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Manhattan’s skyline is slated to gain a nice addition: a 21-story outpatient facility (center) for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Connected to it would be the 16-story Hunter College Science and Health Professions Center. (Rendering courtesy of Memorial Sloan-Kettering)

Outpatient Projects: Huge cancer center planned for NYC

Former city-owned site will be home to 21-story, 750,000 square foot facility By John B. Mugford In the heart of perhaps the world’s most costly real estate market – Manhattan – building a new outpatient healthcare facility can be quite an undertaking, and an expensive one at that. If you’re going to build something, you […]

Physicians Medical Center is for sale. (Photo courtesy of CBRE)

Hot Property: MOB touted as value-add opportunity

Medical property in Daly City, Calif, is available for less than replacement cost Property: Physicians Medical Center Address: 901 Campus Dr. City, State: Daly City, Calif. Size: Three stories, 75,559 square feet Asking price: Not disclosed Year completed: 1989 Seller: Serramonte Ridge Medical Center Enterprises Tenants: Campus Surgery Center, others Broker: CBRE Group Inc. DALY […]

The two-story, 50,000 square foot Michiana Hematology Oncology MOB in Mishawaka, Ind., was one of six acquisitions that ARC Healthcare Trust Inc. closed on during December. The purchase price was $21.7 million, or $434 per square foot. (Photo courtesy of ARC Healthcare Trust Inc.)

Transactions: ARC Healthcare closes strong in 2012

Unlisted REIT makes six buys in December, wrapping up a busy fourth quarter By John B. Mugford As 2012 came to a close, all indications – as well as the words of medical office buildings (MOB) sales brokers and investors – were pointing to a strong fourth quarter (Q4) for the nationwide sales volume of […]

HOK HAS A NEW ANGLE ON HOSPITAL ROOM DESIGN

HOK HAS A NEW ANGLE ON HOSPITAL ROOM DESIGN

The parallelogram might be the hot new shape in the design of safe, efficient hospital rooms. When designing patient rooms, architects know that putting washrooms close to beds is a must. That shortens the distance patients must walk to use the facilities, reducing the risk of falls. The trouble is, that also tends to at […]

Health City Cayman Islands is scheduled to open a 140-bed hospital tertiary care hospital by the end of this year. (Rendering and photo (courtesy of Health City Cayman Islands)

THE ISLANDS ARE CALLING

We don’t normally report on healthcare real estate developments taking place in foreign countries. However, a partnership of a hospital company from India and St. Louis-based Ascension Health Alliance, the for-profit venture of not-for-profit St. Louis-based Ascension Health, continues to make progress on the construction of its interesting and eventually massive “health city” in the […]

Industry Pulse: 40%

Industry Pulse: 40%

That’s the percentage of medical office buildings (MOBs) acquired by publicly listed REITs in 2012, based on total sales volume and preliminary data from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) Inc.

Jim Cramer (Photo courtesy of TheStreet.com)

‘THE STREET’ SAYS HEALTHCARE REITS ARE THE REAL DEAL

Most people involved in healthcare real estate believe the sector will be strong in 2013, both in terms of sales, development, net operating income (NOI) and returns. A well-known investment website, The Street, which includes among its contributors Jim Cramer of Mad Money, agrees. For its readers to profit from the predicted strong year ahead […]

Capital Markets: Uncertainty ebbs with Obama’s reelection

Activity likely to increase now that fate of healthcare reform is largely resolved The capital markets continue to reflect the combined efforts of most major central banks to depress interest rates to promote more rapid economic growth and (hopefully) higher employment. The U.S. Federal Reserve’s efforts are meant to seek price stability and full employment, […]

HEALTHCARE’S OTHER ‘RETAIL STRATEGY’

HEALTHCARE’S OTHER ‘RETAIL STRATEGY’

Much has been said recently about creating a “retail strategy.” But most of those discussions have been focused on the idea of putting healthcare services in retail locations. What about the much older strategy of putting retail services in healthcare facilities? That idea is still alive and well – and is perhaps more important than […]

American Healthcare Investors LLC

American Healthcare Investors LLC

American Healthcare Investors 4000 MacArthur Blvd., West Tower, Suite 200 Newport Beach, CA 92660 949-270-9200 • www.americanhealthcareinvestors.com American Healthcare Investors LLC is an investment management firm that specializes in the acquisition and management of healthcare-related real estate, including medical office buildings, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and hospitals. The company is the co-sponsor of […]

American Realty Capital Healthcare Advisors LLC

American Realty Capital Healthcare Advisors LLC

American Realty Capital Healthcare Advisors LLC 405 Park Ave., 15th Floor, New York, NY 10022 212-415-6500 • www.thehealthcarereit.com American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust is a publicly registered, non-traded real estate investment trust focused on the acquisition of healthcare facilities. ARCHT has built a portfolio of approximately $600 million totaling 2.0 million square feet. We anticipate […]

Archway Holdings Corp.

Archway Holdings Corp.

Archway Holdings Corp. 420 S. Beverly Dr., Suite 260, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 310-276-7600 • SeanM@ArchwayCo.com Archway Holdings Corp. is part of a privately held group of companies that invests in Healthcare Real Estate in California and Arizona, also focuses on partnering with Regional and National Practice Groups, and Hospitals in building Specialty Projects. Current […]

Avison Young

Avison Young

Avison Young 120 N. LaSalle, Suite 3300, Chicago, IL 60602 202-644-8681 • www.avisonyoung.com The client-centric approach of Avison Young’s national specialized healthcare practice provides intelligent and integrated solutions for medical office sales, leasing and consulting clients.The nationally-recognized experts of our full-service healthcare group bring specialized experience to partnerships with our clients. Avison Young was founded […]

Cambridge Healthcare Properties

Cambridge Healthcare Properties

Cambridge Healthcare Properties 1717 Main St., 59th Floor, Dallas, TX 75201 214-871-7337 • www.cambridgeinc.com Cambridge Healthcare Properties specializes exclusively in healthcare real estate. Since 1987, Cambridge has developed, acquired, leased and managed medical buildings across the United States in association with leading health systems and physicians we’re proud to call our clients, tenants and partners. […]

Colliers International

Colliers International

Colliers International 601 Union St., Suite 4800, Seattle, WA 98101 206-695-4200 • www.colliers.com Colliers International is the leader in global real estate services, defined by our spirit of enterprise. Through a culture of service excellence, and a shared sense of initiative, we have integrated the resources of real estate specialists worldwide to accelerate the success […]