BRAINTREE, MASS. — New York-based Clarion Partners has purchased a 58,935-square-foot biomanufacturing facility at 55 Messina Drive in Braintree, a southern suburb of Boston. The property features six wet labs, temperature-controlled rooms, a new water filtration system and 18.5-foot ceiling heights. The facility was fully leased to Zimmer Biomet, a global leader in musculoskeletal healthcare, at the time of sale. Scott Dragos of CBRE brokered the deal. The seller was not disclosed.
LEXINGTON, MASS. — Locally based developer Greatland Realty Partners has broken ground on Revolution Labs, a 180,000-square-foot life sciences project in Lexington, a northwestern suburb of Boston. Revolution Labs will feature purpose-built laboratory infrastructure, full-service onsite amenities and multi-functional outdoor spaces. SGA is the project architect, and Callahan Construction Managers is the general contractor. JLL is handling leasing for the property. The development team expects the property to be available for occupancy by the third quarter of 2022.
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — New York City-based CIT Group Inc. has provided a $19.3 million acquisition loan for Sugar Creek Health Center, an 84,646-square-foot medical office building located in the southwestern Houston suburb of Sugar Land. The property is leased to providers of ambulatory surgery, imaging, orthopedics, women’s health, dentistry and optometry services. The borrower was an affiliate of Austin-based Virtus Real Estate Capital.
HOUSTON — Locally based developer Testa Rossa Properties has topped out Museo Medical Office Building, a 10-story, 364,000-square-foot healthcare project located at 5115 Fannin St. in Houston. Designed by PJMD Architects and Dallas-based Huitt-Zollars, the project will house users such as Texas Laparoscopic Consultants and Mann Eye Institute. Completion is slated for the fall.
SPOKANE VALLEY, WASH. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Vivacity Care Center, a medical office property located at 16009 E. Indiana Ave. in Spokane Valley. An undisclosed developer sold the asset to a limited liability company for $7.8 million. Built in 2020, the net-leased property features 12,000 square feet of medical office space. The property is long-term leased, with annual rent increases, to the tenant, which is corporate guaranteed by Permera Blue Cross. Clayton Brown, Christopher Edwards and Ruthanne Romero of Marcus & Millichap’s Seattle office represented the seller and the buyer in the deal.
HOUSTON — An affiliate of locally based investment firm Rycore Capital has acquired Bellaire Medical Plaza, a 58,517-square-foot medical office building located near the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The sale included a 3.6-acre parcel for future development. Kevin McConn and Brian Bacharach of JLL represented the seller, Ridgeline Capital Partners, in the transaction. Matt Kafka and Cameron Cureton of JLL arranged acquisition financing on behalf of Rycore Capital. The property was 88 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as UT Physicians, Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp. and Harris Health System.
ZIONSVILLE, IND. — Montecito Medical has acquired a 12,294-square-foot medical office building in Zionsville, a northwest suburb of Indianapolis. The purchase price and seller were undisclosed. Completed in 2020 and fully leased, the building serves as the new location for a primary care provider in Zionsville. The asset is located at 10649 Bennett Parkway near I-465. The transaction marks Montecito’s fourth medical office asset that it has acquired in the area.
WEST ORANGE, N.J. — Thorofare Capital has provided a $13 million bridge loan for the acquisition of a 70,000-square-foot medical office building in the Northern New Jersey community of West Orange. The property is located within a mile of a 577-bed hospital. The loan was structured with a five-year term and includes proceeds for tenant improvements and other capital expenditures. The borrower was an undisclosed institutional owner-operator.
INDIANA AND TEXAS — Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of a four-property Fresenius Medical Care portfolio in Indiana and Texas for $9.8 million. The outpatient dialysis clinics are located in Auburn, Fort Wayne and Marion, Ind. as well as one in Dayton, Texas. Bill Asher, Jeff Lefko and Ed Hanley of Hanley Investment Group, in conjunction with ParaSell Inc., represented the seller, a Midwest-based private partnership. Brian Appel of Appel & Henick LLP handled legal affairs on behalf of the seller and negotiated lease extensions for the three Indiana properties. The 7,176-square-foot facility in Auburn sold to a St. Louis-based private buyer. Vince Vatterott and Michael Kocur of Westwood Net Lease Advisors represented the buyer. A Marin County, Calif.-based institutional group purchased the 7,580-square-foot property in Fort Wayne. Daniel Barnes of Lee & Associates represented the buyer. Brad Canova of Horvath & Tremblay represented the Denver-based private investor in the purchase of the 9,300-square-foot Marion facility. Lastly, Chris Shoemaker of Shoemaker Commercial Real Estate represented the California-based private investor in the acquisition of the 5,931-square-foot property in Dayton.
BOSTON — Bristol Myers Squibb has signed a 113,000-square-foot life sciences lease expansion at 250 Water St. at Cambridge Crossing, a 43-acre mixed-use project at the intersection of Cambridge, Somerville and Boston. The global pharmaceutical company is adding the remaining available space to its initial lease, which was announced in August of last year. Developer DivcoWest recently topped off the 480,000-square-foot building and expects to deliver it in 2022.