Equity Industrial Partners completes 70,000 s/f $12m facility for Compass Medical
Dacon and Equity Industrial Partners recently completed the 70,000 s/f Southeast Medical Center located at 1 Compass Way, Rte. 18 for Compass Medical, P.C.
The $12 million facility is a conventional steel shell building with a rubber membrane roof, brick, block, glass and exterior insulation finish system and sits on an eight-acre parcel of land located on Rte. 18 and is incorporated onto the former Foxboro Company's manufacturing site. The project will include a new main boulevard into the park off Rte. 18 and will open up other sites Equity Industrial Partners plans on developing.
Compass Medical, P.C. is joined by Brigham & Women's Hospital; Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; Eye Health Services; Duval's Pharmacy; Scott Dreiker, M.D., P.C. OB/GYN; Greater Boston Orthopaedic Associates; South Shore Orthopedics; Gastrointestinal Specialists; South Suburban Gastroenterology; East Bridgewater Physical Therapy; New England Spine Insititute; Surgi-Care Orthotics and Prosthetics; Cape Cod Pain Management; and Alan Murphy, M.D., P.C. Neurosurgery, all of which have brought medical programs and services to the new building. The building was occupied on July 30th. The new facility has replaced the Compass Medical, P.C. Whitman location with this new state of the art medical services facility. All primary care and ancillary services previously available in Whitman are now operational in East Bridgewater.
Dacon Corporation, the Natick-based design/builder completed the site, building shell, and core.
Other medical projects under construction or recently completed by Dacon include a 99,000 s/f ambulatory center in Danvers for Northeast Health Systems and College Street Partners; Wing Memorial's 66,000 s/f surgical center addition in Palmer, a member of the UMass Memorial Health Care system; and Hallmark Health's 33,000 s/f medical services building in Reading.
By Design, also based in Natick, completed the interior individual medical suites.
Equity Industrial Partners is a Needham-based local and national developer of commercial and industrial properties. Equity plans on developing an additional 60 acres in the park over the next few years.
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