What's Different About Building Behavioral Health
Behavioral health changes three things about a clinic build: the privacy and safety the design carries, the licensing that shifts with level of care, and an entitlement path that often runs through a public hearing.
Run the Test Fit Before You Sign the Lease
Somewhere in your pro forma is the number everything depends on: exam rooms. A test fit asks the building before the lease locks the answer in.
What I Look For When I Walk a Building
A broker tour asks whether you could see your clinic here. A diligence walk asks whether the building can physically become your clinic, on budget and on time. Who to bring, what to check, and when to walk away.
Parking Math
A site checks every box, then you walk the lot at 10 a.m. and there's nowhere to put your patients. Why healthcare parking demand outruns the retail a building was striped for, and how to size it from your care model before you sign.
Ground-Up Pad or Medtail Lease: The Decision You Make Before Site Selection
An inline medtail suite and a ground-up pad on the same corridor. Both look right on a map. Here's how to run your care model, your capital, and your multi-site plan through the structure before you sign the LOI.
Market & Site Selection: An ELI5 Guide for Healthcare Founders
A simple, operator-focused glossary of the terms that actually matter in healthcare site selection—so you don’t lock in the wrong constraints for the next 10 years.
Medtail Reality Check: A Smarter Way to Evaluate Build-Out Costs
Most founders evaluate Medtail deals based on cost. The real question is what level of patient volume that cost requires—and whether your model can actually deliver it.
Healthcare Real Estate Has No Unicorns — Only Tradeoffs
Founders often assume healthcare will flex easily into office, retail, or industrial. Evaluating tradeoffs early in the site selection process will help you understand how difficult it will be in reality.
From Potential to Place: Choosing the Right Physical Site for Your Clinic
Your ideal clinic site goes beyond a dot on a map. Discover how to define your space program and strategically choose between second-generation versus new build-outs for successful physical expansion.