Plans for a new 80,000-square-foot Hackensack Meridian Health facility in Clifton call for an ambulatory surgical center, multispecialty practice areas and an attached parking structure with 400 spaces for occupants and visitors. — Rendering by Gensler/Courtesy: Prism Capital Partners
By Joshua Burd
Prism Capital Partners has broken ground in Clifton on a new 80,000-square-foot ambulatory care center for Hackensack Meridian Health, the latest addition to its flagship ON3 campus.
The firm said the facility, designed by Gensler, is set to rise at the southeast corner of Metro Boulevard and Route 3, with delivery slated for the third quarter of 2024. Plans call for an ambulatory surgical center, multispecialty practice areas and an attached parking structure with 400 spaces for occupants and visitors, along with design features such as a distinctive glass curtain wall façade.
When complete, it will join some 1.45 million square feet of fully occupied office, education and research and development space at ON3, a former Hoffmann-LaRoche pharmaceutical campus in Nutley and Clifton that Prism has repurposed as a mixed-use destination for corporations and health care.
Rock Brook is the project’s MEP engineer.
“This state-of-the-art facility is aligned with Hackensack Meridian Health’s mission to deliver the highest-quality health care services to the local community,” said Prism’s Eugene Diaz, a principal partner. “It is exciting to see this much-anticipated campus addition officially underway.”
Hackensack Meridian Health already occupies academic and research and development space at ON3, which is home to the organization’s School of Medicine and Center for Discovery and Innovation. Occupants also include pharmaceutical maker Eisai Inc., Quest Diagnostics, The Ralph Lauren Corp., Seton Hall University’s Graduate College of Nursing and School of Health and Medical Sciences, Modern Meadow and Y-mAbs Therapeutics.
“Hackensack Meridian Health has been committed to ON3 from the start,” Diaz added. “We take great pride in our expanding relationship and our ability to accommodate this health care leader’s diverse needs in a single location.”
Prism Construction Management is developing the four-story building, while Gensler is also Hackensack Meridian Health’s interior designer for the project.
“The Hackensack Meridian Health Ambulatory Care Center serves as the gateway to ON3 and draws inspiration from the campus’ former life as a health care and sciences ecosystem,” said Gensler’s Reid Brockmeier, a co-managing director in the firm’s New Jersey office. “The focal point of the design is the end-to-end hospitality-driven patient experience, from its welcoming double height arrival and daylight-enriched spaces to the moment patients receive medical care.”
Prism, which completed its acquisition of the 116-acre campus in 2016, said it’s planning more than 2 million square feet of additional space at ON3. The firm has since completed more than $100 million in infrastructure improvements to support the current population and future development at the site, which also figures to include retail and hospitality components.
