Outpatient Projects: Major Minneapolis hospital venturing west with outpatient project
MINNETONKA, Minn. – Officials with the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in downtown Minneapolis have come to realize that patients from the suburbs would rather not venture into the city to receive medical care. In fact, they’ve learned that the dislike is especially acute for people living west of Highway 100, just three miles or […]
Outpatient Projects: HSA PrimeCare breaks ground for surgery center in northern Chicago suburbs
VERNON HILLS, Ill. – HSA PrimeCare broke ground in recent weeks for a 15,000 square foot multi-specialty surgery center at 240 Center Dr. in Vernon Hills, in the northern Chicago suburbs.
Outpatient Projects: Old hotel will make way for $34 million Mercy outpatient facility in Branson, Mo
BRANSON, Mo. – Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy is certainly a well-known health system in Branson. However, most of the city’s residents need to drive about 35 miles to the north to receive Mercy’s services at its hospital in Springfield, Mo. Starting in 2015, however, that will no longer be the case. Mercy has acquired an abandoned […]
Outpatient Projects: Rendina Cos. developing MOB in S.C.
By John B. Mugford The one-stop shopping concept for outpatient healthcare facilities is coming to the Bluffton and Hilton Head Island area of South Carolina. In recent weeks, Jupiter, Fla.-based Rendina Cos., a healthcare real estate and development firm, broke ground in Bluffton on a $16 million, 60,000 square foot outpatient facility that will offer […]
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 […]
Cover Story: ‘This is what change looks like’
Like it or not, healthcare real estate changed dramatically in the past 10 years. Here are our picks for the top 10 stories. By Murray W. Wolf As part of our look back at our first 10 years of publishing Healthcare Real Estate Insights™, we knew we wanted to include an article naming the top […]
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 […]
Inpatient Projects: Shore Health plans 126-bed replacement
S ystems hopes to break ground this summer for hospital costing at least $242M By John B. Mugford The city of Easton, Md., is home to a 100-year-old hospital, the venerable Shore Health System’s Memorial Hospital. Needless to say, healthcare has changed plenty during the last century, prompting the health system, which became part of […]
Outpatient Projects: Huge cancer center planned for NYC
Former city-owned site will be home to 21-story, 750,000 square foot facility By John B. Mugford In the heart of perhaps the world’s most costly real estate market – Manhattan – building a new outpatient healthcare facility can be quite an undertaking, and an expensive one at that. If you’re going to build something, you […]
Transactions: ARC Healthcare closes strong in 2012
Unlisted REIT makes six buys in December, wrapping up a busy fourth quarter By John B. Mugford As 2012 came to a close, all indications – as well as the words of medical office buildings (MOB) sales brokers and investors – were pointing to a strong fourth quarter (Q4) for the nationwide sales volume of […]
HEALTHCARE’S OTHER ‘RETAIL STRATEGY’
Much has been said recently about creating a “retail strategy.” But most of those discussions have been focused on the idea of putting healthcare services in retail locations. What about the much older strategy of putting retail services in healthcare facilities? That idea is still alive and well – and is perhaps more important than […]
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., […]
Inpatient Projects: After 4 years, Texas hospital on track
MEDISTAR CORP. PLANS TOP OPEN 174-BED FACILITY IN LATE 2013 NEAR HOUSTON By John Mugford All systems certainly seemed to be “go” back in 2007 when Medistar Corp. landed an operating partner for a new privately owned hospital it had planned for Webster, Texas, southeast of Houston. Everything remained on track after construction started and […]
Special Report: Cautious but committed
MOBs STILL IN HIGH DEMAND BY INVESTORS, LENDERS By Murray W. Wolf Medical office building (MOB) sales volume for this year seems destined for its highest level since at least 2008, as capital has continued to stampede toward what is one of the best-performing real estate asset classes. Yet, at the same time, equity investors […]