coral Gables, Fla.-based MGE Architects designed the building.