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The Haskell Co. has completed the construction of a $100 million medical campus in Oklahoma, the company stated in a news release.

As medical office further heats up, expect new faces and strategies to compete for properties.

Healthcare Realty Trust has paid $30 million for three Denver medical office buildings totaling about 150,000 square feet. The acquisition of the properties near the former Lowry Air Force Base east of downtown comes three months after the Nashville-based REIT (Ticker: HR) committed $50 million to an MOB joint venture on the other side of town.

Hospitals are not known for generating a lot of cash, but several New York firms have figured out a way to make money in them: help them go bankrupt.

A coalition of community hospitals that compete with Caritas Christi Health Care across eastern Massachusetts is appealing to the state attorney general’s office to impose strict rules on the proposed sale of the nonprofit chain to a New York private equity firm.

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Sutter Health will break ground on its new $284 million hospital next to the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts a week from today. The project will replace the seismically unfit Chanate facility.

United Hospital System has selected Riley Construction to provide full construction management services on a new $7 million medical office building at its Pleasant Prairie campus.

When Kenny Horowitz, a longtime worker in the fashion industry, decided to start his own business, he took a 10-year lease on a 10,000-square-foot showroom in 10 West 33rd Street, the Fashion Accessories Center.

Corporate Office Properties Trust has acquired a massive data center in Northern Virginia for $115 million.