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.

Teams that have built medical office space walk into a PACE project expecting exam rooms and hallways, and find they're designing a community center with a clinic inside it. The program, the site constraints, and the long licensing runway that make PACE real estate its own animal.