The
Los Angeles Business Journal (
LABJ) awarded Torrance Memorial Medical Center’s Melanie and Richard
Lundquist Tower the first place Gold Award for medical projects as part
of its 2015 Commercial Real Estate Awards. The awards are designed to
recognize the biggest, best and most notable commercial real estate projects
in Los Angeles County completed over the last 18 months.
On Tuesday, February 17, 2015,
LABJ honored the developers, contractors and architects of outstanding projects
in 11 different award categories at a reception at a LA Hotel Downtown.
Representatives from Lundquist Tower developer Boehling Construction Management,
general contractor McCarthy Building Co., architect HMC Architects, and
Torrance Memorial Medical Center attended. During the event, it was noted
that Melanie and Richard Lundquist donated $50 million in 2013 to name
the tower.
“Seven years ago, we challenged HMC Architects to create something
unique and special to serve the health care needs of the South Bay community
of Los Angeles for the next several generations. It’s evident they
listened,” Craig Leach, president and CEO, Torrance Memorial Medical
Center, said. “Our new gleaming tower is not only a beautiful architectural
creation, but also maximizes functionality to masterfully serve our patients
and staff.”
As part of the award, the 390,000 square-foot tower received a write-up
in a special section within the February 23
LABJ edition. The article highlights the tower’s patient-centered, state-of-the-art
healing environment that invokes the ambience of a world-class hotel.
The Lundquist Tower officially opened to patients on November 16, 2014—six
months ahead of schedule and $10 million under budget. The tower replaces
Torrance Memorial’s second facility built in 1971. The new tower
incorporates 256 private patient rooms, 12 operating rooms, 44 prep and
recovery beds, six interventional radiology rooms, an inpatient pharmacy
and sterile processing. The second floor of the new tower houses the South
Bay’s first Hybrid Operating Room, which allows surgeons to perform
high-risk, minimally invasive surgeries and then switch to more conventional
open surgery if needed. In addition to providing an environment to support
state-of-the-art medical technology, the tower’s patient-centered
design addresses the comfort of visiting family members by incorporating
family-friendly lounges and overnight spaces.
To review the entire February 23
Los Angeles Business Journal
Commercial Real Estate Awards 2015 issue supplement, visit the following link:
http://www.cbjonline.com/a2labj/supplements/CREAwards-20150223.pdf