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Sharp Rees-Stealy building new medical office center

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A new Sharp Rees-Stealy medical center is being constructed on a Rancho Bernardo site that most recently had a Hooters restaurant, Roadway Inn and office building.

The 100,000-square-foot, three-story building and adjacent four-level parking structure will be on the 3.5-acre parcel at 16899 W. Bernardo Drive. It is scheduled to open in late 2017. Between the parking structure and surface lot, there will be parking spaces for around 500 vehicles. The parking structure will be adjacent to West Bernardo Drive. The medical building will be on the parcel’s east side, overlooking Interstate 15.

Sharp Rees-Stealy officials said the new state-of-the-art facility will be about a half-mile from its 57,400- square-foot Rancho Bernardo medical center at 16950 Via Tazon. It opened in 2000.

“We are pleased to be able to provide the people who live and work in the North Inland communities a modern, large, state-of-the-art facility, additional physicians, abundant parking and easy access all within a few short minutes of our current site,” said Sharp Rees-Stealy CEO Stacey Hrountas.

“Being able to design the building to our own specifications will allow us to consider not only what is best for our patients, but what will create an outstanding work environment for our physicians and providers,” Hrountas said.

Due to the new facility being almost twice as large as the current one, officials said they will be able to add 20 physicians to the current staff and expand services.

Sharp Rees-Stealy spokesman Curtis Ippolito said officials are still deciding what services to expand or add.

According to the facility’s website, the current offerings include family medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, dermatology, internal medicine, neurology, occupational medicine, ophthalmology, optometry and an optical shop, a pharmacy, physical therapy, allergy injections, orthopedic surgery, podiatry, speech therapy, rheumatology, radiology and mammography, urgent care, upper extremity rehabilitation, weight management, diabetes education and a travel clinic.

Sumeet Parekh, managing partner at HP Investors LLC, which owns the property, said developing the site into the medical center is about a $40 million endeavor, not including the land. His family’s company owned the adjacent parcels where the motel and restaurant were located, which combined formed an “L” shape. To make it a more rectangular property, last summer HP Investors purchased the adjacent parcel from Boardwalk Development, which had its office there, but has since relocated to Scripps Ranch.

The endeavor is a partnership between HP Investors and Lankford & Associates, Inc.

Parekh said while they had submitted plans to the city for the Aloft hotel, it was simultaneously exploring a deal with Sharp because “a hotel is a risk when the economy goes up and down,” he said. “We have a long-term, great tenant in Sharp. It is just a safer option.”

Ippolito said Sharp Rees-Stealy has signed a 20-year lease for the new medical facility.

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