Julia Koch Gives $75 Million For New West Palm Beach Medical Center

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Julia Koch gave $75 million through her Julia Koch Family Foundation to build a new outpatient medical center in West Palm Beach, that is being named for the donor. The ambulatory center is scheduled to open in 2026.

Koch is the widow of David Koch, a billionaire energy and manufacturing tycoon who helped lead his family’s Koch Industries for decades. With an estimated net worth of $60 billion, Julia Koch is now one of the wealthiest women in the world. She established her foundation last year and has focused so far on primarily supporting the arts, education, and health care.

 

Source:  Philanthropy.com

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Acadia Healthcare Pays More Than $9 Million For Property In St. Johns County

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Tennessee-based Acadia Healthcare acquired three adjacent properties in St. Johns on Feb. 6 for more than $9 million with plans to build a 144-bed hospital at the site.

According to the St. Johns County online development tracker, a two-story, 99,485-square-foot Acadia Behavioral Health Hospital is planned at 132 Moon Bay Parkway.

The undeveloped properties are southeast of County Road 210, east of Interstate 95 and west of the Bridgewater community. It is less than a half-mile from Ascension St. Vincent’s St. Johns County.

There are no details about the cost of the facility or when it expects to open.

Acadia Healthcare provides inpatient, residential, detoxification and several levels of treatment for mental and behavioral disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse and addiction and methadone maintenance, according to its website.

Founded in 2005, Acadia says it is the largest stand-alone behavioral health care company in the U.S. As of September, it has 253 facilities in 39 states and Puerto Rico. It treats more than 75,000 patients daily and has a total of 11,100 beds.

Acadia, headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, has about 23,000 employees.

In Jacksonville, the company operates the North Florida Comprehensive Treatment Center at 6639 Southpoint Parkway.

The facility provides medically supervised outpatient addiction treatment for those 18 years old and older. It treats addiction to heroin, prescription painkillers and other opioids using a combination of methadone and similar drugs and counseling, according to its website.

 

Source:  Jacksonville Daily Record

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UM Gets FAA Approval For 310-Foot Health District Tower

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The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the height of an upcoming tower planned by the University of Miami.

The new tower is approved at a height of 306 feet above ground, or 310 feet above sea level, according to the February 1 approval letter.

The project site is listed as 1099 NW 14th Street.

UM is planning to build Project Ignite on the site, which will allow the Miller School of Medicine to consolidate teaching facilities from 17 facilities into one. The building is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

UM Health Tower

 

 

Source:  The Next Miami

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Developer Plans 9-Story Medical Office Project In Aventura

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The nine-story medical office building that BH Group filed plans for is located directly south of HCA Florida Aventura Hospital.

The 0.71-acre lot at 2740 to 2760 N.E. 208th Terrace is the subject of a development application that the Aventura developer has submitted to the city through associate BH Aventura Land Holdings. In 2021, the developer paid $4.94 million in total to assemble the vacant lots.

The building would be 61,986 square feet in total under the proposal, with 50,004 square feet of leasable medical office space spread across four floors, 5,740 square feet of ground floor restaurant space, and a 213-place parking garage. A garden-themed roof amenity deck would also be included.

Liat Toledano, a principal and co-owner at BH Group, stated, “This project is ideal for prime retail and medical office space because we are right off Biscayne Boulevard and adjacent to Aventura Hospital.”

The project was created by Miami-based Studio Baigorria.

 

Source:  SFBJ

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NYU Pays $33M For Langone Medical Office Dev Site In Downtown West Palm

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New York University dropped $33 million for a medical office development site in downtown West Palm Beach, with plans to move its Langone Health to the new building.

NYU bought the 0.6-acre property at 324 Datura Street from an affiliate of Boca Raton-based Morning Calm Management, according to records and real estate database Vizzda.

The site now houses a four-story, 68,800-square-foot office building that was completed in 1950, property records show. Morning Calm paid $10.6 million for the building in 2021.

Last year, Morning Calm filed a proposal to redevelop the site with a seven-story building with 76,400 square feet of medical offices on four levels and three levels of parking, according to an application submitted to the city. The proposal is asking for four variances, including to reduce side setbacks to 15 feet from 20 feet for the portion of the building that’s over five stories.

 

Source:  The Real Deal

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