AMARILLO, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of 3501 MedCenter, a 145,096-square-foot medical office property in Amarillo. The property is situated on 11 acres and was originally built as a retail center in 1986 before being converted to healthcare in 1995. Alex Vidal of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a locally based partnership led by McCartt Commercial Real Estate Services, in the transaction. Vidal also sourced the buyer, Equity Velocity Fund, which acquired the asset at an occupancy rate of 91 percent.
OSWEGO, ILL. — IRA Capital, a Southern California-based private equity firm, has acquired the Edward-Elmhurst Health Center in Oswego, located about 45 miles southwest of Chicago. It is fully leased to Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare, which was created by the merger of Edward Hospital and Elmhurst Memorial. The 15,500-square-foot outpatient medical facility was constructed as a build-to-suit for the hospital system. Services at the property include imaging, women’s health, urgent care and lab services. The building is situated 14 miles from Edward Hospital in Naperville. The purchase price and seller were undisclosed.
SEATTLE — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has launched two pharmacy offerings — Amazon Pharmacy and Amazon Prime prescription savings benefit — enabling customers to purchase and complete prescription medication transactions, as well as access savings on medications when paying without insurance, through the Amazon website or its mobile app. Starting this week, customers age 18 or older will have access to Amazon Pharmacy services in 45 states, excluding Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana and Minnesota. The pharmacy service will accept most forms of insurance and offer discounts on generic and brand-name medications when paying without insurance. As of close on Tuesday, Nov. 17, Amazon shares rose 0.15 percent to $3,135.66. However, stocks of national pharmacies tumbled following the company’s announcement. CVS/pharmacy dropped 8.6 percent, Walgreens lost 9.6 percent and Rite Aid dipped 16.3 percent. Additionally, GoodRx, which helps customers find the best prices on medications, slid 22.5 percent.
CARMICHAEL, CALIF. — Blue Sky has purchased a medical office property located at 6555 Coyle Ave. in Carmichael. A private investment group sold the asset for an undisclosed price. Situated on Mercy San Juan Medical Center campus, the building features 99,000 square feet of specialty medical office space. Dignity Health is a tenant at the property. Blue Sky acquires, builds, finances and operates facilities for and on behalf of mission-based organizations to deliver optimate cost savings and solutions. Bill Swettenham and Eric Ortiz of The Swettenham Ortiz Healthcare Team at Colliers International represented the buyer in the deal.
CONROE, TEXAS — VGXI Inc., a biotechnology firm that supports the gene therapy and DNA vaccine industries, will open a new life sciences and headquarters facility in Conroe, about 40 miles north of Houston. Local media outlets, including Community Impact Newspaper and the Houston Business Journal, report that the facility will span 240,000 square feet. The company’s new space will be located within Deison Technology Park and will allow VGXI to quintuple its current production capacity. BE&K Building Group is handling the design and build of the project. Construction is underway, and the facility is expected to be operational by the first quarter of 2022.
ITASCA, ILL. — Stan Johnson Co. has arranged the sale of a 50,000-square-foot medical office building in Itasca, a western suburb of Chicago, for $20.6 million. The Class A property is located at 870 N. Arlington Heights Road. It is fully leased to a publicly traded healthcare services company under a 15-year net lease. The single-story building sits on six acres and includes traditional office space in addition to specialty pharmacy spaces, walk-in freezers and clean rooms. Construction of the property finished in August of this year. John Zimmerman and Craig Tomlinson of Stan Johnson represented the seller, a regional developer. A private group focused on single-tenant acquisitions was the buyer.
WALTHAM, MASS. — Translate Bio, an RNA therapeutics company, has signed a 10-year, 138,000-square-foot life sciences lease at 200 West St. in the western Boston suburb of Waltham. Boston Properties (NYSE: BXP) is currently redeveloping the site into a lab property that is slated for completion in 2021 and that is now 100 percent preleased. Building amenities will include a full-service café, fitness center and conferencing facilities. According to the Boston Business Journal, Translate Bio is working with the vaccine unit of pharmaceutical giant Sanofi to use messenger RNA to synthesize antibodies that can fight COVID-19.
INDIANA, ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of a medical office portfolio spanning seven properties and 439,000 square feet for an undisclosed price. The assets are primarily located on hospital campuses in metro areas within Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. The Class A portfolio is 93 percent leased to healthcare systems such as Ascension, Franciscan, AMITA and University of Missouri Health. Mindy Berman, Daniel Turley, Tim Joyce and Brannan Knott of JLL represented the undisclosed seller. Healthpeak Properties Inc. purchased the portfolio.
BOSTON — Locally based biotechnology firm Ginkgo Bioworks has signed a 38,759-square-foot life sciences lease at 10 Wilson Road in the Cambridge area of Boston. The new space is located within The Quad, a four-building, 510,000-square-foot campus that is being developed in phases by The Davis Companies. McKenna Teague and Erick Smith of CBRE represented the developer in the lease negotiations. Anne Columbia and Patrick Downey of Columbia Group Realty Advisors Inc. represented the tenant.
GREENFIELD, WIS. — Montecito Medical Real Estate has acquired Aurora Health Center at 84South, a surgical center and medical office building in Greenfield, a suburb of Milwaukee. The purchase price was undisclosed. Built in 2019, the 130,000-square-foot, five-story facility is fully leased to Advocate Aurora Health. It is situated within the larger mixed-use development known as 84South. The property is one of the largest outpatient ambulatory sites for Advocate Aurora Health with eight surgical suites, two pain management procedure rooms, four gastroenterology suites and outpatient interventional radiological suites. The building also serves as a central location for Aurora Children’s Health Services and Aurora’s Sports Health Services. Advocate Aurora Health operates 27 acute care hospitals and employs roughly 3,700 physicians across Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois.