NexCore Breaks Ground on MOB in Germantown, Maryland

SILVER SPRING and GERMANTOWN, Md., and DENVER, Colo. — NexCore Group has broken ground on a 79,491-square-foot medical office building on the new Holy Cross Health hospital campus in Germantown, Maryland, an unincorporated municipality located approximately 20 miles northeast of Bethesda, Maryland.

“The medical office building on the Holy Cross Germantown Hospital campus is one of three outpatient care centers that NexCore is currently developing for CHE Trinity Health in different parts of the country,” says Jarrod Daddis, executive managing director of development at NexCore Group. “The Germantown medical office building is a unique facility because of its direct connection to the first new hospital in Montgomery County in 35 years, its location within a life sciences park and its incorporation of LEED Silver building standards.”

The Holy Cross Germantown Hospital campus is located within the Hercules Pinkney Life Sciences Park on the Montgomery College campus, just east of I-270 between the Germantown Road and Middlebrook Road exits (see project location and watch 3D hospital campus animation). Patients, physicians and staff of the new hospital campus will be able to take advantage of the public transportation hub on the Montgomery College campus, which offers access to Metrobus and Metrorail lines.

Building Program and Sustainable Design
Holy Cross Health selected NexCore Group in a national competition to develop, own, lease and manage the four-story, 79,491-square-foot MOB on the new hospital campus.
The MOB will play an integral role on the Germantown campus as it will be home to a full complement of physician services, both primary care and specialty. The physician groups and ancillary healthcare providers in the MOB will provide much-needed services to the growing population of Montgomery County in a high quality, patient-friendly environment. The MOB will also house diagnostic and retail services.

The MOB will be connected to the new 93-bed hospital and a 696-space parking garage on the ground floor by a climate-controlled connector to create ease of access for patients, providers and staff. The connector will pass through a healing garden that will be located between the MOB and connector.

The MOB, which is being developed to LEED Silver standards, will include features such as high-efficiency air handling units, a lighting control system and a green roof. Green roofs provide several benefits such as filtering pollutants out of the air and rainwater, insulating the building from outside noise and creating natural habitats.

Fact Sheet  
Size: Four levels, 79,491 gross square feet
Construction Start: July 2014
Planned Occupancy: August 2015
Client: Holy Cross Health, Silver Spring and Germantown
Developer: NexCore Group LLC
Owner: The project is being financed and will be owned by NexCore Group.
Architect: Hord Coplan Macht, Inc.
Construction Manager: Whiting-Turner