MESA, ARIZ. — Chicago-based The Alter Group has broken ground for the construction of the fourth building at its 50-acre Arizona Health & Technology Park in Mesa. Located at 5835 E. Still Circle, the two-story building offers 42,000 square feet of office/biomedical research space. The overall center is an alliance between The Alter Group and the Mesa Campus of A.T. Still University of Health Sciences. CB Richard Ellis facilitated the relationship and serves as the exclusive marketing agent for the property.
WINFIELD, ILL. — Chicago-based RTKL Associates has been selected to design a $235 million patient building at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. The five-story, 276,000-square-foot facility will contain 202 private patient rooms. Each room will include a separate family area with a sleeper sofa, recliner, television and work station with Internet access. In addition, patient rooms will contain a bedside computer for staff that will be able to connect to the room’s television to share materials with the patient. The new building is expected to achieve LEED-Silver certification, and will serve as the new front entrance to the hospital. The main lobby of the building will connect the existing conference center and auditorium to the hospital by means of a two-story curving concourse facing a landscaped courtyard. Another two-story lobby will connect the new patient building to the ambulatory care pavilion and an existing parking garage. Construction is scheduled to begin in spring 2009, with completion expected in fall 2011. The new building is part of a hospital master plan also designed by RTKl that was completed in 2006. Currently under construction in anticipation of the new building is a 360-car parking lot and an expansion of the existing imaging …
BOSTON — Richard Barry Joyce & Partners (RBJ) has completed the $8.7 million sale of 121 Brookline Ave. in Boston. The facility is slated to be the future home of the Longwood Research Center, a proposed six-story, 130,000-square-foot laboratory building. The project is pre-certified LEED compliant and is set to break ground this summer. Robert Richards of RBJ represented the seller, 121 Brookline Ave., LLC, and procured the buyer, Boylston Properties Co., in the transaction. Richards and Chris McCauley, also of RBJ, will lead the leasing team assigned to the project.
MANCHESTER, CONN. — Leonard Lucas of Love Funding’s Boston office has placed $6.28 million in financing for the acquisition of the Crestfield Rehabilitation Center in Manchester. The facility, also known as Fenwood Manor, features a 95-bed skilled nursing center for sub-acute care and a 60-bed intermediate care facility. The undisclosed Connecticut-based borrower purchased the facility for $5.4 million.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — Arlington, Texas-based Ascension Group Architects has received the contract to design Central Texas Medical Center’s $35 million expansion and renovation in San Marcos. Plans call for a new childbirth center, a Level II neonatal critical care unit, a new cardiac telemetry inpatient nursing unit and an expansion/improvement of the hospital’s surgical unit. The more than 64,000-square-foot, two-story addition is scheduled to break ground in the third quarter. Parsons Corp. is the program manager.
NOBLESVILLE, IND. — The Indianapolis office of Jackson Commercial Real Estate has announced plans to develop Hamilton Healthcare Campus, an 11.5-acre medical facility located at the corner of 146th Street and Cumberland Road in Noblesville. The project will consist of two buildings: a three-story building totaling more than 122,000 square feet, and a single-story structure totaling 8,287 square feet. Project costs are expected to exceed $20 million; groundbreaking is expected this summer.
BURBANK, CALIF. — McCarthy Building Cos. is developing the Roy and Patricia Disney Cancer Center in Burbank. Located at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, the $21.8 million facility will be San Fernando Valley’s most comprehensive freestanding cancer center when it opens in summer 2009. The four-story, 57,469-square-foot center will provide a combination of Western and Eastern medicine, including oncology, hematology, pathology, rehabilitation, nutrition, social services and spiritual care. Designed by Pasadena, Calif.-based SWA Architects, the project will feature a two-story waterfall in the lobby, exterior fountains and a rooftop meditative labyrinth. The project is being funded through private donations, including a $10 million gift from Roy and Patricia Disney.
CHESTERFIELD, MO. — St. Louis-based Walton Construction Co. has been selected to serve as general contractor for the development of Chesterfield Medical Institute, a $6.7 million medical facility located at 1001 Chesterfield Pkwy. East in Chesterfield. The two-story building will house three medical practices, including Laser & Dermatologic Surgery Center, West County Dermatology and Generation Dental Group. Feeler-Sheer Architects will provide design services for the project.
JOHNS CREEK, GA. — Trammell Crow Co., in a joint venture with MetLife, is developing Woodlands Park, an 18-acre multi-phase medical campus in Johns Creek. Phase 1, Woodlands Park Medical Arts I, consists of a 100,000-square-foot, four-story medical office building, located at 6375 Hospital Parkway, which borders the Emory Johns Creek Hospital campus. Phase 2 will also be four stories and 100,000 square feet. The project architect is Wakefield Beasley, and the general contractor is Brasfield & Gorie. Construction began on Phase 1 in March and is expected to complete in January.
ST. CLOUD, FLA. — Osceola Development and Land Co. is building St. Cloud Medical Arts and Technology Park, a 100,000-square-foot, LEED-certified research and development center at Stevens Plantation Corporate Center in St. Cloud. The project will consist of a 10,000-square-foot imaging center, a 10,000-square-foot surgical center, a 30,000-square-foot incubator space to be occupied by the University of Central Florida Technology Incubation Program and 50,000 square feet of medical office space. BCArchitects is designing the project, and St. Cloud-based Snow Construction is the general contractor. Construction is expected to commence this summer.