The 1.2 million-sf shopping mall Rosedale Center in Roseville, Minn., yesterday disclosed its plans for a $100 million-plus expansion that will add a hotel, grocery, multifamily housing, fitness centers, restaurants, coworking spaces, more retail, and a medical office building.
Within the $400 billion global market for healthcare construction, two-fifths of all new retail transactions are for medical offices, compared to 2% a decade ago, according to recent AIA estimates. The number of medical centers in retail spaceāwhich Accenture put at 2,800 in 2017, compared to 351 in 2006ācould nearly double by 2022, according to JLL projections.
As more developers, landowners, and retail strip owners look for ways to bring a medical facility to their properties, ānontraditional retail spaces for healthcare services are expected to continue to rise in popularity,ā predicts JLL in its 2019 research report āRetail and the New Healthcare Consumer.ā
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Medical office buildings reflectĀ the 'Amazon effect'Ā Ā
That medical offices are finding their way into empty retail space partly reflects the āAmazon effectā that has made online ordering a prevalent mode of shopping and has left bricks-and-mortar vacancies in its wake.
āHealthcare is seeking out locations that are convenient and accessible to their patients,ā explains Steve Barry, president of Rendina Healthcare Real Estate, a developer based in Jupiter, Fla. āRetail often has great visibility, great access to traffic count, and plenty of parking.ā
Rendina has been exploring this trend for a while now, he says. A few years ago, the firm developed a project for Hilton Head Regional Healthcare in South Carolina that placed a 60,000-sf outpatient facility inside a vacated Publix supermarket with a shopping mall.
Rendina is currently in the process of developing a project that will create an 80,000-sf healthcare facility within a regional shopping mall that Barry says is repositioning itself as a lifestyle center that includes entertainment and grocery venues. Barry couldnāt identify the location or client for this project, but says its construction should start next year.
Retrofitting a retail store for conversion to a medical office depends on the level of care being provided, which may have structural and air ventilation requirements, says Barry.
From a land-pricing and operational cost standpoint, moving healthcare into retail could actually be more expensive than, say, opening a stand-alone facility, because retail stores, says Barry, are generally in higher-density (and higher-rent) locations.
Whatās more important, however, is attracting the right kinds of customers to these buildings. āPatients are exerting far more control over where they go for care,ā he says.
Barry foresees this trend having some runway left. He expects to see new variations and models, too: for example, his firm is working on developing a hybrid urgent-emergency care facility under one roof, so that patients could access the appropriate care and be charged appropriately for it. Medical offices, says Barry,Ā āwould be part of this rehab mix.ā
He believes that, despite technology advancements that allow patients to access care from their homes or phones, āhealthcare in general will always have a need for space.ā
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