Healthcare

LOS ANGELES — Thorofare Capital Inc., a Los Angeles-based affiliate of asset management platform Callodine Group LLC, has provided a $125.9 million loan for a medical office portfolio in greater Washington, D.C. The portfolio comprises eight properties totaling more than 705,000 square feet, the majority of which are situated on or adjacent to hospital campuses. Thorofare Capital provided the three-year, floating-rate loan to the borrower, an investment vehicle managed by Chicago-based Harrison Street. Felix Gutnikov, Jacob Yi and Nicholas Krueger of Thorofare Capital originated the financing. John Nero, Ben Appel, Jay Miele and Michael Greeley of Newmark’s Healthcare Capital Markets Group arranged the loan.

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PITTSBORO, N.C. — UNC Health has acquired a 43-acre parcel within Chatham Park, an 8,500-acre master-planned community located in Pittsboro, roughly 34 miles outside of Raleigh. Development of the parcel, which can accommodate up to 700,000 square feet of medical care facilities, will complement existing UNC Health facilities within Chatham Park. Preston Development is the master developer of the community, which features residences as well as more than 200,000 square feet of office and retail space. A 121-room Hampton Inn hotel is scheduled to open soon, and site development is currently underway for a 34,000-square-foot YMCA facility. UNC Health has not released a development timeline for the healthcare facilities.

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CHICAGO — McHugh Construction has completed a new five-story healthcare facility and medical office for Howard Brown, the Midwest’s largest LGBTQ healthcare organization, in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. The property at 3501 N. Halsted St. offers primary care and dental services. The building, which features 38 exam rooms and 12 dental chairs, is expected to serve 23,000 patients per year. Eckenhoff Saunders was the architect. A two-story lobby features an open staircase that leads to the various offices, exam and consultation rooms located on the second through fifth floors. A Walgreens store and pharmacy occupies the building’s street-level retail space. A rooftop terrace is available for clinic events and functions. Howard Brown developed the project in partnership with Inland National Development Co. McHugh Concrete, a sister company of McHugh Construction, was the concrete subcontractor.

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TORRINGTON, CONN. — Colliers has brokered the sale of 245 Alvord Park, a 37,731-square-foot medical office complex in Torrington, a western suburb of Hartford. Litchfield Hills Orthopedic Associates, an affiliate of Hartford Healthcare, anchors the property. An entity doing business as IJAN 2 CT Realty LLC sold the asset to a partnership between Boston-based Sendero Capital and alternative asset manager Angelo Gordon for $8.1 million. Phil Gagnon, Ian Hunt and John Cafasso of Colliers brokered the deal.

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OAK BROOK, ILL. — A joint venture between Remedy Medical Properties and Kayne Anderson Real Estate has acquired the RUSH Oak Brook Medical Center in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook. RUSH University System for Health sold the property for nearly $71 million, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. The three-story, 93,386-square-foot medical office building and ambulatory surgery center is 99 percent leased by RUSH University System for Health and Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH, a division of OrthoMidwest. Located at 2011 York Road, the property was completed in 2018. Services offered at the facility include physical therapy and rehabilitation; neurosurgery; ear, nose and throat; OB/GYN; dermatology, pain management; gastroenterology; and primary care.

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WHITEHALL, WIS. — Kraus-Anderson (KA) has completed construction of Gundersen Tri-County Hospital, a new hospital and renovated clinic for Gundersen Health System in Whitehall, a small town in western Wisconsin. The new facility replaces the current 60-year-old hospital serving Whitehall, Blair, Independence and surrounding communities. KA also renovated the 17,000-square-foot clinic. Designed by Groth Design Group, the two-story, 68,000-square-foot hospital features 31 private patient rooms, a trauma center and helipad landing zone. Additionally, the project features an ER, imaging, lab, pharmacy, surgical, dietary, rehabilitation and transitional care offerings. A new ambulance and maintenance building is also on the site.

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STERLING, VA. — The Laramar Group has acquired Sterling Medical Plaza, a 35,406-square-foot medical office building located at 46440 Benedict Drive in Sterling, a suburb of Washington, D.C. The investment firm purchased the two-story property via Laramar Medical Properties Fund I for an undisclosed price. The seller was also not disclosed. Built in 1986 and renovated in 2021, Sterling Medical Plaza was 85 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Loudoun Medical Group, INOVA Health and Concentra.

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WOODBURY, MINN. — Montecito Medical has acquired a 32,711-square-foot medical office building in the Twin Cities suburb of Woodbury for an undisclosed price. The property is home to Minnesota Women’s Care, which serves patients throughout the Twin Cities area and western Wisconsin. The group maintains four office locations across this area. The seller was undisclosed.

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NEW YORK CITY — Weill Cornell Medicine has signed a 100,000-square-foot office and healthcare lease at 575 Lexington Ave., a 35-story, 745,000-square-foot building in Manhattan’s Plaza District. As part of a new 30-year agreement, Weill Cornell Medicine now occupies eight full floors and a portion of the ground floor for a total footprint of 300,000 square feet. David Falk, Andrew Sachs and Ben Shapiro of Newmark represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Peter Duncan and Dana Pike represented the landlord, George Comfort & Sons, on an internal basis.

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DENVER AND MILWAUKEE — Two healthcare REITs, Denver-based Healthpeak Properties (NYSE: PEAK) and Milwaukee-based Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC), have agreed to enter into an all-stock merger agreement that is valued at roughly $21 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, each share of Physicians Realty Trust common stock will be converted into 0.674 of a share of newly issued Healthpeak common stock. The combined entity will feature a portfolio of roughly 52 million square feet of healthcare assets. On a pro-forma basis, Healthpeak and Physicians Realty Trust shareholders will own approximately 77 percent and 23 percent of the combined company, respectively. The deal is expected to close during the first half of next year. Of the combined 52 million square feet, about 40 million would consist of outpatient healthcare facilities in major gateway markets like Nashville, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and Denver. Healthpeak CEO Scott Brinker will lead the newly formed company in conjunction with a board of directors comprised of eight existing Healthpeak directors and five existing Physicians Realty Trust directors, including current CEO John Thomas. In detailing the reasons behind the merger, executives from both companies noted that Healthpeak Properties and Physicians Realty Trust have overlapping footprints in …

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