LINCOLN, NEB. — NexCore Group and Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) have broken ground on the 34,668-square-foot CHI Health Clinic Yankee Hill in Lincoln. CHI will be the sole tenant in the one-story building, located at 4055 Yankee Hill Road. The facility will offer primary care, physical therapy, behavioral health services and specialty care, imaging services, a laboratory and retail pharmacy. NexCore will own the building, which is slated for completion in summer 2022. McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. is the general contractor and Omaha-based Leo A. Daly is the architect. Englewood, Colo.-based CHI is part of the Chicago-based health system CommonSpirit, which maintains hospitals and care centers in 21 states.
ST. LOUIS — Clayco and its joint venture partner TW Constructors have broken ground on a 659,000-square-foot ambulatory care center for Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Completion is slated for summer 2024. The university and BJC HealthCare are leading development of the nine-story building, which will be located on the corner of Forest Park and Taylor avenues. The building will feature 238,560 square feet of occupied medical space, as well as a 243,250-square-foot parking garage with 430 parking spaces located above the main lobby on the second through fourth floors. Connected to the Washington University Medical Campus by a pedestrian link, the ambulatory care center will feature 96 exam rooms, 88 infusion bays, radiology, breast imaging and chemistry laboratory departments. Additionally, the project will include a three-bay loading dock on the lower level. Lawrence Group and Perkins Eastman are the project architects. An ambulatory care center is also known as an outpatient care center, which provides same-day medical procedures in an outpatient environment. The project is the latest addition to the medical campus that continues to expand east into St. Louis’ Central West End. The Barnes-Jewish Hospital is where the …
ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Trammell Crow Co. (TCC) plans to develop a 383,000-square-foot mixed-use development in Alexandria. Located at 765 John Carlyle St., the Class A project will include a 268,000-square-foot seniors housing property and a 115,000-square-foot medical office building. The buildings will be constructed above a common podium offering a mix of retail uses and a 440-space parking garage. Construction is slated to begin in the third quarter of 2022 and will be completed by the end of 2024. The 18-story seniors housing building will include approximately 215 residences that will offer independent living, assisted living and memory care options. The medical office building will rise 10 stories and include 12,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The project will be located about 9.5 miles from downtown Washington, D.C., and 4.4 miles from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. JM Zell Partners and CBRE Global Investors will be co-developers on the project. The majority investor, TCC will team up with Senior Resource Group, a luxury senior living operator and developer, on the senior living component of the project. Remedy Medical Properties, a medical office real estate investment firm, will be a partner on the medical office component. Perkins Eastman is the …
AMARILLO, TEXAS — Texas Oncology will open a 50,000-square-foot cancer care center in Amarillo. The freestanding facility will offer medical oncology, hematology, gynecologic oncology, radiation oncology, breast radiology, surgical oncology and colon and rectal surgery services. Denver-based NexCore Group is the developer of the project, which will be situated on 4.8 acres. Construction will begin later this year. Once open, specialists at Texas Oncology’s other Amarillo offices will move to this location.
ALBANY AND TROY, N.Y. — Jacobson Properties and Pyramid Brokerage Co. have negotiated the sale of a four-building, 119,602-square-foot medical office portfolio in Upstate New York. Three of the buildings are located in Albany, and the other is located in Troy, a suburb of the state capital. A national healthcare REIT purchased the portfolio, which was fully occupied at the time of sale, for an undisclosed price. Lisa Menin of Jacobson Properties and Leo Jones of Pyramid Brokerage negotiated the deal.
RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Colliers International has negotiated the sale of 71 Union Avenue, a 32,226-square-foot, transit-served office and healthcare property in the Northern New Jersey community of Rutherford. The seller was an affiliate of Aspen Advisors, and the buyer was undisclosed. Jacklene Chesler, Matthew Brown and Patrick Norris of Colliers brokered the deal.
LENOX TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Healthcare real estate developer NexCore Group and Beaumont Health have opened a new outpatient campus in Macomb County’s Lenox Township, about 40 miles northeast of Detroit. Southfield-based Beaumont is the state’s largest health system. The building rises three stories and spans 109,630 square feet. The facility includes a digital directory, patient education center, lab, pharmacy, café and collaboration areas. NexCore entered into a long-term ground lease with Beaumont, which acquired the land. Dallas-based HKS Architects was the project architect and Sterling Heights, Mich.-based Roncelli served as general contractor.
CHICAGO AND DENVER — NexCore Group, a national healthcare real estate developer and owner, has teamed up with global investment management firm Nuveen Real Estate to acquire a portfolio of 27 medical office and two life sciences buildings spanning nearly 1.2 million square feet. IRA Capital, a private equity firm based in Southern California, sold the portfolio in two transactions totaling $620.4 million. The portfolio spans 13 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. The medical office properties comprise ambulatory surgery centers, micro-hospitals, freestanding emergency departments and single- and multi-tenant clinics. The properties were 99 percent leased at the time of sale to 38 tenants, the vast majority of which are well-established healthcare systems. The medical office buildings sold for about $463 million, according to NexCore, which will manage the facilities moving forward. Allianz Real Estate provided $234 million in acquisition financing on behalf of NexCore and Nuveen for the medical office portfolio. The financing is structured on a seven-year term with both a fixed-rate tranche totaling $163.8 million and a floating-rate tranche totaling $70.2 million. Chicago-based Nuveen is using equity for the medical office assets via its newly launched U.S. Cities …
PHILADELPHIA — Keystone Property Group has landed a new life sciences tenant at The Curtis, the metro Philadelphia-based developer’s 912,245-square-foot facility in Philadelphia that is a redevelopment of a former printing press. Aro Biotherapeutics Co., a developer of genetic medicines, has committed to an undisclosed amount of space at the 12-story building. Bob Zwengler, Anthony Pell, Matt Knowles and Paul Touhey of CBRE represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Tim Conrey, Lisa Berger Baskin and K.J. Kulik of Scheer Partners represented Keystone.
BETTENDORF, IOWA — Southern California-based private equity firm IRA Capital has acquired the Genesis Center for Digestive Health in Bettendorf, one of the Quad Cities. The purchase price was undisclosed. The 14,000-square-foot medical office building is fully leased to Genesis Health. Constructed in 2004, the highly specialized endoscopy center features three operating rooms alongside a full gastroenterology clinic, which includes physician offices, exam rooms and procedure rooms. Gastroenterology Associates previously occupied the building before becoming part of Genesis in June. IRA acquired the property through a sale-leaseback with Genesis, which operates six hospitals and employs over 5,500 people in the region.