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OHIO — Greystone has provided a $50.1 million bridge loan for the acquisition of a six-property skilled nursing portfolio in Ohio. The communities total 719 beds and are located in Berea, Cleveland, Clyde, Kent and Waterville. Fred Levine of Greystone originated the floating-rate, interest-only loan through Greystone’s nonrecourse bridge loan program. Greystone says it will work with the borrower to secure a permanent HUD-insured loan for the skilled nursing portfolio as soon as possible. The borrower was undisclosed.

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MILWAUKEE — Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC), through its operating partnership Physicians Realty LP, has agreed to acquire a 15-building medical office portfolio for $764.3 million. The Class A buildings are located in eight states and comprise approximately 1.4 million square feet. The portfolio is roughly 95 percent leased. Each of the buildings are either located on a health system campus or are affiliated with a health system. The transaction is expected to close before the end of the year. The seller and property names were undisclosed. Physicians Realty Trust is a Milwaukee-based healthcare real estate company that acquires, develops, owns and manages properties that are leased to physicians, hospitals and healthcare delivery systems.

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MUNSTER, IND. — CA Health and Science Trust Inc. (CAHST), a newly formed private REIT focused on the acquisition and development of medical office and life sciences facilities, has acquired a three-building medical office complex in Munster for an undisclosed price. Munster is located about 30 miles southeast of the Chicago Loop. The buildings total more than 113,200 square feet and are home to ambulatory surgery centers. The sale also includes adjacent land parcels for the potential development of up to 50,000 square feet of additional medical office space. The acquisition 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. Mike Wilson, Erik Foster and Jim Kornick of Avison Young represented the seller, LBC Owner LLC.

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BURBANK, CALIF. — GPI Cos. has acquired a medical office building, located at 2701 W. Alameda Ave. in Burbank, from a private real estate investor for $23.9 million, or $468 per square foot. The 50,986-square-foot building was 90.4 percent leased to 22 medical tenants, with most of the space occupied by doctors on staff at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center. Mark Shaffer, Anthony DeLorenzo, Chris Bodnar, Lee Asher, Gerard Poutier and Cody Chiarella of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.

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WHEAT RIDGE, COLO. — SCL Health has selected NexCore to develop Clear Creek Crossing Medical Office Building on the Lutheran Medical Campus in Wheat Ridge. The five-story, 130,000-square-foot facility will be the first medical office building on the new 28-acre hospital campus, which will replace SCL Health’s existing Lutheran Medical Center 3.5 miles away. Construction began in June for the new campus, which will be part of the planned 100-acre Clear Creek Crossing mixed-use development at the southwest corner of State Highway 58 and Interstate 70. NexCore plans to break ground on the medical office building in late 2022, with completion slated for early 2024. The new facility will include SCL Health outpatient clinics and services, as well as an ambulatory surgical center.

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ST. LOUIS — McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has been selected to lead the design-build team overseeing the construction of a new 16-story inpatient tower at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. The project is part of BJC HealthCare’s campus renewal plan, a long-term vision to transform the Washington University Medical Campus through new construction and renovations with a focus on improving the patient and family experience at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. In addition to McCarthy, team members include architectural firm CannonDesign, consulting engineer BR+A, structural engineer Thornton Tomasetti, civil engineer Castle Contracting and landscape designer DTLS. The 660,000-square-foot tower will feature private rooms for heart and vascular patients, state-of-the-art imaging and the latest in surgical preparation and recovery. Plans call for 224 private inpatient rooms, 56 private intensive care unit rooms, two rooftop gardens and a family lounge with a business center, kitchenette, quiet rooms and laundry facilities. Additionally, an expansive surgical preparation and recovery program will occupy two floors. A modern imaging center will also occupy two floors. A new pedestrian walkway will lead from the parking lot to a redesigned and expanded lobby, gift shop and coffee bar. The new tower will replace Queeny Tower, a …

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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) has broken ground on the Moderna Science Center, a 462,000-square-foot research and development facility located at 325 Binney St., less than one mile from the company’s global headquarters in the Boston-area community of Cambridge.  The biotechnology company is a pioneer in the usage of messenger RNA (mRNA) for therapeutics and vaccines, including one of the earliest and most effective vaccinations against the COVID-19 virus. Moderna plans to use this site to advance its pipeline of mRNA research, which includes 37 programs currently in development and 22 ongoing clinical studies. Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. is developing the property, which will include custom scientific spaces for research and development, as well as collaborative office space. JLL represented Moderna in the acquisition of the development site. The project is targeting LEED Platinum certification and is scheduled for completion in 2023.  “We have been located in Massachusetts since our founding more than 10 years ago and are proud to be based here,” says Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna. “As we advance our mRNA platform and science, our new science center will integrate digital-first scientific research and development labs along with space for innovation and co-creation with our …

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CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA — Ryan Cos. US Inc. and Mercy Cedar Rapids have broken ground on The Heart Center at Mercy, a 72,000-square-foot cardiovascular center in Cedar Rapids. A skybridge will connect the center to the main Mercy hospital. Plans call for space for screenings and detection services as well as community education spaces for CPR and defibrillator training. Construction is scheduled to begin this fall and completion is slated for mid-2023. Ryan is serving as both designer and builder for the project.

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MAYWOOD, ILL. — Loyola Medicine has opened a 30,000-square-foot clinical laboratory facility to serve Loyola University Medical Center, its academic medical center, as well as two community hospitals, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital and MacNeal Hospital. The new laboratory is housed on the fourth and fifth floors of the existing emergency medical services building, which is located at the Maywood campus of Loyola University Medical Center. HED designed the space and Leopardo Construction served as the general contractor.

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OMAHA, NEB. — R&R Realty Group and MD West One are partnering to build a 38,000-square-foot medical facility on the east side of 192nd Street in Omaha. MD West One provides orthopedic, neurosurgery and spine care services. The project will be part of Fountain Ridge West, R&R Realty’s business park. Site work, including grading and the installation of utilities, is scheduled to begin in the next few weeks. Construction of the building will kick off this fall, and the facility is expected to be completed over a period of about 16 months.

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