ATLANTA—Locally-based Batson-Cook Development Co. and Ackerman Medical report they plan to develop the Newman Centre for Health in Coweta County.

The project to be built on a 25-acre parcel on Lower Fayetteville Road will be a 250,000-square-foot medical office outpatient campus that will offer physician groups and health care providers state-of-art, class-A office space in the center of the medical corridor between Cancer Treatment Center of America and Piedmont Newnan Hospital, company officials say.

“Newnan Centre for Health represents BCDC's continued commitment to partner with best-in-class developers on signature, innovative programs in specific market segments including multi-family, retail, assisted living and now medical office,” says Mike Hood, COO of BCDC.

Newnan Centre for Health will be a master-planned, outpatient medical office campus featuring leading primary care practices and specialists supported by diagnostics and other outpatient services. Explosive population growth in Coweta County along the I-85 corridor is driving the need for new medical office in the region. For example, Cancer Treatment Centers of America opened its campus in 2012 and is in the middle of a $48-million expansion. Piedmont Healthcare completed its 362,000-square-foot, 136-bed Piedmont Newnan in 2012 and the on-campus medical office component is 100% leased.

Founded in 1963, Batson-Cook Development Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kajima USA. The firm offers a variety of real estate services from development and construction, to equity and credit enhancements, to brokerage and property management. Ackerman Medical, the medical division of Ackerman & Co., has developed more than 1.5 million square feet of medical space to date with physician and health system partners.