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Flagship Obtains Medical Plaza in Huntersville

HCO News Staff — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 14:33:11 +0000

By Eric Althoff

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C.—Healthcare real estate development firm Flagship Healthcare Properties has added to its portfolio in the Charlotte region with its recent purchase of Huntersville Medical Plaza, a two-story, 26,166-square-foot outpatient medical office building (MOB) located in the suburb of Huntersville.

The MOB, a Class A facility, was first constructed in 2009 in an area known as Lake Norman. Its location at 17220 Northcross Drive allows for easy access to Interstate 77, and it is located near the large Birkdale Village apartment complex.

In addition to the building itself, Flagship will inherit the Huntersville Medical Plaza’s major tenant, Novant Health Huntersville Pediatrics & Internal Medicine, which already occupies the entire first floor of the MOB, utilizing 13,000 square feet of healthcare space therein. Novant Health’s offered services at the MOB include geriatric care as well as neonatal facilities.

In a statement regarding the buy, Flagship’s executive vice president of acquisitions, Gerald Quattlebaum, said that his company will work with Novant, as well as other prospective tenants, on making use of “the advantages of this well-located MOB in this dynamic part of the Charlotte market.”

“We are excited to expand our Charlotte area presence into the rapidly growing Lake Norman submarket and look forward to continuing our partnership with Novant Health,” Quattlebaum said.

In addition to being the new owners, Quattlebaum’s firm will perform asset management and property management.

Flagship bought the Huntersville Medical Plaza through its real estate investment arm, which is called Flagship Healthcare Trust, Inc. The deal was brokered by CBRE’s Institutional Properties Group, and was financed by the Atlantic Union Bank’s Charlotte branch.

Flagship, which is based in Charlotte, has bought several medical properties recently in North Carolina’s largest city. Earlier this summer they also acquired a MOB in the Charlotte suburb of Hickory as well as the nearby Tate Medical Commons IV medical complex.

The firm currently manages over 4 million square feet of healthcare real estate space at 165 properties.

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Cleveland Regional Medical Center to Build New Facility

CLEVELAND, Texas — A new medical facility is planned for Cleveland’s Timbercrest Medical Park as a joint project between New Directions Health Systems — the new management team for the Cleveland Regional Medical Center — and Whitetail Land Development.

The 600-acre project, which will be owned by the developer, will include new medical office buildings, a hospital and a multiuse senior and assisted living facility.

Whitetail Land Development has committed to giving 15 of the 600 acres to the medical center as a gift.

The first phase of construction, which includes the new medical office buildings, will begin in the summer of 2012. Construction of the hospital will start sometime after 2016.

The Medical Center plans to lease office space in several of the new buildings totaling about 40,000 square feet.

“Our goal is to create a modern and convenient medical complex that will serve the needs of the people of Cleveland,” said Mike Duncum, project manager of Whitetail Land Development.

Cleveland Regional Medical Center is a 107-bed medical-surgical acute care facility located in Cleveland, Texas. The hospital employs over 270 people, including 57 active physicians and offers a full spectrum of medical and diagnostic services.

“The facility we have right now is fantastic, but the chance to bring a brand new, technologically sophisticated hospital to serve the people of Cleveland is extremely exciting,” said Patrick Ayers, president of New Directions Health Systems. “We already have top of the line employees and excellent physicians. Now we just need to build facilities that match their talent levels.”

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Texas Hospital Breaks Ground on $778 Million Tower

SAN ANTONIO — A groundbreaking ceremony for a new $778 million trauma tower at Bexar County’s University Hospital was held on Friday, Jan. 21, with five surviving patients from the hospital turning the first dirt.

The new 10-story tower at University Hospital will include a new and expanded emergency center, two floors of operating suites and single-patient hospital rooms, expanding the current space to a two million square-foot area, 713-bed facility.

The new tower is part of the county’s $899 million Capital Improvement Program.

In addition to the hospital’s need to expand and renovate to meet patient needs, the project will also be a “shot in the arm” to the Bexar County economy since as much work as possible will be done by local businesses and subcontractors, according to the hospital.

In addition to the University Hospital project, the county also plans to “transform” the Robert B. Green Campus Downtown, according to a statement.

Broaddus & Associates, an Austin, Texas-based planning firm, will serve as the project manager.

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Joint Venture Set to Build Texas Hospital

HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas — The Seton Family of Hospitals and LHP Hospital Group today announced the establishment of a joint venture to build the Seton Medical Center Harker Heights.

The 180,400-square-foot, $100 million hospital will break ground in Bell County’s Harker Heights the first quarter of 2011 and open by the third quarter of 2012. It will have 83 beds when it opens.

The hospital will offer a full-service emergency department and acute care services, cardiology, oncology, surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, internal medicine, rheumatology, gastroenterology, otolaryngology, nephrology, urology, obstetrics, gynecology, general medicine, family practice and imaging and diagnostic services.

Healthcare real estate development firm Rendina Companies will develop a 60,000-square-foot medical office building jointly owned by physicians that will house their practices there.

Seton and LHP will be equally represented on the joint venture’s governing board and a local Board of Trustees comprised of community leaders and physicians will oversee day-to-day operations at the hospital.

The Seton Medical Center Harker Heights will be situated east of the Rosewood Retirement Center, between East Stan Schlueter Loop and Knights Way.

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Groundbreaking Held for $1.27 Billion Hospital

DALLAS — A groundbreaking ceremony took place for the new Parkland Memorial Hospital, which will be situated across the street from its current location on Harry Hines and Medical District Drive.

The 2.5-million square foot replacement hospital campus, slated for completion in 2014, will feature a 17-story main hospital building with 862 patient rooms for adults and a 96-neonatal intensive-care unit, and has a price tag of $1.27 billion. Each patient floor will accommodate two 36-bed units built end to end with nursing alcoves tucked along the 300-foot hallways. At the center of the new campus will be a "wellness park," a 2-acre island of trees and plants that can be accessed only by entering through the hospital by patients, staff and visitors.

Parkland was built in 1954 as Dallas’s charity hospital and has been reconfigured and remodeled extensively over the past 56 years. The hospital may be best known for being the facility that received a dying President John F. Kennedy following his assassination in 1963.

In 2007, a committee appointed by the Dallas County Commissioner recommended that a new public hospital be built to reduce patient waiting time and also to accommodate the increasing number of uninsured county residents. Local support to build a new public facility became obvious in 2008 after 82 percent of voters approved the bond package committing $757 million in public funds.

Further support has come from local philanthropists who have pledged or donated $91 million toward the project. The fund-raising goal is $150 million, with the remainder of the construction costs being covered by the hospital’s surplus funds.

Parkland’s board of managers had pushed for years to replace the substandard facility and underwent an upgrade in the 1980s.

Jim Williams Jr., a Dallas real-estate developer and former hospital board member, stated in a recent report he recalled taking a tour of the facility in the late 1990s and had to go back to the board and tell them that it was impossible to fix the hospital because it would never comply with federal regulations and OSHA.

While Dallas County acquired roughly 60 acres of land directly across from the current hospital in hopes of replacing the old facility, the project went dormant for about five years as Dallas County commissioners queried whether the time was right to invest more than $1 billion into a new hospital.

Former Commissioner Nancy Judy said recently that she always tried to balance financial concerns about Parkland with the reality of the hospital’s overcrowded conditions, and commended the hospital’s administration for guiding the replacement hospital project through the turmoil.

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$503 Million Texas Project

FORT HOOD, Texas — A joint venture of Balfour Beatty Construction and McCarthy Building Co., both with offices in Dallas, was awarded a $503 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a 944,000-square-foot hospital to replace the 45-year-old Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.

Designed by international architectural firm HKS Architects and Wingler & Sharp, Architects & Planners, Inc. of Wichita Falls, Texas, the hospital will include outpatient clinics, a logistics buildings, ambulance garage, and central utility plant. Construction using Building Information Modeling is expected to begin spring of 2011 on the project, and finish up May 2014.

Approximately $351 million from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will fund the new hospital. The current Darnall Army Medical Center has a shortage of operating rooms, according to news reports, and the Army believes the existing facility does not meet the behavioral health needs of its soldiers.

“Our team aims to create a world-class hospital environment that embodies the highest traditions of the Army, evokes the pride of Fort Hood, promotes evidence-based design, and is an environmentally sensitive place for healing and learning,” says Leon Blondin, division president for Balfour Beatty.

Architects have designed the replacement hospital to achieve LEED Gold. Read more about the project at http://www.balfourbeattymccarthy.com.

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Balfour Beatty, McCarthy Awarded $351 Million Texas Contract

FORT HOOD — A joint venture of Balfour Beatty Construction and McCarthy Building Co., both with offices in Dallas, was awarded a $503 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a 944,000-square-foot hospital to replace the 45-year-old Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.

Architects have designed the replacement hospital to achieve LEED Gold. Read more about the project at http://www.balfourbeattymccarthy.com.

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Balfour Beatty, McCarthy Awarded $351 Million Texas Contract

Architects have designed the replacement hospital to achieve LEED Gold. Read more about the project at http://www.balfourbeattymccarthy.com.

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A Sobering Solution

When El Paso Countys Lighthouse Detoxification Facility was closed due to a funding shortage and staffing problems, hospitals started experiencing a major increase in patients needing detox services in their emergency rooms.

Sheriff Terry Maketa saw this dilemma and the same month proposed replacing it with a new standalone Community Detoxification Facility. Some people may not even need detoxification facilities like this as there are plenty of ways that you can detox yourselves at home. It just depends on what type of detox is needed. For those individuals who may want to have a detox procedure on their feet, it might be in their best wishes to take a look at this ioncleanse foot bath which should do the same things to what a detoxification facility can do. But for some people though, a professional facility will be the preferred choice. It’s up to the individual though. Detoxification can be done at home, but some people might prefer having professionals on-site to help them with the process. Whilst that might work for some people, others might find it more useful to take something like these Reneu capsules available from SupplementRelief.com, for example. Those types of supplements could help people to detox their body, ensuring that their inner body and colon is cleansed. This should help people to live a healthier life.

Some peope will prefer to attend a professional facility though. This new detox facility would take that burden away from the countys hospitals, where a hospital patient may only receive medical attention, Maketa says. At a detox facility they would receive so much more.”

On Feb. 23, 2009, Sheriff Terry Maketa presented a proposal to the board of County Commissioners and the citizens of El Paso County for the Sheriffs Office to build and operate El Paso Countys first Community Detoxification Facility through a collaborative partnership with the law enforcement, medical and nonprofit community. After receiving unanimous approval, construction quickly began on the $1.9 million project.

The construction contract and the new facility were paid for with funds generated from the following groups:

Long-term housing contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) established in August of 2008

The Colorado Division of Behavioral Health, with allocated funds for annual detoxification services

Penrose-St. Francis Health Services

Pikes Peak United Way

Memorial Health System and Penrose-St. Francis Health Services will contribute $570,000 annually and will provide detoxification care, assessment treatment referrals and services

Additionally $800,000 of state alcohol and drug abuse treatment money will pay for yearly operations

Additionally, El Paso Countys Sheriffs Office applied for and was awarded a two-year grant through JAG (Justice Assistance Grant) through the Bureau of Justice Recovery Grant program, which will partially pay for new positions at the facility

The facility is designed to help clients find more comprehensive help if they are ready to change their lives. The projected average stay for clients is between 12 to 72 hours, but a court appointed stay could be longer.

The interior includes an attorneys office for clients who need legal assistance, an assessment center, classrooms, beds and tables for dining. Clients either go to the detoxification facility on their own will, are dropped off by authorities, or are sent in by the courts.

Sprung Instant Structures

El Paso County selected Sprung as the product of choice due in part to the engineered clear span design of the structure, energy efficient insulation system and an accelerated construction time line that brought the facility online in five months.

Construction began on a 70-foot x 160-foot structure in June 2009. The 11,313-square-foot structure is a Phase I project, and a second 70-foot x 160-foot structure will be erected adjacent to the first building to expanded El Paso Countys Correctional systems.

The first facility includes a 9,652-square-foot ground floo with an assessment office, visiting rooms, a restroom and shower facilities, and housing areas for 40 male and female detox clients. Additional space for future expansion is available if necessary.

The 1,661-square-foot mezzanine level contains two multi-purpose rooms, a recreational area, an employee break room and the detox supervisors office. The facility can accommodate up to 140 people, but Sheriff Maketa says the plan is to keep the number of clients at 40, with at least two staff members per every 10 clients.

As a cost-saving measure, inmate labor was used to erect the structure under the supervision of El Paso Countys own Lieutenant Paul Billiard, the technical consultant provided by Sprung, and the contractor, G.H. Phipps. More than 2,967 hours were contributed by the inmate crews and 844 hours of supervisor oversight, saving an estimated $118,798 in direct labor costs.

We consider this the surprise of 2009, Maketa says. Going into this year we anticipated there would be no detox services for the county. We were able to fund the construction of the facility and are pleased to have the ability to double the capacity of bed space which directly impacts a valuable service to our community.

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