St. Francis & Duke Realty’s BremnerDuke Break Ground on Two Medical Office Buildings on Indy’s South Side
Released: 6/3/2008
The healthcare landscape on Indianapolis’ south side is evolving as St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers and BremnerDuke Healthcare Real Estate break ground this spring on two medical office buildings.
The two facilities, totaling more than 40,000 square feet, represent a continuation of St. Francis’ primary care strategy to expand its primary care network and physician numbers over the next two to three years. St. Francis serves the needs of a growing population across southern Marion, Johnson, Hancock and Hendricks counties.
Scheduled to open in October 2008, the Franklin Township Medical Office Building (MOB) will encompass 22,000 square feet on the southeast side of Indianapolis at the intersection of Franklin and Southport Roads. The facility will be anchored by a primary care practice, with 16,000 square feet available for additional tenants.
A two-story, 20,000 square foot MOB at the intersection of U.S. 31 and Southport Road is slated to open in December 2008. Anchor tenants include a primary care practice and physical therapy clinic. Another 5,000 square feet of space will be available to accommodate additional tenants.
“This is an excellent opportunity to better serve the needs of our patients and make our myriad services available to more people on the south side of Indianapolis,” said St. Francis Chief Financial Officer Jay Brehm. “The facilities will accommodate the growing number of member physicians in the St. Francis Medical Group.”
As their strategic real estate partner, BremnerDuke, a fully-integrated division of Duke Realty Corporation, is continuing a relationship with St. Francis that spans more than six years. During that time BremnerDuke has served as a trusted development, leasing and management partner on an array of projects for St. Francis, one of the largest healthcare systems in Indiana.
“We are pleased to continue serving as a strategic healthcare real estate partner for one of the premier healthcare providers in Indiana,” said Jim Bremner, President of BremnerDuke Healthcare Real Estate. “Together our efforts are making quality healthcare more accessible and convenient for thousands of Hoosiers.”
Included in St. Francis’ primary care strategy is a branding initiative that BremnerDuke initiated in 2006 with the system’s first new 22,000 square foot primary care building in Plainfield, Indiana. The exterior appearance of that facility serves as an architectural standard for the healthcare system’s future real estate developments.
About BremnerDuke Healthcare and Duke Realty
BremnerDuke Healthcare Real Estate supports hospitals and physician groups with planning, development and compliance-driven facility management services. A division of Duke Realty Corporation, BremnerDuke has been building healthcare for more than 20 years with a wide range of facilities that includes small medical office buildings, large medical office buildings with diagnostics, oncology centers, surgery centers, and complete in-patient hospitals. BremnerDuke, formerly known as Bremner Healthcare, was acquired by Duke in February 2007 as a result of Bremner’s proven success and creativity in developing healthcare real estate. Find out more by visiting www.bremnerduke.com.
Duke Realty Corporation, founded in 1972, specializes in the ownership, construction, development, leasing and management of office, industrial, medical office and retail real estate. It is the largest publicly traded, vertically integrated office/industrial real estate company in the United States. The company owns, manages or has under development more than 142 million rentable square feet in 24 major U.S. cities. Duke, which controls 7,700 acres of land for 113 million square feet of future development, also provides nationwide real estate solutions through its national development division. More information about Duke is available on the Internet: www.dukerealty.com
About St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers
As one of the largest healthcare systems in Indiana, St. Francis operates three main facilities in Beech Grove, south Indianapolis and Mooresville. Additional outpatient facilities are located in the Indianapolis metropolitan and suburban areas. St. Francis is part of a network of 13 growing hospital campuses in Indiana and Illinois owned and operated by the Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, Inc. St. Francis is the only teaching hospital in Indiana to receive the Health Grades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ three years in a row and is ranked among the top five percent of all hospitals in the country for overall clinical performance.
Editor’s Note: Please contact Duke’s communications dept. if you need a rendering of either the St. Francis US 31 & Southport Medical Office Building or the St. Francis Franklin Township Medical Office Building.
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