The New Baptist Hospital Is Ready To Start A New Healthcare Chapter In Pensacola

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After years of construction and planning, Baptist Health Care will open its new campus in Pensacola this weekend.

The new hospital and healthcare center has been in the works for years. The formal announcement of the project to the public came on June 26, 2019, from Baptist Health Care President and CEO Mark Faulkner who announced the news in a press conference touting a “brand new, state of the art hospital and health care campus for generations to come.”

The target date given for the opening of the new hospital was the summer of 2023. Last weekend, they madethat deadline with minutes to spare.

Once the new emergency department is established, inpatients from the E Street location will start to be moved to the new hospital.

Baptist will have 16 ambulances split into two convoys dedicated to the move, and the Escambia County Sherriff’s Department will escort them along the planned move routes. The plans are for the move to be complete by early Saturday evening.

Patients will be seeing a modern, state-of-the-art, 600,000-square-foot facility. That compares to 400,000 square feet at the E Street campus.

“Everything about this is bigger,” said John Porter, vice president of construction services at Baptist Health Care. “Some of that is driven by code. Every time construction codes update they add more square footage. They require corridors to be wider, O.R.s to be larger, the list goes on. But a lot of the space increase was deliberate design on our part to be sure that we have the circulation space so that our clinical staff and family and patient can have the space they need to provide the care that they need.”

 

Source:  WUWF

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Onicx Group Secures $29M Refi For Two Central Florida MOBs

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Onicx Group has secured a $29 million refinancing loan for two medical office buildings totaling 132,000 square feet in Trinityir and Kissimmee. First Citizens Bank‘s Healthcare Finance business, part of the CIT division, provided the loan.

Both medical offices were subject to previous financing in 2020. Trinity Medical Arts Building received a five-year, $21.8 million cash-out refinancing from ServisFirst Bank, while Poinciana Medical Arts Building (shown above) was subject to a $7.9 million loan, due in 2025, originated by Ameris Bank, CommercialEdge data shows.

The properties are part of Florida Trinity Hospital and Poinciana Hospital campuses. The 90,000-square-foot Trinity Medical Arts Building came online in 2011. Delivered in 2013, the Poinciana Medical Arts Building encompasses 42,000 square feet on 10.2 acres.

 

Source:  Connect CRE

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Developers’ Plans Could Include Apartment Complex With Hospital On Site In Palm Beach County

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FLF Holdings and Crossroads Development Partners asked Jupiter officials to rezone part of their property for apartments, while Baptist Health South Florida could build a hospital on the remaining land.

The Town Council was scheduled to discuss the proposal from Crossroads 6106 LLC, a joint venture between local developer FLF Holdings and Crossroads Development Partners in Schaumburg, Illinois, on Sept. 19. While a vote for approval is not on the table at the meeting, the Town Council was expected to consider whether staff should continue working with the developers on the proposal for the 58.5-acre site at the northeast corner of Interstate 95 and Indiantown Road.

In 2018, the developer utilized a Bert Harris Property rights claim against the city – a method used when development applications were previously denied – to obtain approval for a hotel, restaurant, medical/research office, and daycare. No development took place at the time.

Now, Crossroads 6106 filed an application that seeks to amend the development agreement with the town to allow 520 apartments, with 20% of that workforce housing. The project would be called Santé Circle after the French word for health.

Josh Simon, managing partner of FLF Holdings, said his application doesn’t utilize the Live Local Act, so he needs a Town Council vote in favor of the project.

 

Source:  SFBJ

 

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Medical Office Complex To Replace 1954-Built Office Building In Coral Gables

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An older office building in Coral Gables could be replaced with a $35 million medical office complex.

The city’s Development Review Committee will consider the small-scale land-use amendment for the 2.05-acre site at 760 Ponce de Leon Blvd., plus 112 and 120 Avila Court, on Sept. 22. The property owner, Miami-based B & B Investments, has agreed to sell the site to 760 Ponce De Leon Blvd LLC, led by Pedro Camejo and Joel Campo of Cam Group in Miami.

The property currently has a 17,245-square-foot office building that was constructed in 1954 and has several medical tenants. That building would be demolished.

The new building would feature 89,370 square feet of medical offices, 17,260 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and 502 parking spaces in five stories. The parking would be on the lower two levels and include 26 spaces with electric vehicle chargers. The medical office space would be on the top three floors, and there would be open-air terraces on floors four and five.

 

Source:  SFBJ

 

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University Of Miami Seeks Land Deal For New Medical Education Building

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The University of Miami is seeking to acquire land from Miami-Dade County in order to build a medical education building for the Miller School of Medicine.

The nonprofit university wants to purchase 36,410 square feet at 1115 N.W. 14th St. from the county. The land is currently utilized by the Public Health Trust as part of the Jackson Memorial Hospital campus. UM would pay the county $6.21 million, a value based on several third-party appraisals.

UM already has a land lease on the site.

The county’s Community Health Committee was scheduled to vote on the deal on Sept. 11. The County Commission would vote on it on Oct. 3, with a two-thirds approval required.

 

Source:  SFBJ

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