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Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center in Dallas recently earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star certification. The building was developed and is managed by Indianapolis-based Duke Realty Corp. (NYSE: DRE). The designation signifies that the building performs in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency and that it […]

Inpatient Projects: Fort Bliss to get $648 million, 1.1 million square foot replacement medical center

EL PASO, Texas – Construction is set to begin on the $648 million, 630,000 square foot William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss. The project will include a seven-story hospital, two clinic buildings, an administrative building, a biosafety-equipped, clinical investigation building, laboratories, and a central utility plant.

Transactions: Los Angeles MOB garners a whopping price of $847 per square foot

LOS ANGELES ­– A once-speculative Los Angeles MOB that now houses the DaVita Westwood UCLA  Dialysis Clinic recently fetched a whopping $847 PSF in a transaction that closed in recent weeks. The sale price for the three-story, 17,825 square foot building at 10630 Santa Monica Blvd. was $15 million.

Inpatient Projects: Ground broken for New Sibley Memorial in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Construction began July 1 on what is being called the New Sibley Memorial Hospital. Essentially, the hospital campus is being rebuilt, with the recent groundbreaking marking the start of construction on a 469,000 square foot, 200-bed facility on the campus in northwest Washington. The hospital, owned by Johns Hopkins Medicine, will include […]

Industry Pulse: On The Record

Industry Pulse: On The Record

  What MOB acquisitions opportunities are you seeing? “We continue to see plenty of opportunity to acquire individual properties, ranging from $20 million to $50 million at attractive cap rates of about 7 percent on average.” Todd J. Meredith EVP of Investments, Healthcare Realty Trust   Will kind of cap rates are you seeing for […]

Job growth is helping to fuel projects like this Presence Health facility in Chicago.
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Industry Pulse: Healthcare Sector Leads Jobs Growth

A new report reminds us why HRE is a good business. In its recent “Healthcare Metro Monitor Supplement,” the Brookings Institution reports that the U.S. healthcare industry added 2.6 million jobs during the past decade. That was an increase of 22.7 percent, far exceeding the 2.1 percent growth rate in all other industries.

Companies & People: Perkins+Will designed rehab hospital opens in Boston-area navy yard

CHARLESTOWN, Mass. – A 262,000 square foot rehabilitation hospital designed by Chicago-based Perkins+Will recently opened on a remediated brownfield parcel in the Charlestown Navy Yard just outside of Boston. The $225 million Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital replaces an aging, 42-year-old facility on the banks of the Charles River.

More Outpatient Projects

Meadows Healthcare Alliance, which operates Meadows Regional Hospital in Vidalia, Ga., recently acquired a former manufacturing complex for what officials are calling a “future medical development.” Hospital officials have yet to provide details about what the health system has planned for the 44.2-acre site, which is home to the 187,000 square foot building that formerly […]