CHICAGO — Chicago-based Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has expanded its platform into medical office brokerage. Coinciding with the announcement is the addition of medical office veterans Eric Lee and Chris Lashmet to lead the practice. Known for its activity in the seniors housing and care space, Blueprint says the expansion is an effort to provide innovative advisory services to the healthcare sector while also best serving its core senior living clients. Blueprint’s medical office practice will include services such as investment sales; sale-leaseback structuring for physician groups; strategic real estate advisory for health systems and investors; joint venture structuring with developers; and capital raising for ground-up development.
BOSTON — IQHQ Inc., a developer of life sciences real estate with offices in Boston and San Diego, has begun construction on Fenway Center, a $1 billion project in Boston. IQHQ is co-developing the project with locally based firm Meredith Management. The initial phase of construction centers on the development of a 90,000-square-foot air rights deck that overlooks the Massachusetts Turnpike between Beacon Street and Brookline Avenue. The construction of the air rights deck will be the largest air rights structure built in Boston since Copley Place in 1980 and will take approximately 24 months to complete. Upon completion, Fenway Center will consist of more than 960,000 square feet of life sciences space with 10,000 square feet of retail space across two towers. Construction of the life sciences buildings is expected to be complete in early 2025. The campus will also feature 1.6 acres of landscaped green space and a parking garage that will be accessible from both buildings. The green space will include a large plaza and a public pedestrian walkway. The site is adjacent to BOWER, a new 312-unit luxury apartment complex that contains 38,000 square feet of amenity-oriented retail, the Lansdowne MBTA Commuter Rail Station, Fenway Park …
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — NAI Partners has negotiated a 25,288-square-foot life sciences lease for biotechnology firm Lexicon Pharmaceuticals at 2445 Technology Forest Blvd. in The Woodlands, about 30 miles north of Houston. Dan Boyles and Jon Silberman of NAI Partners represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. The duo also recently arranged the sale of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals’ former headquarters building in The Woodlands.
By Sunny Somaiya, co-founder, WellnessSpace As we navigate what working life and office spaces will look like in a post-pandemic world, one thing is certain — they will not be the same as before. With many companies realizing during the pandemic that their employees can be just as or even more productive working from home, demand for office space may remain low for the foreseeable future. Remote work should thus continue to be a popular option. However, for businesses that require office space but face unprecedented uncertainty about their futures, renting traditional office space may not be the best solution. This is particularly true for private medical and wellness practices, and that is where coworking spaces come in. Coworking spaces have been around for many years and are undergoing a transformation of their own. They provide a great middle-ground choice for businesses that are looking for spaces but want to increase flexibility and avoid signing long-term leases. While traditional coworking spaces appeal to entrepreneurs and business owners, niche coworking spaces have risen in popularity in recent years to meet the demands of specific individuals. Medical and wellness coworking spaces represent a new breed that satisfy an unmet demand for flexible …
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke Health has opened a newly built center at Duke Regional Hospital in Durham that services behavioral therapy patients. The new center plans to combine the behavioral health services that had been offered separately at Duke University and Duke Regional hospitals. The facility, known as Duke Behavioral Health Center North Durham, cost $102.4 million to build. The Duke Behavioral Health Center North Durham project also includes an expansion of the hospital’s emergency department, which has been moving into the new space on a rolling basis as construction is completed. The new behavioral health services at the facility include 42 private inpatient rooms with two courtyards; 18 private treatment spaces in the emergency department with a courtyard; 30 outpatient clinic rooms; and electroconvulsive therapy. The new addition increases capacity from 36 to 49 treatment rooms. Construction started inside in the hospital in March 2018. The public entrance that had recently been near Cancer Services opened yesterday at its permanent location off Crutchfield Street, adjacent to the main hospital building.
COLUMBUS, OHIO — Quantum Real Estate Advisors Inc. has brokered the sale of a single-tenant medical office building in Columbus for $1.4 million. Located at 4660 Roberts Road, the property is fully occupied by BrightView Health, a behavioral clinic specializing in the treatment of opioid addiction. Chad Firsel and Jason Lenhoff of Quantum represented the seller, a local real estate investment and development company. A Florida-based private investor was the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — New York-based Fleet Financial Group will develop Eastern Mirage Medical Center, a 104,000-square-foot healthcare facility in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. The facility will be located within an 18-story building that will also house a 208-room hotel with amenities including a pool, spa, fitness center and meeting rooms. The healthcare facility is slated to open in the third quarter, the same time that Fleet Financial expects to deliver the building.
PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLA. — The St. Joe Co., Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Inc. (TMH) and Florida State University College of Medicine have partnered to develop a healthcare campus in Panama City Beach. The campus’ planned location is on an 87-acre parcel near the intersection of State Highway 79 and Phillip Griffitts Sr. Parkway. The property is planned to be close to the Latitude Margaritaville Watersound community, a 55-and-older community that is planned for 3,500 homes. Future development plans of the healthcare campus include the construction of an emergency center and 100-bed inpatient facility offering services such as gastroenterology, urology, gynecology, cardiology and general surgery, among others. The parties intend to create a local fiduciary governance structure for the planned campus. TMH currently serves 17 counties in Florida and Georgia. This would be its first facility in Bay County. The parties intend to break ground on the project as early as 2022.
NEW CANEY, TEXAS — Locally based developer Signorelli Co. has revealed updated site plans for the Valley Ranch Medical District, a 200-acre campus within the firm’s Valley Ranch master-planned community located northeast of Houston in New Caney. Valley Ranch Medical District will consist of a 25-acre regional hospital with over 250 beds, a 13.7-acre medical school campus and a 21-acre medical research facility. A day surgery, pediatric clinic and approximately 28 acres devoted to medical offices will be included as well. The development will also include retail, restaurants and academic buildings. The detention and drainage for the entire development is scheduled to be complete in the next 120 days with site work for streets and utilities to follow immediately.
TYLER AND TEXARKANA, TEXAS — Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. (BGL), a global investment banking and financial advisory firm, has negotiated the sale of the 39,814-square-foot Precision Spine Care portfolio in Tyler and Texarkana. The portfolio consists of one clinical office and imaging center and one clinical office and ambulatory surgical center. BGL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The buyer and sales price were also not disclosed.