Anchor Health Properties Marks Construction Commencement of a 20,000 SF Ground Up Development in the Atlanta MSA
Furthering the company’s nearly one million square foot presence in the greater Atlanta MSA, Anchor has commenced construction on a single story, 20,626 square foot medical outpatient building in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Strategically positioned adjacent to an existing three story, 40,000 square foot healthcare facility acquired by Anchor in 2023, inclusion of the pad ready land site was integral to the strategic analysis and evaluation of the overall acquisition.
Located at 595 Hurricane Shoals Road within the medical cluster surrounding Northside Gwinnett Hospital, this development will create a multi specialty outpatient campus serving the high growth community. The facility will be designed with the patient’s comfort and convenience in mind with spacious waiting areas, ample parking, and easy accessibility. With a focus on women and children, prominent tenancy includes The Women’s Group of Gwinnett, a local physician practice providing OB /GYN care, and US Fertility, a nationwide network of physician owned fertility clinics. Complementary tenancy at the adjacent building includes Northside Health, Fresenius Medical Care, Georgia Nephrology, Palmetto Infusion, Amedisys Home Health, and Gwinnett Pediatrics, continuing the strong alignment between Anchor, local and regional healthcare providers, and the neighboring hospital.
“Since establishing a local office in Atlanta three years ago, we have experienced significant growth in our regional portfolio and associated infrastructure. We offer our full suite of comprehensive healthcare real estate solutions from this location,” shared Mervyn Alphonso, Executive Vice President & Partner with Anchor. “Seeing this project start to take shape is meaningful as it reflects the collaboration of our integrated development, investment, and management platforms, as well as providing expanded access to care for the community.”
Elliott Sellers, Senior Vice President, Investments & Partner with Anchor echoed these sentiments, “The groundbreaking is a major milestone in our business plan of bringing much needed medical outpatient building inventory to the under supplied Lawrenceville submarket. The team is now focused on planning for a possible third phase on the site given the strong ongoing demand in the market.”
Mindful of how the spatial flow and placement of services within the overall building will affect the patient experience as well as providers’ business plans, the dynamic, purpose built multi specialty facility offers physician groups the opportunity to design and manage their suite to maximize productivity and efficiency as it relates to suite footprint, medical equipment, and support space while leveraging the integration of new technologies to provide the highest quality of care to the local patient population.
Joe Hackney, Senior Development Director with Anchor added, “We are excited and honored to be developing this project with The Women’s Group of Gwinnett, US Fertility, and the project team. Enabling community members to access integrated services in one convenient place, this facility and outpatient campus will provide patients with a first class location to receive the highest quality of care in the area as the connection and proximity to the local hospital will benefit both healthcare providers and patients.”
Slated for completion in early 2025, regionally based firms with extensive healthcare facility experience are serving as key members of the project team, including LDDBlueline, a multi disciplinary architectural firm, Freese Johnson, a full service general contractor, and Kimley Horn, one of the nation’s premier engineering, planning, and design consultants.