Archive for July, 2009
Healthcare: Ohio firm gets $1B Nassau redevelopment

Healthcare: Ohio firm gets $1B Nassau redevelopment

Posted 07.23.2009 | Categories: Medical Office/Healthcare | No Comments

Health Care REIT has been selected to redevelop 85 acres in East Meadow and Uniondale for the Nassau Health Care Corporation.
The Toledo,OH-based development company will redevelop 50 acres at the A. Holly Patterson nursing home campus in Uniondale into a senior village and transform 35 acres of NHCC’s hospital complex in East Meadow into a [...]

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Transit: Maryland resurrects MARC station development

Posted 07.23.2009 | Categories: Transit Development | No Comments

Four years after a deal that never got on track, state agencies are again moving forward to develop the area around the Laurel train station.
The Maryland Transportation Authority and Maryland Department of Transportation announced in June they are accepting conceptual proposals for a transit-oriented development project at the Laurel Maryland Area Regional Commuter train station, [...]

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Data Centers: Data Center or Army Bunker

Data Centers: Data Center or Army Bunker

Posted 07.23.2009 | Categories: Data Centers | No Comments

We often associate a data center with a high technology complex and rightly so. But if anyone has the opportunity of seeing a typical data center from outside, you might mistake it for an army bunker built only for the purpose of security. Of course there are other reasons for this apart from securing the [...]

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Self Storage: Technology and Self-Storage Third-Party Management

Posted 07.23.2009 | Categories: Self Storage | No Comments

To determine the future of self-storage, we must first look to the past. Gone are the days of manual reporting and hand-written checks, along with waiting for the mail to get bank statements or send reports to property owners.
Many third-party management companies now offer online tools, giving facility owners and managers access to reports, occupancy [...]

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Student Housing: The Preiss Company’s Kirk Preiss Provides Student Housing Secrets at InterFace Conference

Posted 07.23.2009 | Categories: Student Housing | No Comments

RALEIGH – Kirk Preiss, Principal and CFO of The Preiss Company, recently served on a panel discussion at the InterFace Student Housing Conference. The one-day national networking conference was held on June 16 at The Union League in Philadelphia, PA.
Preiss was one of four panel members who presented “The Frontline of Student Housing: [...]

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Transit: Pittsburg approves environmental plan for transit-oriented development near eBART

Transit: Pittsburg approves environmental plan for transit-oriented development near eBART

Posted 07.23.2009 | Categories: Transit Development | No Comments

Though measures will be required to reduce its environmental impact, transit-oriented development around a planned Pittsburg BART station is one step closer to reality.
This week, Pittsburg leaders approved environmental documents for the Railroad Avenue Specific Plan, a tool to make the area around Railroad Avenue and Highway 4 more efficient with high-density housing, shops, parks [...]

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BLACKSWAN interview with Doug Ray

Posted 07.22.2009 | Categories: Video Interviews | No Comments
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Healthcare: The local economy / Signs of hope?

Healthcare: The local economy / Signs of hope?

Posted 07.21.2009 | Categories: Medical Office/Healthcare | No Comments

CEO Albert Gutierrez likes to call Shore Memorial Hospital’s $125 million expansion project, currently under construction despite a national recession, the hospital’s “gift to the community.”
If that’s an exaggeration, it’s only a slight one.
The massive project – which includes a four-story 135,000-square-foot “surgical arts pavilion,” a medical office building, a six-level garage and, eventually, 190 [...]

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Healthcare: $116M Acute Care Hospital Opens

Healthcare: $116M Acute Care Hospital Opens

Posted 07.20.2009 | Categories: Medical Office/Healthcare | No Comments

WEST CHESTER, OH-Construction completed earlier this month on the West Chester Medical Center here. The $116 million project, which contains a five-story acute care hospital and medical office building complex, totals 385,000 square feet. It is owned by Health Alliance of Cincinnati and was designed by RTKL.
The new 162-bed hospital will cater to the growing [...]

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Senior Housing: $14M Facility To Auction for $4M

Senior Housing: $14M Facility To Auction for $4M

Posted 07.20.2009 | Categories: Senior Housing/Assisted Living | No Comments

NEW HAVEN-The Adel R. Coccomo Residential Center is coming to auction at roughly a fifth of its original construction cost. The 72-unit assisted living facility was completed in 2008 at a cost of $14.5 million, but the auctioneer, New York City-based Tranzon Integrated Property Group, is authorized to sell at a reserve price of $3.5 [...]

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