The Nashville-based REIT and Opus West Corp. of Phoenix willbuild a two-building complex on a 14.58-acre tract in Pima Center's 40-acreoffice park, a 500,000-sf project of Main Spring Capital Group,also from Phoenix. The medical project will break ground inmid-September, with completion planned for mid-2008.

Hilla Nassiri, leasing director for the Nashville-based REIT,says leasing efforts for Pima Medical Pavilion are directed towardsurgical centers, diagnostic imaging, radiology and laboratories.The project will include some retail, including a pharmacy anddelicatessen. She tells GlobeSt.com that there are no letters ofintent in hand or contracts are pending, but "there's been a lot ofverbal interest."

Nassiri says the buildings will have the shell of standardmedical office structures, but the exterior will take the localculture into account. Butler Design Group, Architects &Planners in Phoenix is the project architect. "The Butler Group isvery much in the know as to how the Indian community expects theexterior to look," she adds. "There's a lot of symbolism involvedin the design itself."