Orlando Health To Rezone Downtown Campus For Potential Expansion

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Orlando Health wants to change the use of a swath of land on its downtown campus to help it expand.

The 5.26-acre area Orlando Health wants to rezone on its downtown campus includes office buildings, parking lots and vacant land.(CREDIT: GAI CONSULTANTS

The $3.4 billion nonprofit health care provider filed plans with the city of Orlando to change the zoning of about 5.26 acres spread over 13 parcels of land south of Lake Beauty from medical office and mixed-use to urban activity, which would match the zoning of the three hospitals already on the campus. Currently, the land up for rezoning features five office buildings which total 68,842 square feet, as well as parking lots and vacant land.

“The requests call for a change in land use to accommodate new patient care facilities and campus enhancements and to expand a specially designated transit area to create more flexibility to support important growth,” Orlando Health spokeswoman Kena Lewis said in an emailed response to Orlando Business Journal. “Both requests address properties generally located on the south side of the campus.”

Orlando Health’s proposed rezoning of 5.26 acres south of Lake Beauty would match the land’s zoning for existing hospitals on the campus. (CREDIT: GAI CONSULTANTS)

Orlando Health did not reveal any timetable on any action related to future development of a potential expansion/redevelopment of the land. The zoning change is currently on the municipal planning board agenda for July 16 at 8:30 a.m.

The health care provider previously announced plans for a new one-story, 6,800-square-foot Orlando Health Imaging Center at 1800 S. Orange Ave. as well as a nine-level, 895-space parking garage for staff and patients, which could be as large as 161,000 square feet with an attached five-level, 42,000-square-foot medical office building. Construction of the imaging center is expected to be completed by fall 2019, while the parking garage/medical office is set to open in 2020.

 

Orlando Health also added to its downtown campus with a couple of land purchases in the past several months:

— On Nov. 19, it paid $1.64 million for a roughly 1-acre parcel with an existing 18,000-square-foot office building at 1300 S. Division Ave., north of Kaley Avenue near its Orlando Regional Medical Center.

— On Sept. 28, it bought a 1.5-acre parcel with a 30,000-square-foot warehouse at 1402 Sligh Blvd. for $2.03 million in downtown Orlando, which it previously leased from the seller, rail company CSX Corp. (Nasdaq: CSX).

— On June 18, it bought a vacant half-acre lot at 121 W. Copeland Drive in downtown Orlando for $833,500.

Orlando Health‘s eight Central Florida hospitals have a total of 3,300-plus beds. It has the area’s only Level One Trauma Centers for adults and children, and is a teaching hospital system. Its hospitals are: Orlando Regional Medical Center, Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, South Seminole Hospital, Health Central Hospital, the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, South Lake Hospital and St. Cloud Regional Medical Center. It also owns 11 urgent care centers in the region, as well as several cancer centers, freestanding ERs and more. It is one of the region’s largest employers, with 23,000 workers.

 

Source: Orlando Business Journal

What Is Fort Worth’s Medical Innovation District?

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A medical innovation district is planned for 1,200 acres south of downtown Fort Worth, with the hope of attracting healthcare business and serving as an innovation partner with the soon to open TCU and UNTHSC Medical School, Dallas Innovates reports.

(PHOTO CREDIT: Fort Worth Economic Development Department)

The area, called Near Southside, is already home to housing and restaurants as well as Cook Children’s Healthcare System, Texas Heath Harris Methodist, Baylor Scott & White, and Medical City Fort Worth.

The hope is for innovative healthcare businesses to collaborate with more established entities, which already employ 30,000 people in the healthcare industry in the area.

Modeled after similar districts in Oklahoma City and St. Louis, construction should be complete by this summer, and the city should officially designate the area in the fall, Dallas Innovates reports.

Learn more about Fort Worth’s medical innovation district here.

 

Source: D-CEO Healthcare

Children’s Health Purchases 72-Acres In Prosper With Plans For Medical Campus

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The nation’s eighth largest pediatric healthcare provider has purchases 72 acres in Prosper with plans to build a medical campus in the quickly growing suburb.

(Rendering Credit: Courtesy of: Children’s Health and HKS)

The medical center will be just a stone’s throw from Cook Children’s North Campus, which is also being built in Prosper and will partly open this fall. The facility will continue Children’s Health northward expansion into Denton County after it opened Children’s Health Plano in 2008. There will be pediatric healthcare services at the site, which is at Highway 380 and the Dallas North Tollway, and will include corporate, hospitality, and retail products on the community medical campus.

Children’s Health is in the process of selecting a master developer for the non-healthcare related development, which includes public-private partnerships with Prosper. The land was purchased from Matthews Southwest and was part of the company’s 177-acre mixed-use development.

Prior to the purchase, Children’s Health became a sponsor of Prosper ISD with a 10-year deal to be its official pediatric healthcare partner, which includes naming rights to the school district’s yet-to-be-opened athletic complex.

“Prosper is regionally significant and integral to the long-term strategy of Children’s Health,” said Jeremiah Radandt, executive vice president of the Northern Market for Children’s Health via release. “We have always sought-after the best ways to serve and invest in the community. By building this unique medical campus, we are broadening how we bring health care to North Texans, and better serving the needs of our patients for the future.”

“Children’s Health is one of the region’s most respected and distinguished health care providers, and the town of Prosper is excited it has made a commitment to our community,” said Mayor Ray Smith with the town of Prosper via release. “We look forward to a long-term relationship with Children’s Health. The project will offer high quality health care for our younger residents as well as the benefit of high-end commercial development at one of Prosper’s key intersections for economic growth.”

 

Source: D CEO Healthcare