This article was published earlier this year via the Tampa Bay Business Journal. The FCS facility was built by our client, Optimal Outcomes. The facility is now built (pictures below) and is among a growing number of new or expanded health care facilities in the Bay area with a total construction cost topping $800 million, according to a Tampa Bay Business Journal survey last spring.

Florida Cancer Specialists

TAMPA — After rapid growth through acquisitions, Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute plans to consolidate some of its Tampa offices.

The practice will combine three offices into a single site, a $9.5 million cancer treatment facility that’s being built by real estate developer Optimal Outcomes LLC at 3402 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., next to One Buc Place. Florida Cancer Specialists will be the sole tenant and have an option to purchase the building when it’s completed in the fall of 2012.

Health care construction is a bright spot for developers, said Patrick Marston, principal and founder of Optimal Outcomes.

“It’s been the most recession-proof industry right now, not that it hasn’t been hit, but not at the same impact. It’s a little more resilient,” Marston said.

Read the rest of the article in the Tampa Bay Business Journal here>>