PMB to Build Orange County Medical Office

Helen Caloggero Women’s & Family Center. Image courtesy of PMB

PMB is about to break ground on Helen Caloggero Women’s & Family Center, a 137,000-square-foot medical office building on the campus of the 463-bed Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. Boulder Associates is the project’s architect while Snyder Langston serves as general contractor. Delivery is expected in the fourth quarter of 2023.

The medical facility will take shape at 363 S. Main St., near the CHOC Children’s Hospital. Upon completion, the four-story building will house a wide range of services, from mother and baby assessment center to maternal diabetes and perinatal education, among others. Part of the new facility will be dedicated to the hospital’s Center for Pelvic Health.

Amenities will include conference/education rooms, a birthing center, a pharmacy and a Blue Bowl Superfoods outlet. The property will also include an underground parking garage. PMB RES will provide property management services, while PMB and Madison Marquette will handle leasing. PMB President Mark Toothacre said, in a prepared statement, that tenants will also have the opportunity to invest in the building.

The hospital campus is 1 mile southwest of downtown Orange, just north of Garden Grove Freeway and east of Interstate 5. The immediate area also offers other health-care facilities such as Batavia Woods Medical Center and the Pavilion Surgery Center.

PMB has developed more than 100 facilities to date, totaling some 5.5 million square feet of health-care real estate. One of their developments, a 160,000-square-foot medical office building in San Diego’s suburb of Poway, traded for $102.7 million in June.

Adding much-needed supply

Helen Caloggero Women’s & Family Center will be a welcome addition to Orange County’s medical office space inventory. According to CommercialEdge data, the county has some 13.3 million square feet of medical office across 212 properties larger than 25,000 square feet. However, there is little new, up-to-date supply, as only nine of the facilities came online in the past five years.

The same data provider shows the development will be, upon completion, among the largest medical office buildings in Orange. The first three assets in terms of square footage, the 214,000-square-foot St. Joseph Medical Plaza, the 207,454-square-foot CHOC Commerce Tower and the 180,438-square-foot Centrum North, are all located within walking distance of the future facility.