METHUEN, MASS. — Newmark has brokered the $29.5 million sale of a 94,325-square-foot medical office building anchored by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the northern Boston suburb of Methuen. Robert Griffin, Frank Nelson, Michael Greeley and Allie Percoco of Newmark represented the seller, Marcus Partners, and procured the buyer, a joint venture between Celera Properties and AEW Capital Management. Newmark also arranged acquisition financing for the deal.
TUSTIN, CALIF. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Tustin Rehabilitation Hospital, a two-building, 73,180-square-foot medical facility at 14852 Yorba St. and 165 N. Myrtle Ave. in Tustin. An affiliate of Ventas sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $18 million. The property consists of a single-story, 17,180-square-foot nursing facility, which is currently vacant, and a two-story, 56,000-square-foot 48-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility that will become vacant by the end of the year. Travis Ives and Gino Lillio of Cushman & Wakefield’s US Healthcare Capital Markets team represented the seller in the deal.
ELGIN, ILL. — CA Health and Science Trust Inc. (CAHST) has acquired a 95,000-square-foot medical office building in Elgin for an undisclosed price. A publicly traded REIT was the seller. The four-story property is home to tenants such as Derick Dermatology, Suburban Orthopedics and Northwestern Medicine. The building is located at 1600 Randall Road near I-90 and is adjacent to Advocate Sherman Hospital. The latest investment from CAHST is part of an equity commitment of up to $245 million from partners Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP, Monarch Alternative Capital LP and CA Ventures for the acquisition, development and renovation of medical office and life sciences buildings.
LEHIGH COUNTY, PA. — G.S. Wilcox, a commercial mortgage banking firm based in Northern New Jersey, has arranged a $44 million construction loan for a 70,000-square-foot healthcare project in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. The exact location of the single-tenant project was not disclosed. Wesley Wilcox of G.S. Wilcox arranged the fixed-rate loan, which carried a 23-year term, on behalf of the undisclosed borrower.
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Dry Creek Medical Office Building, located at 125 Inverness Drive East in Englewood. Terms of the transaction were not released. Chris Bodnar, Lee Asher, Ryan Lindsley and Jordan Selbiger of CBRE Healthcare and Life Sciences Capital Markets partnered with Dann Burke, Stephani Gaskins and Anna Heiserman of CBRE’s Denver office to represent the undisclosed seller in the deal. Built in 2000, Dry Creek Medical Office Building features 57,250 square feet of space. At the time of sale, the property was 87 percent leased to a variety of tenants, including two surgery centers, imaging, OB/GYN, dentistry, ophthalmology, neurology, pain management and plastic surgery specialists.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — JLL Capital Markets has negotiated the $31.4 million sale of a three-property medical office portfolio totaling 72,499 square feet in metro Charlotte. Mindy Berman, Pete Pittroff, Brannan Knott and Daniel Flynn of JLL represented the seller, The Keith Corp., a Charlotte-based commercial real estate firm, in the transaction. Chicago-based Remedy Medical Properties was the buyer. The portfolio includes the following: Mission Hospital McDowell Medical Office Building located at 430 Rankin Drive in Marion; Steele Creek Medical Office Building located at 13425 Hoover Creek Blvd. in Charlotte; and Tryon Medical Partners – Matthews at 630 Matthews Township Parkway in Matthews. The facilities were 97 percent leased at the time of sale to regional and national healthcare providers including health systems such as Novant Health and Mission Health (HCA), as well as physician practice groups such as Tryon Medical Partners and Charlotte Radiology. The Keith Corp. recently constructed or renovated the Steele Creek Medical Office Building and Mission Hospital McDowell Medical Office Building. The Keith Corp. and Sportsmed Properties developed the Steele Creek property.
CLEVELAND — Cleveland-based KeyBank Real Estate Capital, the commercial real estate business unit of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY), has established a new unitranche loan program with Toledo-based Welltower Inc. The healthcare real estate fund will total $750 million in lending capacity and will provide first mortgage financing on seniors housing and skilled nursing facilities. A unitranche loan blends senior and junior debt pricing and terms into a single first lien debt facility rather than creating two classes of debt and coordinating among multiple lenders. This approach increases certainty of execution, and borrowers typically benefit from a single lending entity and blended interest rate, according to KeyBank.
EDISON, N.J. — Colliers International has negotiated the sale of a 30,000-square-foot medical office building in Edison, located roughly midway between Newark and Trenton. At the time of sale, the property was 83 percent leased to five tenants. Kim Kretowicz of Colliers represented the undisclosed seller and procured the buyer, private equity real estate firm Thomas Park, in the transaction.
AKRON, OHIO — Fairfield Advisors has brokered the sale of the Crystal Clinic medical office portfolio in metro Akron for $8 million. The portfolio consists of 26,500 square feet and is utilized for orthopedic services, including surgery, imaging and physical therapy. With over 40 physicians, Crystal Clinic is one of the largest independently owned orthopedic practices in Ohio. Ben Whitney and Greg Trainor of Fairfield represented the seller in the transaction. Buyer and seller information was not provided.
LOS ANGELES — GPI Cos. has completed the disposition of a medical office building located in Los Angeles’ North Hollywood neighborhood. Principal Real Estate Investors acquired the asset for an undisclosed price in an off-market transaction. Located at 4343 Lankershim Blvd., the three-story property features 32,418 square feet of medical office space. The property is fully leased to a local health institution and offers pain medicine and digestive disease services. Andrew Milne, Evan Kovac and Matt DiCesare of JLL Healthcare Capital Markets, along with Bryan Lewitt of JLL’s Los Angeles Healthcare Markets, represented the seller in the deal.
