Companies & People: Kaiser selects Hammes Co. for six-story, 275,000 s.f. MOB as part of Colorado expansion
LONE TREE, Colo. – Hammes Co. was selected by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente to provide staff augmentation services for the provider’s future 275,000 square foot, six-story freestanding MOB in Lone Tree. Brookfield, Wis.-based Hammes Co. is providing project management, cost control, schedule review and change order administration for the project, which is slated for completion […]
Companies & People: Transwestern brokers 17,000 s.f. medical office lease in repurposed office complex
SAN RAMON, Calif. – Transwestern’s East Bay, Calif., office recently brokered a long-term lease of more than 17,000 square feet of medical office space in a newly repurposed two-building complex in San Ramon, Calif. The new tenant is IntegraMed America, a specialty healthcare services provider, which signed a lease at the Park Place Medical Building, […]
Companies & People: RJ King Associates Healthcare Real Estate brokers sale of Florida MOB
TAMPA, Fla. – RJ King Associates Healthcare Real Estate reports that it recently arranged the sale of Northside Medical Plaza, a three-story, 54,000 square foot medical office building (MOB) in St. Petersburg, Fla. Phillip Faircloth, senior VP investments, and Robert J. King, CEO, handled the transaction for the Tampa-based healthcare real estate services firm. The […]
Companies & People: Healthcare Real Estate Capital provides services for Yale-New Haven Hospital
NEW YORK – Healthcare Real Estate Capital (HRE Capital) recently completed marketing and transaction services on the completion of a sale-leaseback of various properties for Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn. The transaction involved a 53,000 square foot office and retail building, a 24-unit extended stay hotel and an 845-space parking garage – all […]
Companies & People: Cain Brothers assists large Texas systems in merger effort
TEXAS – In December, two large Texas health systems signed a letter of intent (LOI) to form what would be the state’s largest system, a $7.7 billion organization. New York-based Cain Brothers & Co. LLC was hired by the Texas systems, Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System and Temple-based Scott & White, to assist with the […]
Companies & People: JLL to advise large W. Va. system
Firm collaborating with four-hospital, 4 million s.f. Charleston Area Medical Center By John B. Mugford Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) in Charleston, W.Va., is comprised of four hospitals with about 840 beds and nearly 4 million square feet of owned and leased space. In a move that is considered a growing trend, the health system […]
Thought Leaders: Jones Lang LaSalle sees hospital’s move to aggressive ambulatory care unit strategies accelerating
Focused effort leads to broader outreach and improved efficiencies CHICAGO, March 4, 2013— Healthcare reform and ongoing financial and operational pressures are having significant influence on how hospitals and healthcare systems define and execute ambulatory care unit (ACU) strategies. The cumulative effect of these influencers is a further and accelerated modification of the hub and […]
Feature Story: 2013 and beyond
Last year’s top 10 stories and trends – and what they can tell us about the future By John B. Mugford In healthcare real estate (HRE), a story and a trend seem to blend together. While a big transaction involving the sale a medical office building (MOB) portfolio at a low capitalization (cap) rate is […]
REIT Report: Reaffirmation of reform: Good for REITs
Healthcare real estate investment trusts likely to benefit from implementation By Murray W. Wolf Editor’s note: This “new” department, including the Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ REIT Index™, might be familiar to longtime readers. The REIT Index was a regular feature of HREI™ until it was discontinued in 2005. But with the growing importance of publicly […]
Companies & People: Lorie Damon, formerly of BOMA, joins Raymond James | Morgan Keegan as VP
ST. LOUIS – Lorie Damon, well-known for leading the organization of BOMA International’s annual Medical Office Buildings & Healthcare Facilities Conference during the past decade, recently joined the healthcare real estate (HRE) practice at Raymond James | Morgan Keegan. She is a VP in the firm’s St. Louis office and will work with Laca Wong-Hammond, […]
Companies & People: Big finish to 2012 for Griffin-American
Unlisted healthcare REIT acquired 14 properties in December, including nine MOBs By John B. Mugford Even though there is a supposed lack of healthcare real estate facilities on the market, Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc. has certainly found plenty of properties to meet its needs recently. One of the most prolific buyers of healthcare […]
Post-Acute & Senior Living: At last, the long LTACH moratorium ends
After 5 years, will expiration mean a surge of activity in the post-acute space? By John B. Mugford At long last – after five years, in fact – the federal government’s moratorium on the development of new long-term care hospitals (LTACHs), as well as the expansion of existing ones, has finally come to an end. […]
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 […]
Q & A: Seavest Healthcare as active as ever
PRESIDENT DOUG RAY DISCUSSES RECENT $332 MILLION SALE, FIRM’S STRATEGY By John Mugford Throughout the era in which the medical office building (MOB) sector has grown up and gained prominence as a significant asset class, White Plains, N.Y.-based Seavest Healthcare Properties has been involved as an investor in both the development and acquisition of such […]
Companies: Developer finishes third cancer center
OPTIMAL OUTCOMES OPENS 36,000 FACILITY IN TAMPA, FLA., FOR GROWING GROUP By John Mugford For St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Optimal Outcomes LLC, developing comprehensive cancers centers has become a strong niche among the services it offers. In fact, the healthcare development firm recently completed a new 36,000 square foot, $9.5 million cancer center in Tampa, Fla., […]