Industry Pulse: December 2010
TYLER, Texas – The Obama administration has endured plenty of backlash over the passage of healthcare reform, with numerous states filing lawsuits against the federal government in an effort to repeal the law. In addition,a whole slew of Republican congressional hopefuls ran on a platform of overturning the law. For the companies and professionals involved […]
LaSalle Group breaks ground for Tulsa assisted living facility
THE LASALLE GROUP, inc. MOVES INTO NEW TERRITORY OPENING ITS unique brand of SPECIALIZED MEMORY CARE communities IN THE TULSA MARKETLeading Real Estate Developer Constructs State-of-the-Art Facility Dedicated Specifically to Alzheimer’s and Memory Care in Tulsa, OKTulsa, OK – November 29, 2010 – Dallas-based developer The LaSalle Group, Inc. is breaking ground on its first […]
Companies: Duke Realty chosen to develop MOB
REX HEALTHCARE SELECTS FIRM TO BUILD FACILITY IN RALEIGH, N.C., SUBURB By John Mugford Raleigh, N.C.-based Rex Healthcare recently selected Indianapolis-based Duke Realty Corp. (NYSE: DRE) as the developer of a two-story, 30,000 square foot medical office building (MOB) in the fast-growing Raleigh suburb of Holly Springs. A ground breaking was held in recent weeks […]
Companies: Firm buys doc-owned Houston hospital
NORVIN PARTNERS ACQUIRES REAL ESTATE, ARRANGES JOINT VENTURE OPERATOR By John Mugford In a deal put together by New York-based Norvin Properties and its managing partner and founder, Norman K. Livingston, Houston-based St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System recently acquired 51 percent of a new joint venture that is operating Patients Medical Center (PMC) in Pasadena, […]
Transactions: Medical portfolio selling for $470M
SENIOR HOUSING PROPERTIES TRUST AGREES TO BUY 27 BUILDINGS IN 12 STATES By John Mugford When Seniors Housing Properties Trust was spun out of HRPT Properties Trust in 1999 as a publicly traded healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT), it retained the right of first refusal on a number of medical properties that HRPT – […]
News & Analysis: MOB sales jumped in Q3
VOLUME TOPPED $1 BILLION; FIRST TIME SINCE Q2 2008 By John Mugford Anyone hoping for a bounce back in medical office building (MOB) sales starting in the second half of 2010 certainly got what they wished for. For the third quarter (Q3), which ended Sept. 30, MOB sales totaled $1.083 billion, according to data compiled […]
Editor’s Letter: The new wait-and-see
OVERTURNING REFORM IS UNLIKELY, BUT CHANGES LINGER By John B. Mugford Dear Reader: Whenever we have a chance, we here at Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ ask our sources whether they believe the healthcare reform law might be overturned. With all of the backlash and outrage occurring over some aspects of the law, could new politicians […]
Market Focus: Denver healthcare market is not rocky
$2 BILLION IN MEDICAL REAL ESTATE PROJECTS ARE UNDER WAY OR PLANNED By John Mugford One of the great things about Denver is the magnificent backdrop. No matter where one stands in the metropolitan area, he or she is sure to find a great view of the snow-topped Rocky Mountains off to the west. Those […]
Companies: Clark, McCarthy land big Navy project
STIMULUS DOLLARS FUEL JV TO BUILD 500,000 S.F. HOSPITAL AT CAMP PENDLETON By John Mugford A joint venture of Clark Construction Group of Bethesda, Md., and McCarthy Building Co. of San Diego recently received a $394 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the construction of a 500,000 square foot, 67-bed hospital at Marine Corps […]
Q&A: Braun sees opportunities
NEW COGDELL CEO DISCUSSES COMPANY, INDUSTRY By John Mugford As far as James W. “Jim” Cogdell is concerned, the newly named chief executive officer (CEO) and president of the company that he founded back in the early 1970s has what it takes to lead the firm, Cogdell Spencer Erdman (NYSE: CSA), to the “next level […]
Product Focus: Proton Beam centers taking off
DESPITE HIGH COSTS, ENTITIES FORGING AHEAD WITH CENTERS AROUND COUNTRY By Jessica Griffith When ProVision Healthcare LLC solidified its plans for a comprehensive cancer campus in Knoxville, Tenn., it was a “no-brainer” to include a proton therapy center. “Right now, proton therapy is one of the most cutting-edge treatments you can receive,” says Scott Warwick, […]
Q&A: Joe Kurzydym of Lillibridge (August 2006)
By Murray W. Wolf Joe Kurzydym is an executive vice president (EVP) and the chief financial officer with Lillibridge, a Chicago-based healthcare real estate firm that owns or manages 10 million square feet of medical properties for more than 250 hospitals and health systems in more than 40 states. Headed by namesake president and CEO […]
Companies & People (January 2006)
COMPANIES A joint venture of Paric Corp. and Barton Malow Co. is building the $75 million, five-story, 180,000 square foot, 72-bed Progress West HealthCare Center on 48 acres in O’Fallon, Mo. St. Louis-based Paric and Southfield, Mich.-based Barton Malow say the project will be completed next year. St. Louis-based HOK is the project architect… Minneapolis-based […]
Financing & Investment: Health Management buys three hospitals for $279 million
NAPLES, Fla. – Health Management Associates Inc. (NYSE: HMA) of Naples in recent weeks announced that it has purchased three hospitals for $279.1 million from Marriottsville, Md.-based Bon Secours Health System.
Medical Properties Trust to buy, develop MOBs and hospitals
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Medical Properties Trust Inc. (NYSE: MPW proposed) of Birmingham has entered into agreements to acquire an acute-care hospital and medical office building (MOB) in southern California, and to develop a hospital and MOB in Pennsylvania. The total investment is expected to be about $83 million.