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Feature Story: 2015 HREI Insights Awards Finalists: Best New MOB (50,000-99,999 S.F.)

Feature Story: 2015 HREI Insights Awards Finalists: Best New MOB (50,000-99,999 S.F.)

Minnetonka Medical Center, Minnetonka, Minn. Developer: The Davis Group After unsuccessfully searching for more than year for a clinic site in Minnetonka, an affluent Minneapolis suburb, North Memorial Health Care brought in The Davis Group. Davis not only identified a site, it assembled the needed 5.2 acres by aggressively negotiating purchase agreements for seven commercial […]

Feature Story: 2015 HREI Insights Awards Finalists: Best Inpatient Facility

Feature Story: 2015 HREI Insights Awards Finalists: Best Inpatient Facility

St. Anthony North Health Campus, Westminster, Colo. Developer: Centura Health The city of Westminster, north of Denver, desired healthcare services focused on whole body care, health and wellness. That was the impetus for the new St. Anthony North Health Campus, which some call the “hospital of the future.” The campus includes 92 private rooms, three […]

Feature Story: Greater than the sum of its parts

Feature Story: Greater than the sum of its parts

Providers discuss the impact of consolidation on the healthcare industry and healthcare real estate By Erin E. Porter Perhaps Greek philosopher Aristotle had the best explanation of why consolidation is all the rage in healthcare today. Aristotle once declared: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. As his theory goes, individual components […]

Feature Story: Where is pricing? Where is it going?

Feature Story: Where is pricing? Where is it going?

An InterFace West panel discusses the current and future state of MOB cap rates By Murray W. Wolf Of all the information that healthcare real estate (HRE) professionals can gather about medical office building (MOB) sales, the data point that seems to mean the most is the capitalization (cap) rate. After all, the cap rate, […]

Revista reports that one of last year’s largest individual MOB sales was the $52 million acquisition of the 117,649 square foot Red Rocks Medical Center in Boulder, Colo., by Olympus Ventures from West Side Medical Center LLC in October. (Photo courtesy of Boulder Associates)

Feature Story: 2014 healthcare real estate sales volume surpassed $11.3 billion

Medical office made up almost $9.3 billion of the total, Revista says By Murray W. Wolf U.S. medical real estate sales totaled more than $11.3 billion in 2014, according to the healthcare real estate (HRE) data service Revista. Medical office building (MOB) sales accounted for 63 percent of the total dollar volume of transactions, followed […]

Feature Story: Partnering up for sustainability

Feature Story: Partnering up for sustainability

Teaming up is old news in Arizona, where providers have collaborated for years By John B. Mugford For decades upon decades, since the U.S. healthcare system was in its infancy, there was a single road map for growing the delivery care model and serving as many people as possible.

Feature Story: PPACA + 5 = ?

Feature Story: PPACA + 5 = ?

What tactics are providers using now, five years after the PPACA was passed? By Murray W. Wolf  March 23 marked the 5-year anniversary of the signing into law of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). After a half-decade, it is clear that healthcare reform has influenced providers’ real estate strategies in many ways. […]

Deeni Taylor of Duke Realty and Greg Venn of NexCore Group discuss their expectations for 2015. (HREI photo)

Feature Story: Plenty more predictions for 2015

Another dose of observations and prognostications from the HREI™ editorial board By John B. Mugford The recently-published 2015 HREI™ Resource Guide™ included several articles on what might be ahead for the healthcare real estate (HRE) sector, including a story focusing on a discussion with the Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ Editorial Advisory Board last fall. That […]

Feature Story: Six significant subjects

Feature Story: Six significant subjects

A half-dozen of the most talked about topics from HRE conferences By John B. Mugford With the recent proliferation of healthcare real estate (HRE) conferences, professionals in the sector find themselves gathering quite a number of times in cities near and far to listen to panelists, often composed of some of the best-known executives in […]

Economics: An eye on the economy

Economics: An eye on the economy

Real estate is notoriously cyclical, but this time might be different. Really. By Murray W. Wolf The past two years were good ones for commercial real estate (CRE) in general and healthcare real estate (HRE) in particular, even as the broader U.S. economy struggled to recover from the Great Recession. Now, paradoxically, as the economy […]

Feature Story: Southern accent dominates awards

Feature Story: Southern accent dominates awards

Six HREI Insights AwardsTM top projects were in the South; Berman, Rendina also won There was a distinctly Southern flavor to this year’s HREI™ Insights Awards™. Six of the seven award-winning projects, plus the Lifetime Achievement Award, all went to projects and people from the southern United States.

Mindy Berman

Winner: HRE Executive of the Year

Mindy Berman is 2014’s top exec Starting from scratch in 2010, she’s helped build JLL’s healthcare R.E. group E ven though Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) has long been a commercial real estate powerhouse throughout the Americas and the rest of the world, up until recent years ago the sporadic services it provided in healthcare […]

The $6 million, two-story, 15,000 square foot Duke Medicine and Meadowmont medical office building (MOB) provided a strategic location for the client, a successful project for the developer and a profitable investment for the owner.
(Photo courtesy of Davis Moore Capital)

Winner: Best New MOB (Less than 25,000 S.F.)

Duke MOB is in ‘enemy territory’ Developer Davis Moore leads Duke Medicine project near UNC Tarheels campus Facility name: Duke Medicine at Meadowmont Address, City, State: 801 West Barbee Chapel Rd. Chapel Hill, N.C. Client (tenant): Duke Medicine Product type: MOB Number of stories: 2 Square footage: 15,000 Site acreage: 2.06 Parking 60 surface spaces […]

The $38 million, two-story, 106,000 square foot James A. Haley Veterans› Hospital Primary Care Annex in Tampa, Fla., developed, financed and owned by Duke Realty, set a new standard for efficient, patient-centered VA outpatient facilities.
(Rendering courtesy of Duke Realty)

Winner: Best New MOB (100,000 S.F. or more)

Clinic improves patient experience Duke Realty-developed VA facility to be used as a model for other clinics Facility name: James A. Haley Veterans› Hospital Primary Care Annex Address, City, State: 13515 Lake Terrace Lane, Tampa, Fla. Client: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Product type: Medical office building Number of stories: 2 Square footage: 106,000 Site acreage: 19.65 Parking: 797 surface parking spaces Constr. […]

A mostly vacant retail center in Durham, N.C., has been transformed into the 94,300 square foot Croasdaile Commons, anchored by Duke Medicine.
(Photo courtesy of Glenwood Development Co.)

Winner: Best Renovated/Repurposed

Renovated facility keeps rents low Glenwood developed Croasdaile Commons for Duke Medicine Facility name: Croasdaile Commons Address, City, State: 1821 Hillandale Road, Durham, N.C. Client: Duke Medicine Product type: medical office building Number of stories: 1 Square footage: 94,300 Site acreage: 9 Parking: Approximately 470 surface parking spaces Construction start date: January 2013 Construction complete date: November 2013 Cost: About $24 million […]