NEW YORK CITY — CBRE has arranged the recapitalization and refinancing of a portfolio of eight acute care hospitals located throughout Massachusetts in a transaction valued at $1.7 billion. Specifically, the properties are located in the Brighton and Dorchester areas of Boston, as well as in Methuen, Haverhill, Brockton, Fall River, Taunton and Ayer. Steward Health Care System occupies the hospitals. Under the terms of the transaction, the owner of the portfolio, Medical Properties Trust Inc. (NYSE: MPW), will enter into a joint venture with an affiliate of Macquarie Asset Management, which will acquire a 50 percent interest. Keith Harris, Lee Asher, Chris Bodnar, Ryan Lindsley and Jordan Selbiger of CBRE negotiated the equity restructuring on behalf of Medical Properties Trust. James Millon of CBRE arranged a loan of an undisclosed amount for the refinancing of the existing debt on the portfolio.
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LINCOLN, R.I. — Newmark has negotiated the $7.1 million sale of a 40,037-square-foot medical office building in Lincoln, Rhode Island. At the time of sale, the recently renovated property was fully leased to tenants such as engineering firm BETA and cancer clinic LifeSpan. Michael Greeley, Joseph Alvarado and George Demoulas of Newmark represented the seller, a locally based affiliate of Blackstone, in the transaction. Boston-based Legacy Capital Ventures purchased the asset.
RENO, NEV. — JLL Income Property Trust, an institutionally managed daily NAV REIT, has purchased South Reno Medical Center, a medical office property in Reno, for $14.6 million. Redeveloped in 2016, the more than 32,000-square-foot property is 100 percent leased to two orthopedic groups, with a weighted average lease term of just under 10 years. The name of the seller was not released.
ITHACA, N.Y. — Locally based healthcare provider Cayuga Health has purchased a 108,000-square-foot space at The Shops at Ithaca Mall in upstate New York. The provider has occupied the space since March 2020 as a COVID-19 testing center. Cayuga Health plans to consolidate some of its existing practices into this location, as well as to lease out some of the space to new vendors. The seller was a partnership that includes two Long Island-based investment firms, Mason Asset Management and Namdar Realty Group.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Locally based firm Caddis Healthcare Real Estate will develop Frisco Medical Pavilion II, a 60,000-square-foot medical office building that will be located on the northern outskirts of Dallas. The site is located just north of Texas Health Frisco Hospital. Construction is expected to begin in mid-2022, with an estimated completion date of summer 2023. Transwestern has been tapped to lease the property. Caddis broke ground on the Frisco Medical Pavilion I in 2018, and the building is now fully leased.
Harrison Street Sells Eight Medical Office Buildings in San Francisco, Los Angeles Areas for $215M
by Amy Works
SAN FRANCISCO, SANTA ROSA, DALY CITY, ALAMEDA, GREENBRAE AND LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — Harrison Street has completed the disposition of a portfolio of eight medical office buildings valued at nearly $215 million across California. The properties were held across several of Harrison Street’s funds and managed in partnership with Pinnacle Capital Management Services. Totaling 380,000 rentable square feet, the portfolio is spread across San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Daly City, Alameda, Greenbrae and Los Angeles’ Van Nuys neighborhood. Tenants include leading regional health systems, such as Marin Health, Sutter Health, CommonSpirit Health and Kaiser Permanente. The seller invested more than $17 million in capital during its ownership, including recent building renovations, tenant improvements and leasing commissions. Chris Bodnar, Lee Asher, Jordan Selbiger, Ryan Lindsley, Sabrina Solomiany and Zack Holderman of CBRE’s U.S Healthcare & Life Sciences Capital Markets team represented Los Angeles-based Pinnacle Capital Management Services in the transaction.
TYLER, TEXAS — St. Louis-based general contractor McCarthy Building Cos. has topped out The Northeast Texas Cancer and Research Institute, an 85,000-square-foot healthcare project in Tyler, about 100 miles east of Dallas. The center is located on the CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital campus and will feature specialized areas for cancer treatment provider Texas Oncology, including 30,000 square feet of clinic space for medical, radiation and gynecologic oncology services, as well as nearly 3,000 square feet of space dedicated to research. The property will be equipped with three linear accelerators for radiation therapy, 52 chemotherapy infusion stations, four private rooms, a patient exercise area and a pharmacy with lab services. Construction began in May 2021 and is expected to be fully complete in September.
HAYDEN, IDAHO, AND LAYTON, UTAH — An affiliate of Livingston Street Capital has completed the disposition of two medical office properties, totaling 31,500 square feet, in Idaho and Utah. AEI Net Lease Portfolio 19 DST acquired the assets for $14.4 million. The properties, which include a 15,000-square-foot building at 8300 N. Cornerstone Drive in Hayden and a 16,500-square-foot building at 781 Heritage Park Blvd. in Layton, are both fully leased to BioLife Plasma Services, which collects the plasma that is processed into plasma-based therapies.
HOUSTON — Wolf Capital Partners has acquired Heights Medical Tower, a 120,000-square-foot medical office building in Houston’s Heights neighborhood. The location at 427 W. 20th St. puts the property across the street from The Heights Hospital. The new ownership will renovate the property to feature a new lobby, elevator cabs, spec suites, MEP systems and restrooms, while also rebranding the building as HeightsMED. Heins Properties’ Anthony Heins represented Wolf Capital Partners in the deal. Matthew Putterman of JLL arranged acquisition financing through Origin Bank. The seller was not disclosed. Transwestern has been tapped to lease the property. Completion of the capital improvement program is slated for mid-2023.
HOUSTON — Realty Trust Group, a healthcare real estate advisory firm with six offices across the Southeast, has expanded into Texas with the opening of a new office at 2200 Post Oak Blvd. in Houston’s Galleria neighborhood. Services offered will include healthcare real estate advisory, market analytics, project development, brokerage, property management and regulatory compliance support. Craig Flanagan, an industry veteran who joined Realty Trust Group in 2012, will lead the new office.