Baptist Health Proposes First Broward Hospital In Sunrise

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Baptist Health South Florida is on the verge of obtaining land for its first hospital in Broward County as it expands its regional presence.

On Dec. 14, the Sunrise City Commission will consider selling the 26.3-acre property at  to Coral Gables-based Baptist Health. The agreed-upon price is $13.75 million for the vacant land on the east side of the Sawgrass Expressway, meaning a hospital there would be visible from the highway.

The city bought the land in 1997 for $1.95 million.

Under the proposed deal, Baptist Health would build a four-story hospital that would initially total 25,000 square feet with 25 inpatient beds, at least one operating room and an emergency department. There would also be a 100,000-square-foot medical office building. The hospital could expand in the future.

“This is a terrific opportunity for Baptist to be at the gateway to our city and to provide health care for our community,” Sunrise Mayor Mike Ryan said. “For a long time, the City Commission has wanted more health care in our community and, particularly, a community-based hospital.”

Initial talks with Baptist Health indicated the project would create 300 to 400 jobs, Ryan added. The current zoning of the land permits a hospital, so Baptist Health will need to seek site plan approval, but not a more complicated rezoning.

“We are excited to have the opportunity to work with the city of Sunrise to build a hospital that meets the needs of the community,” Baptist Health spokeswoman Georgi Morales Pipkin said. “We look forward to working with the mayor, commission, city manager and the community throughout this process and to expanding our service to patients in the area.”

The nonprofit health care provider is already the largest hospital operator in South Florida, but all of its hospitals are in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Monroe counties. It has many outpatient centers in Broward, including an urgent care center in Sunrise, but no hospitals yet.

 

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BridgeInvest Lends $64M for South Florida Assisted-Living Development

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Rieber Developments has landed an $83.8 million debt package to build an assisted-living mixed-use development in metropolitan Miami.

Miami-based BridgeInvest supplied a $63.5 million senior construction loan for Rieber’s 400,000-square-foot project called 1212 Aventura in Aventura. It will feature 163 luxury senior residences, 29,684 square feet of retail and 25,796 square feet of medical offices. An additional $20.3 million mezzanine loan was provided by an undisclosed international lender for the development.

“We are thrilled to finance an innovative project that will not only transform Aventura’s landscape for generations to come but also caters to the local underserved senior-living market,” Alex Horn, BridgeInvest’s founder and managing partner, said in a statement.

A Colliers International structured finance team led by Jeffrey Donnelly and Dmitry Levkov arranged the transaction.

The 1212 Aventura project, at 21290 Biscayne Boulevard, is located adjacent to Rieber’s 100-room Hilton-branded Serena Hotel Aventura. Colliers is also working on closing a $29 million refinance for the hotel which, along with 1212 Aventura, encompass the first two phases of Rieber’s planned master plan development that will incorporate multiple city blocks.

Donnelly said multiple lenders competed for the deal and credited Rieber’s creativity with designs for 1212 Aventura that gives it a “sexy Miami treatment” for an assisted-living development with floor-to-ceiling windows along with a resort-caliber pool and gardens.

“It’s very much a non-assisted living assisted-living project,” Donnelly said. “It has all the amenities in what is normally a very boring, very staid, very uninteresting asset class and I think that also helped with generating excitement with this financing opportunity.”

Construction for 1212 Aventura is slated for completion in early 2023. Pre-leasing and sales of the office and retail space are ongoing with limited inventory available, according to Bernardo Rieber, founder and CEO of Rieber Developments.

“With construction financing in place, we now have the resources to complete the construction of this state-of-art project designed by Arquitectonica and make our vision come true,” Rieber said in a statement.

 

Source:  Commercial Observer

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Gomez Development Scores $45M Loan To Build Aventura Medical Building

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After closing on an Aventura site, developer Marlon Gomez’s firm secured a $45 million loan to build a medical office building on the property.

Miami-based Gomez Development Group plans to use the proceeds from the Parkview Financial loan to build a speculative 142,000-square-foot, seven-story project at 21291 Northeast 28th Avenue, according to a press release. The property is adjacent to Aventura Hospital and Medical Center.

A Gomez affiliate paid $19 million for the 1.63-acre site in October, according to records. The seller was Aventura Medical Center LLC, managed by Miguel Carlos Cadet, which retained an investment stake in the proposed project.

Gomez plans to break ground next year on the new building, which will also have a four-level parking garage with 346 spaces, the press release states. The developer plans to finish construction by the fourth quarter of 2022.

In a statement, Parkview Financial founder and CEO Paul Rahimian said his company provided the loan because it was a compelling financing opportunity on behalf of an “experienced local borrower.”

South Florida’s medical office buildings are in hot demand. In October, Forte Capital Management paid $11 million for a Hollywood medical office building adjacent to Memorial Regional Hospital South. The same month, Irvine, California-based IRA Capital picked up a single-story outpatient center in Boca Raton for $16 million.

In September, a two-story office building traded in a $17.2 million deal involving two affiliates of Montecito Medical Real Estate. And Healthcare Trust of America bought the 1905 Medical Center in Boca Raton for $50 million.

 

Source:  The Real Deal

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Developer Plans Medical Office/Retail In Homestead

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A vacant site just south of Baptist Homestead Hospital could be developed with medical offices and retail.

Homestead’s Development Review Committee will consider plans on Dec. 14 for the 9.2-acre site at the southwest corner of Southwest 312th Street/Campbell Drive and Southwest 147th Avenue. It’s part of the Campbell Crossing mixed-use project.

A 3.36-acre portion of land on the south side of the site would be developed with a 40,000-square-foot medical office building in two stories, along with 207 parking spaces. A 1.06-acre site at the intersection of Campbell Drive and Southwest 147th Avenue would have a 10,990-square-foot retail center with 73 parking spaces.

“The proposed development is in line with existing uses in the area and will serve as a catalyst for the redevelopment and further activation of this prominent corridor of the city,” said Holland & Knight attorney Alejandro Arias, who represents the applicant. “This project will serve to meet a critical need for first-class medical offices and retail/service uses within close proximity of the hospital.”

 

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Baptist Health’s West Kendall Baptist Hospital Reaches New Phase Of Construction For Clinical Expansion Project

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Baptist Health South Florida has reached a new phase of construction for the 125,000-square-foot clinical expansion project at West Kendall Baptist Hospital.

Exactly ten years since the facility’s official debut and one year since the groundbreaking of the project, the “topping out” marks the completion of the building’s exterior structure and ultimately represents the rapid growth of the West Kendall community.

Scheduled to be complete in January 2023, the highly anticipated new four-story tower houses 35 additional emergency department treatment rooms to meet the growing needs of the community. The third and fourth floors of the new building will be completely dedicated to supporting inpatient services, with 70 new inpatient rooms. Amongst other add-ons, there will also be additional space for diagnostic imaging, physical therapy, patient observation and more.

“Since opening our doors in 2011, we at West Kendall Baptist Hospital have been dedicated to improving the lives of the community by offering superior health and wellness services,” said Lourdes Boue, Chief Executive Officer of West Kendall Baptist Hospital. “After an especially trying year, this construction milestone couldn’t come at a better time. It is a true nod to our storied past and bright future.”

When the campus first opened, West Kendall Baptist Hospital was recognized as Miami-Dade County’s first non-replacement hospital in over 35 years, with the goal of helping residents live healthier, safer and more fulfilling lives. To propel the community into this next phase and signify the hospital’s future, West Kendall Baptist Hospital invited the children of the Early Learning Center to leave their mark on the foundation of the building by adding their handprints to its final beam.

Upon completion, the design of the new tower will mirror the Mediterranean style aesthetic of the existing hospital and feature the same eco-friendly features that earned the hospital LEED Gold Certification for Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design – a green building certification program used worldwide.

 

Source:  South Florida Hospital News

 

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