FT. MYERS, FL-Gates-Haskell, a joint venture between the Haskell Co. and Gates Construction, won the construction management contract for the $27-million LeeSar Regional Service Center. Gates-Haskell is planning, scheduling and managing construction of the new 205,000-square-foot facility.
LeeSar is a regional healthcare supply-chain management company serving healthcare organizations across the Southeast. The company was formed by the Lee Memorial Healthcare System and the Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System in 1998. The new facility will help LeeSar expand its services, which include medical supply acquisition and distribution, pharmaceutical repacking, contract negotiations, instrument repair, courier service, centralized sterile processing for surgical instruments and food management and preparation for local hospitals.
“The LeeSar facility combines so many ‘back of the house’ hospital services--such as food preparation, surgical equipment sterilization, warehousing and distribution--under one roof,” Don Kartzmark, a project executive with Haskell’s Commercial Group, tells GlobeSt.com. He says the facility will improve LeeSar’s cost structure help it improve the quality of care to Florida’s healthcare organizations and their patients.
Specifically, the LeeSar Regional Service Center will feature a 40,780-square-foot sterile processing center and a 38,750-square-foot cook ‘n chill area for food preparation that will service the Lee Memorial Health System. Construction on the LeeSar Regional Service Center is currently underway and the facility is expected to be complete in July 2012.
“Relatively speaking, healthcare is not performing much better than most other sectors,” Kartzmark says. “Bidding on new construction deals is more competitive than I have ever seen it in the past.”
Still, some projects are getting done. A courthouse in Downtown Fort Meyers just launched a $5.6 million renovation project. The renovation is one stage of a $100 million project that includes a 10-story tower, according to the Marco Island Sun Times. A marina complex is also under construction in Fort Meyers. And the near $1 million Fort Meyers Pier renovation will be completed by 2012.
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