BROOKHAVEN, GA. — The Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club has received a $35 million refinancing loan for its Emory Sports Medicine Clinic in Brookhaven. The new National Black Bank Foundation organized the syndicate loan, with Carver State Bank serving as lead arranger. All contributing banks of the syndicate loan are Black-owned banks, which are classified as financial institutions where either 51 percent or more of the voting stock is owned by minority individuals or a majority of the board or directors and the community it serves are predominantly minority, according to Investopedia. The Hawks are the first professional sports organization to have a “significant” loan underwritten exclusively by Black-owned banks, according to the team. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the other member banks in the deal are Citizens Savings Bank, Citizens Trust Bank, Commonwealth National Bank, Industrial Bank, Liberty Bank & Trust, M&F Bank and Optus Bank. The new loan replaces the original construction loan for the center, which was delivered in fall 2017. The 90,000-square-foot property contains the official training and practice facility of the Hawks, the hub of Emory Healthcare’s Sports Medicine program and Sports Science and Research division and the Peak Performance Project (P3). Emory Sports Medicine Clinic …
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WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Henry Ford Health System and Acadia Healthcare Co. Inc. have formed a joint venture to build a behavioral health facility in West Bloomfield Township, about 30 miles northwest of Detroit. This week, the West Bloomfield Township Board approved the rezoning request for the parcel of land on which Henry Ford and Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia intend to build the new hospital. Henry Ford already owns the land, which is adjacent to its Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital campus. The next step is to seek a Certificate of Need from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Construction will begin once all regulatory approvals are met. Slated to open in late 2022, the hospital will be able to accommodate 192 beds with the potential to expand to meet future demand for inpatient services in the area. Comprehensive inpatient treatment will be provided for adults, seniors and adolescents who struggle with acute symptoms of mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. The hospital will also serve as an academic site for the training of inpatient psychiatry residents, medical students, nurses and other healthcare professionals. As part of the agreement, Henry Ford …
PEWAUKEE, WIS. — The Boulder Group has negotiated the $4.7 million sale of a property net leased to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Pewaukee, about 20 miles west of Milwaukee. The newly constructed, 11,736-square-foot building is located at 1215 George Towne Drive. The Children’s Hospital lease expires in 2028. Jimmy Goodman and John Feeney of Boulder represented the buyer, a New York-based firm completing a 1031 exchange. A local real estate firm was the seller.
WALTHAM, MASS. — Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. has broken ground on a 139,000-square-foot life sciences project that will be located at 300 Third Ave. in the western Boston suburb of Waltham. Designed by local architecture firm DiMella Shaffer, the building will offer traditional office and lab space, as well as five levels of parking. Callahan Construction Managers is the general contractor for the project, which is expected to be complete in January 2022.
CLIFTON, N.J. — New Jersey-based Prism Capital Partners has received final site plan approval for the development of an 80,000-square-foot medical office building in Clifton, about 20 miles west of New York City. Gensler designed the four-story building, which will be located at the corner of Metro Boulevard and Route 3 on Prism’s ON3 healthcare and life sciences campus. Construction of the project, which is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2021 and to be complete in mid-2022, will include a 400-space parking garage. The project is a build-to-suit for Hackensack Meridian Health.
PHILADELPHIA — A partnership between developers Silverstein Properties and University Place Associates, as well as financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald LP, will develop a 250,000-square-foot life sciences facility in Philadelphia. The property will be named 3.0 University Place in reference to its location within the University City area, a hotbed of life sciences growth. The Steward Partnership is designing the eight-story lab and office building, which is expected to come on line in the fourth quarter of 2022. According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, the project has a price tag of $56 million.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Alter, a commercial real estate developer, has announced plans for a $54 million sports medicine center for Banner Health at its Riverwalk at Talking Stick mixed-use development along Loop 101 at Indian Bend Road in Scottsdale. Preliminary design is underway for the three-story, 80,000-square-foot project, which will offer athletes dedicated sports medicine services. Completion is slated for fourth-quarter 2022. Pat Williams of JLL represented Banner Health, while Kurt Rosene of NOVO Development represented Alter in the project negotiations.
MANTUA TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Mantua Partners LLC and North Bridge Properties will develop a 10-acre medical office and retail project in Mantua Township, located outside Philadelphia in Southern New Jersey. Branded as Mantua Shopping Center & Medical Complex, the property will consist of approximately 77,500 square feet of medical office space and 18,000 square feet of retail space. Construction is scheduled to begin next spring and to be complete in the spring or summer of 2022. Soloff Realty & Development has been tapped to lease the project.
IQHQ Completes $1.7B Capital Raise to Fund 4.4 MSF Life Sciences Development Pipeline
by Katie Sloan
SAN DIEGO AND BOSTON — Life sciences real estate development firm IQHQ Inc. has completed a $1.7 billion equity raise. The company — which completed an initial equity raise of $770 million earlier this year — plans to use the combined funds to build 4.4 million square feet of projects that are currently in its development pipeline. The company has offices in San Diego and Boston, both hubs for life sciences companies. The demand for life sciences real estate continues to increase as the need for vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics intensifies amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an October report by CBRE. Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based CenterSquare Investment Management invested $158 million in IQHQ’s latest funding round, alongside a group of undisclosed new and existing strategic partners. Madison International Realty, a real estate private equity firm, invested $100 million with an option to invest an incremental $100 million in IQHQ. IQHQ’s current projects include sites in Boston, San Francisco and San Diego. The company announced plans to develop the San Diego Research and Development District (RaDD), a $1.5 billion life science campus located along San Diego’s waterfront, in September. The RaDD will span eight acres and three city blocks, making it …
BOSTON — Newmark has brokered the sale of One Alewife Center, a 90,000-square-foot life sciences facility located adjacent to the MBTA Alewife station on the city’s north side. The facility is situated within the 290,000-square-foot Alewife Park office and life sciences campus. Robert Griffin, Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen and Samantha Hallowell of Newmark represented the seller, James Campbell Co., in the transaction. The team also procured life sciences REIT IQHQ as the buyer. IQHQ also purchased the larger Alewife Park campus in July.