Q & A: MOBs drive HTA strategy
MARK ENGSTROM STILL SEES AMPLE OPPORTUNITIES By John Mugford Anyone who follows the medical real estate sector has watched Healthcare Trust of America Inc. (HTA) build its large portfolio of medical office buildings (MOBs) by relying on its many health system relationships, an aggressive acquisitions strategy, a willingness to move into almost any geographic region […]
Special Report: Recent deals suggest sellers’ market
BOMA PANELISTS EXPLORE IMBALANCE OF REAL ESTATE SUPPLY AND DEMAND By Murray W. Wolf Anyone who has been involved in commercial real estate for more than five minutes knows there is probably no such thing as a “typical” deal. There are too many variables – geographic market, specific location within that market, age of the […]
Inpatient Projects: New replacement opens doors in N.Y.
$350M ORANGE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER REPLACES TWO AGING CAMPUSES By John Mugford New freestanding replacement hospitals don’t come along very often in the state of New York. In fact, it’s been more than two decades since the last new one was completed anywhere in the Empire State. Until now, that is. The 383-bed, $350 million […]
Inpatient Projects: Alabama hospital buyer plans rebuild
TENNESSEE-BASED REGIONALCARE PLANS $227 MILLION REPLACEMENT FACILITY By John Mugford When Brentwood, Tenn.-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners acquired the assets of Coffee Health Group in Florence, Ala., in mid-2010, it pledged to seek state approval to build a replacement hospital for Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital, which serves much of northwest Alabama. In recent weeks, the for-profit […]
Industry Pulse: July 2011
NEW YORK – Demand for healthcare facilities is approaching a point where it will outstrip supply, according to Jay Flaherty, chairman, president and CEO of Long Beach, Calif.-based HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP), a large healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT). In a REIT.com video interview at “REITWeek 2011: NAREIT’s Investor Forum” at the Waldorf Astoria […]
Provider News: A joint venture considered in Colorado
PACT MAKES SENSE, SYSTEMS SAY, IN ERA OF REFORM, PHYSICIAN SHORTAGES By John Mugford At a time when many hospital consolidations are taking place throughout the country, two well-known players in Colorado are considering what the entities are calling a “joint operating agreement.” Officials with the University of Colorado Hospital at the Anschutz Medical Campus […]
Inpatient Projects: Baylor hospital to get $100.5M tower
165,741 SQUARE FOOT EXPANSION PLANNED AT HOSPITAL IN GRAPEVINE, TEXAS By John Mugford Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System is shoring up plans for a $100.5 million expansion at its hospital in Grapevine, located in the northern suburbs of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.Baylor’s plans call for the construction of a new a five-story, 165,741 square foot […]
Outpatient Projects: Site work starts on 176,462 s.f. MOB
COGDELL SPENCER ERDMAN IS BUILDING $27.8 MILLION PROJECT IN DULUTH, MINN. By John Mugford As hospitals across the country continue to add more and more employed physicians, many are seeing a need for new spaces where these doctors can provide services. One place this is happening is in downtown Duluth, Minn., where design/build firm Cogdell […]
Q & A: New job for MOB pioneer
SYDNEY SCARBOROUGH TAKES ON NEW ROLE AT JLL By John Mugford When Sydney P. Scarborough was asked a question during the ensuing interview about what she enjoys doing outside of work, there was a caveat that went something like this: “It’s obvious that at work your passion entails helping hospitals reduce costs, but outside of […]
Industry Pulse: June 2011
FRISCO, Texas – The general consensus among professionals involved in healthcare real estate, as well as the healthcare industry in general, is that the development of new physician-owned hospitals is dead, killed by Section 6001 of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act. The provision, for the most part, prohibited the opening of new physician-owned […]
Provider Perspective: Providers need flexibility, partnerships
REAL ESTATE FIRMS CAN PROVIDE CREATIVITY AND CAPITAL, HEALTH EXECS SAY By Murray W. Wolf For a snapshot of what is happening in the healthcare industry and healthcare real estate these days, focus your lens on North Memorial Health Care in Robbinsdale, Minn. The independent, not-for-profit system in the north Minneapolis suburbs perhaps exemplifies much […]
Inpatient Projects: Battle to build S.C. hospital continues
CAROLINAS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM BUYS LAND FOR PROPOSED 64-BED HOSPITAL By Dan Emerson A battle between three health systems to build a new hospital in Fort Mill, S.C., a growing suburb south of Charlotte, N.C., has been part of the healthcare landscape for at least seven years or so. At one point, in 2006, the matter […]
Outpatient Projects: Acquisition puts JV in the driver’s seat
SEAVEST, KIRCO ADAPTING FORMER AUTO PARTS COMPANY HQ FOR HEALTHCARE By Dan Emerson After trying for several years to add medical services at its busiest outpatient location, Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) has chosen a different strategy: expanding its offerings in a nearby office building that is being converted to a medical use. The […]
Transactions: The Sanders Trust adds to its portfolio
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-BASED FIRM BUYS INPATIENT REHAB HOSPITAL IN LAS VEGAS By John Mugford The Sanders Trust (TST), a medical real estate investment firm based in Birmingham, Ala., has a goal of adding $100 million to its portfolio in 2011 through acquisitions and development. The company made significant progress toward that goal in May by paying […]
Industry Pulse: May 2011
NAPA, Calif. – A financially troubled MOB complex in California’s wine country is getting a new lease on life thanks to its recent acquisition by White Plains, N.Y.-based Seavest Inc. Seavest’s third healthcare real estate fund, Seavest Properties III, acquired the two-building, 65,000 square foot property at 1100 Trancas St. in Napa for $11.2 million, […]
