LEXINGTON, MASS. — A partnership between Greatland Realty Partners and Singerman Real Estate has acquired a 288,528-square-foot office/research and development campus located at 10 Maguire Road in the northern Boston suburb of Lexington. The four-building property is located near the I-95/Route 128 and Route 3 interchange and features an open-air food hall with indoor and outdoor seating. JLL is marketing the property for lease to life sciences and technology users.
BAKERSFIELD, CALIF. — CIT Group has arranged a $17.4 million loan for the acquisition of a three-building medical office portfolio in Bakersfield. Totaling more than 65,000 square feet, the fully leased properties are located on the campus of Bakersfield Heart Hospital. A majority of the building tenants are practice groups affiliated with the hospital. CIT’s Healthcare Finance unit served as sole leader arranger for the financing. The name of the borrower was not released.
SANTA ANA AND ANAHEIM, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged a $58.2 million loan for the refinancing of a five-property healthcare portfolio in Orange County. Sabrina Solomiany and Zack Holderman of CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance platform secured the loan on behalf of Pacific Coast Holdings Investment, the owner of the portfolio. Jonathan Bloch and Jennifer Eiteljorg of Brownstein Hyatt represented the borrower in the financing transaction. The portfolio consists of three acute-care hospital leased to KPC Healthcare, one long-term acute care hospital leased to Kindred Healthcare and a vacant medical office building. Orange County Global Medical Center, South Coast Global Medical Center, Kindred Hospital and the vacant building are located in Santa Ana; and Anaheim Global Medical Center is located in Anaheim. The 621,000-square-foot, 703-bed portfolio was more than 97 percent leased at the time of refinancing.
ANDOVER, MASS. — Healthcare investment firm Remedy Medical Properties has purchased Andover Medical Center, located north of Boston, for $55.2 million. Built in phases between 2015 and 2017, the complex consists of a 69,992-square-foot medical office building, a 102-space parking garage and a freestanding 1,800-square-foot coffee shop. Robert Griffin, Frank Nelson, Michael Greeley, Blake McLaughlin, Allie Percoco and Dominick Romano of Newmark represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
CINCINNATI — Cushman & Wakefield’s healthcare capital markets team has brokered the sale of Anderson Ferry Plaza in Cincinnati for $4.2 million. The 43,599-square-foot medical office building is located on Anderson Ferry Road. It is more than 87 percent leased to TriHealth Physician Partners, ABC Pediatric Therapy, Clarkson Eye Care and Happy Hangout. Gino Lollio, Scott Niedergang and Travis Ives led the Cushman & Wakefield team that represented the seller, Rialto Capital. Publicly traded healthcare real estate investment trust Community Healthcare Trust Inc. (NYSE: CHCT) was the buyer. As of March 31, the REIT’s portfolio consisted of 147 properties totaling 3.2 million square feet across 33 states.
BEDFORD, MASS. — A partnership between boutique investment manager Optimum Asset Management, Boston-based developer Redgate and AEW Capital Management LP has purchased a 52-acre commercial campus in Bedford, located northwest of Boston. The new ownership plans to convert the existing 288,000-square-foot anchor office building into a life sciences facility. The site also has the capacity to support another 300,000 square feet of office, lab and manufacturing space. The seller was not disclosed. Matt Sherry and Jon Schneider of JLL brokered the sale. JLL is also marketing the property for lease.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — NexCore Group, a national healthcare real estate developer, and Banner Health have opened Banner Health Center Plus in Glendale, the health system’s latest multi-specialty health center. Located at 7701 W. Aspera Blvd., the three-story, 128,413-square-foot center is Banner Health’s largest such facility to date. The property features 128 exam rooms, 13 imaging rooms, and 45 physicians offering comprehensive clinical services such as family medicine, pediatrics, orthopedics, general surgery, dermatology, gastroenterology, cardiology, endocrinology, internal medicine and OB/GYN. Additionally, the center offers lab, pharmacy and advanced CT and MRI imaging services, plus a wellness trail around the site for patients and staff. The development team included SmithGroup as architect and Haydon Building Construction as contractor.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — ABS National Business Parks has purchased Gardens Plaza, a mixed-use campus in West Palm Beach that comprises of a nine-story office tower, two-story medical office building and a development pad. The locally based developer, Stiles, sold the property for $30.5 million. Gardens Plaza is located on the south side of PGA Boulevard, adjacent to Gardens Mall and less than one mile east of Interstate 95. The property was 85 percent leased at the time of sale to a variety of corporate tenants. The tower spans 86,542 rentable square feet, and the medical office building spans 5,627 square feet and has been occupied by Jupiter Medical since 2016. Christian Lee, José Lobón, Kevin Probel and Kevin McCarthy of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. Brian Warwick with ABS Altman Warwick LLC worked alongside Amy Julian with CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance division to secure a 10-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan through JPMorgan. ABS National Business Parks is a New York-based, privately held owner and operator. The company plans to modernize Gardens Plaza, including upgrading to a high-level HEPA air filtration system and updating the building’s four elevators.
NORWOOD, MASS. — Moderna Inc. will expand its Moderna Technology Center biomanufacturing campus in Norwood, a southern suburb of Boston, by about 350,000 square feet. The biotechnology and pharmaceutical giant plans to renovate and expand its existing production and lab space and has acquired a 240,000-square-foot building on the same campus, ultimately yielding a 50 percent expansion and a total footprint of 650,000 square feet. The expansion will support Moderna’s efforts to ramp up production of its COVID-19 vaccine in late 2021 and early 2022. Moderna originally opened this facility in 2018.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — MedCraft Healthcare Real Estate and TMC HealthCare have partnered to develop an Ambulatory Surgery Center at TMC HealthCare’s Rincon campus located at 10360 Drexel Road in Tucson. The partnership selected Kraus-Anderson as contractor for the $8 million project. The 17,000-square-foot facility will provide additional medical and surgical services, as well as the ability for a 3,000-square-foot future expansion. Designed by Orcutt Winslow, the property will feature rooftop solar panels, low- and no-water use landscaping, a cool roof system to reduce heat island affects, trees to shade the building and glass, and the use of reclaimed water for irrigation. Completion is slated for spring 2022.
