Outpatient Projects (March 2006)

Rendina completes South Carolina MOB

DES PERES HOSPITAL ALSO SELECTS THE FIRM TO DEVELOP ST. LOUIS FACILITY

 

By Murray W. Wolf

 

Rendina Cos. has completed one medical office building (MOB) in Spartanburg, S.C., and has been selected to develop another in St. Louis.

The Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.-based firm recently announced that it has completed work on the $16.3 million, four-story, 109,500 square foot Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas.  The new medical facility is located on the campus of Mary Black Health System in Spartanburg, S.C.

The Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas houses the renowned Steadman Hawkins Orthopedic Group, a diagnostic imaging center, an orthopedic rehabilitation center, physician medical suites, and an 8,000 square foot conference center for patient and staff education. 

Mary Black Memorial Hospital is a 209-bed acute care hospital with a medical staff of 350 physicians. Mary Black Health System is a unit of Triad Hospitals Inc. (NYSE: TRI), a longtime client of Rendina Cos.

‘This on-campus specialized medical office development will potentially revolutionize our health care system, with physicians sharing essential services in conjunction with hospital core functions,’ Mary Black Hospital CEO Glenn Robinson said in a prepared statement.

McMillan, Smith & Partners Architects PLLC of Charleston, S.C. was the project architect.  M.B. Kahn Construction Co. of Columbia, S.C., was the general contractor.

Rendina Cos. also recently announced that it has been selected to develop a two-story, 50,000 square foot MOB on the campus of Des Peres Hospital, a 167-bed acute care facility in St. Louis, Mo. The new MOB is to be connected to both the existing Des Peres Medical Arts Pavilion I and the Des Peres Hospital.

The building, which will accommodate up to about 25 physicians representing a variety of specialties, will be the second MOB on the Des Peres campus.

Rendina Cos. says it will provide all project funding and will be responsible for all project development and management from start to finish. The firm says that physician-tenants will own ‘a significant portion’ of the MOB.

Hastings & Chivetta of St. Louis is the project architect. SM Wilson of  St. Louis is the general contractor.

Rendina Cos. is one of the nation’s largest full-service medical real estate development firms, with more than $1 billion in projects completed, under development or planned.

Providence plans

$48.9 million

project in Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Providence Alaska Medical Center is wrapping up construction of a $48.9 million, 182,378 square foot capital improvement project on its campus in Anchorage. The project includes a five-story, 116,000 square foot MOB; a 440-space parking garage; and a 65,000 square foot sky bridge to connect the new structures to the existing hospital.

A Providence spokeswoman says that the medical center needed the additional space to accommodate growing demand by physicians, especially specialists. Alaska Heart Institute is slated to be the anchor tenant, occupying three floors.

Planning began about two years ago and completion is scheduled for late April.

RIM Architects is the project architect and Davis Constructors is the general contractor.

Beaumont plans

$47 million

healthcare facility

COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The Commerce Township Downtown Development Authority (DDA), the township board and William Beaumont Hospital have agreed on the sale of 35 acres of land owned by the DDA for construction of a new $47 million, 140,000 square foot healthcare facility. The project was announced Feb. 22.

Plans call for a freestanding emergency center, physician offices, diagnostic imaging, laboratory services and an ambulatory surgery center. Construction is expected to take place in the next 18 months with completion in fall 2007.

The DDA spent about $9 million and two years assembling the site from multiple properties.

Beaumont has hospitals in Royal Oak and Troy, Mich., six community-based medical centers, a rehabilitation/health center, several primary and specialty care clinics, four extended care facilities, a research institute, a home care service and a hospice.

The Beaumont project will have plenty of company. Other healthcare projects planned or under way in the area include:

• § Huron Valley Sinai Hospital in Commerce Township, which is building a 73,000-square-foot MOB at the hospital complex. The building is slated to be completed next year.
• § The Henry Ford Health System campus in West Bloomfield, Mich., plans to achieve hospital status by 2007 by adding 300 beds.
• § Providence Hospital in Novi, Mich., also plans to bring its Providence Park facility up to hospital status, more than doubling the size of the facility by 2008.

 

Kaiser plans

$40 million

MOB and clinic

SAN FRANCISCO – Kaiser Permanente plans to build a roughly $40 million, five-story, 69,000 square foot MOB and clinic near its Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center.

The giant HMO’s plans call for the building to house the hospital’s outpatient pediatric and transplantation departments, physician offices, a pharmacy, radiological and breast/lactation services, and an adolescent clinic. Some of the users of the new MOB are to be relocated from a 55-year-old building near the main hospital. Kaiser’s plans for that structure have not been disclosed.

Kaiser says it plans to start construction within the next few years. The site is currently occupied by a low-income housing complex, which city laws will require Kaiser to replace.

For the record

OhioHealth plans to develop a $35 million, three-building, 196,000 square foot outpatient health center on 42 acres in Westerville, Ohio. Phase one would entail a 116,000 square foot ambulatory surgery and health center and a 40,000 square foot MOB. Another 40,000 square foot MOB would follow when the first one is near capacity. OhioHealth officials hope to have secured city approval by the summer. Completion of the first phase is slated for fall 2007… Lillibridge Health Care Real Estate Trust plans to develop a 156,000 square foot MOB on 22.65 acres on the campus of Penn State Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center. The space will be leased to the medical center. The Penn State University Board of Trustees voted recently to approve a 29-year land lease at a rate of $8,000 per year, plus periodic escalations. At the end of the lease, the MOB and other improvements are to revert to the university upon payment of the fair market value. In turn, upon completion of the building, Lillibridge will lease the facility to the medical center… The master-planned community of Connerton, Fla., and University Community Hospital (UCH) have joint plans to develop a 90,000 square foot MOB in Connerton Commerce Park, the town’s industrial, office and service complex. A diagnostic imaging center and urgent care facility are also being considered. UCH also plans to develop a long-term acute care hospital on an adjacent site. The hospital plan will need approval by the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration… Nueterra Real Estate is developing a three-story, $14 million MOB adjacent to Saint Luke’s South Hospital in Overland Park, Kan…. PM Realty Group of Houston plans to develop, lease, own and manage the $12.5 million, three-story, 60,000 square foot CyFair Professional Building next to Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center in Houston. The land is jointly owned by PM Realty and AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp. of New York. PM Realty plans to break ground this spring and completion is anticipated late this fall… Cirrus Health of Trophy Club, Texas, plans to develop the 70,000 square foot the California Heart and Surgical Hospital on 6.33 acres in Loma Linda, Calif. The for-profit specialty hospital is being developed in partnership with physicians. A 25,000 square foot MOB is also planned. Construction was slated to begin early this year… Methodist Health System is developing a four-story, 100,000 square foot MOB and a three-level, 700-space parking garage in Dallas. HKS Inc. of Dallas is the project architect… North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System has opened the $17 million, 37,000 square foot Monter Cancer Center at its Center for Advanced Medicine in Lake Success, N.Y. Construction of a second phase is slated to begin this summer and to be completed in 2007… Omni West Group of Irvine, Calif., has started construction of Paseo del Sol Medical Center in Chino, Calif. The general contractor is Brea, Calif.-based HMC Construction. Completion is slated for spring 2006… Sterling Group of Detroit is developing a 28,750 square foot MOB in Southfield, Mich., for Weissman Gitlin Herkowitz MD PC. A3C Collaborative Architecture of Ann Arbor, Mich., is the project architect. Construction is to start in the spring of 2007 and the building is to be completed by early in 2008… The Houston office of Cadence McShane Corp. recently completed a one-story, 31,500 square foot MOB at Bellville (Texas) General Hospital. Wingfield/Sears Group Inc. was the project architect… Vernon Memorial Healthcare of Viroqua, Wis., expects to open a new $19 million, four-story MOB and clinic within the next few weeks… Midland (Texas) Memorial Hospital recently broke ground for a $15 million, 89,000 square foot MOB… Sutter Regional Medical Foundation has signed a 25,000 square foot lease in Bluerock Partners LLC’s new two-story, 38,000 square foot MOB in Antioch, Calif…. Portland, Maine, officials are mulling a proposal from Martin’s Point Health Care to build a two-story MOB and clinic and three-level, 152-space parking garage. The not-for-profit healthcare agency also plans to renovate the historic former U.S. Marine Hospital, which was built in 1859, and possibly use it as an elder daycare facility. PDT Architects of Portland and engineering firm DeLuca-Hoffman Associates of South Portland have been working on the design… A groundbreaking is scheduled to take place this month for a new 9,500 square foot building for the Center for Women’s Health of Wichita, Kan. The OB/GYN practice recently purchased more than 1 acre of land within the Wilson Estates Medical Park in Wichita for the project. Architectural Innovations is the project architect and Dondlinger & Sons Construction Co. is the general contractor. A fall opening is planned… Anchor Health Properties of Wilmington, Del., has broken ground for the 70,000 square foot Hazleton Health and Wellness Center in Hazle Township, Pa. The project, which is designed to integrate medical care with personal health/wellness services, is a partnership of Greater Hazleton Health Alliance and physician investors. Completion is slated for December… An $11 million-plus, 60,375 square foot MOB is scheduled to open by January 2007 on the campus of Lakewood Ranch (Fla.) Medical Center. The new building is more than 50 percent pre-leased. A twin MOB opened in January 2003. NDC Development Co. is the developer, HKS Architects is the project architect and Gold Bank is providing financing. q