BremnerDuke Developing Medical Office Building on Seton Medical Center Hays Campus
Released: 5/8/2009
96,800-Square Foot Facility Will Feature Ambulatory Surgery Center and Physician Office Space
(Kyle, Tex. – May 8, 2009) BremnerDuke Healthcare Real Estate, a division of Duke Realty Corporation (Duke), broke ground today on a 96,829-square foot medical office building, which will be connected to the new Seton Medical Center Hays, a member of the Seton Family of Hospitals, under construction in Kyle, Texas.
The medical office building will house an ambulatory surgery center and physician office space. Designed by GSR Andrade Architects, the building will feature an enclosed walkway, which will connect the second floor of the four-story medical office facility with the first floor of the hospital, a canopy-covered patient drop-off area and a two-story atrium.
“We celebrate today the start of an outpatient care center that, along with the new hospital, will bring high-quality healthcare to the residents of Kyle and the surrounding area,” said Jim Bremner, president, BremnerDuke Healthcare. “BremnerDuke is pleased to have been selected to develop the first medical office building on the new Seton Medical Center Hays campus and to be part of this exciting development.”
The medical office building that BremnerDuke is constructing is expected to be complete in spring 2010, while Seton Medical Center Hays is on schedule for completion and occupancy in October 2009.
The leasing team for the new medical office building, which has approximately 67,000 square feet available for lease, is being handled by John Huff, vice president of leasing with BremnerDuke.
BremnerDuke Healthcare Real Estate is one of Ascension Health’s Trusted Development Partners and has worked on several of its other projects, including St. Mary’s Hospital campus in Troy, New York; St. Vincent’s Health in Indianapolis Indiana; and Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
About Seton Medical Center Hays: Seton Medical Center Hays, a member of the Seton Family of Hospitals, is located just east of I-35 off the newly expanded Kyle Parkway. This new and innovative medical campus is scheduled to open in October 2009 and will include the largest medical facility in the county with the capacity for 144 licensed beds and an outpatient surgery center. When all construction phases are complete, the medical center is expected to offer more than 210 patient beds. For more information on Seton Medical Center Hays, visit www.seton.net/hays.
About BremnerDuke Healthcare and Duke Realty Corporation: BremnerDuke Healthcare Real Estate supports hospitals and physician groups with planning, development, construction, leasing and management services. A division of Duke Realty Corporation, BremnerDuke has been building healthcare for more than 20 years with facilities ranging from small medical office buildings to large healthcare facilities with diagnostics, oncology centers and surgery centers or 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 specializes in the ownership, management and development of office, industrial, and healthcare real estate. The company owns, manages or has under development more than 135 million rentable square feet in 20 U.S. cities. Duke Realty Corporation is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol DRE and is listed on the S&P MidCap 400 Index. More information about Duke is available at www.dukerealty.com.
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