Healthcare

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — A joint venture between New Jersey-based Atkins Cos. and private equity firm Capital Solutions has sold a 95,000-square-foot medical office building located in the Northern New Jersey city of Bridgewater. At the time of sale, the building was fully leased to Bank of America and MidJersey Health Corp., a joint venture between regional healthcare providers Hunterdon Healthcare and Atlantic Health System. Ben Appel, Jay Miele, John Nero and Michael Greeley of Newmark represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Englewood Health, a New Jersey-based healthcare provider, has signed a 19,892-square-foot lease expansion at 2 Journal Square in Jersey City. The expanded space will allow the provider to add a new orthopedic clinic, an urgent care, breast and women’s imaging center and medical offices for treating oncology and diabetes patients. CBRE’s Greg Barkan, Remy deVarenne and Sam Bernhaudt represented Englewood Health, which originally signed a 53,222-square-foot lease this summer, in the lease negotiations. GAIA Real Estate owns the building.

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WATERTOWN, MASS. — Engineering and construction management firm DPS Group has completed Phase I of an 80,000-square-foot life sciences project at 650 Pleasant St. in the western Boston suburb of Watertown. The facility will be used as a manufacturing plant for biotechnology firm Arranta Bio. Architecture firm TRIA designed the project.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Davis Medical Investors LLC has acquired an eight-property, 309,735-square-foot medical office portfolio for $112 million. The Minneapolis-based buyer acquired the assets through a new fund backed by Capital One. Three of the buildings were purchased from Davis Medical Investors-affiliated partnerships and the other five were acquired from undisclosed, third-party sellers. The portfolio comprises three properties in Minnesota, three in Tennessee and one each in Ohio and Connecticut. The acquisitions in Tennessee and Connecticut represent Davis Medical Investors’ entry into those markets. The portfolio was 99 percent leased at the time of sale with an average lease term of more than eight years. The buildings in the portfolio are an average of 10 years old. According to Mark Davis, founder and managing partner at Davis Medical Investors, the fund will be able to acquire more than 20 medical office buildings totaling up to $240 million. “Despite some of the acquisitions being temporarily put on hiatus because of COVID-19, we stayed in close contact with the sellers to ensure we successfully brought these deals to fruition,” says Stewart Davis, executive vice president of investments at Davis Medical Investors. The properties in the portfolio include: M Health-Fairview in Minneapolis, which is …

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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Blackstone (NYSE: BX) has acquired a 2.3 million-square-foot life sciences portfolio in Cambridge, located across the Charles River from Boston, for approximately $3.4 billion. The seller was Brookfield Asset Management. The majority of the properties in the portfolio are located in East Cambridge, adjacent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus, and are leased to investment-grade tenants with both traditional office and lab requirements. Following the closing of the deal, which is scheduled for the first quarter of 2021, Blackstone will be the largest owner of life sciences space in Cambridge. Blackstone is acquiring the portfolio through BioMed Realty, its $20 billion subsidiary that launched in 2018 and is focused on life sciences properties. “This transaction illustrates Blackstone’s continued conviction in the life sciences space, both broadly and within real estate, and in investing in best-in-class assets located adjacent to top-tier research and education institutions,” says Nadeem Meghji, head of real estate in the Americas for Blackstone. Cambridge continues to be a hub for development and leasing of life sciences properties. In November, locally based developer King Street Properties partnered with California-based Healthpeak Properties to break ground on a $170 million life sciences facility that will …

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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