Highwoods to develop $56 million Laser Spine campus in Westshore
By Ashley Gurbal Kritzer
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Sep 3, 2014

Highwoods Properties Inc. plans to build a custom office development for Laser Spine Institute.

Laser Spine signed a long-term lease with Highwoods for a 176,000 square foot headquarters and ambulatory surgery center on four Highwood-owned acres in Avion Park, in Tampa's Westshore district. Laser Spine will occupy the entirety of the property.

The $56 million project is expected to break ground this fall and be completed in the first quarter of 2016. Once it's complete, Laser Spine will vacate 60,000 square feet in Harborview Plaza, also in Westshore. Laser Spine said Wednesday it expects to create 100 jobs and increase patient capacity by 25 percent.

As the developer, Highwoods will oversee the project and has selected the following team to assist with aspects of interior construction, design and engineering: Precise Construction; Array Architects; Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio, LLC; King Engineering Associates, Inc.; Walter P Moore; and I.C. Thomasson Associates, Inc.

LSI is headquartered in Tampa and operates three additional regional surgery centers across the country, in Scottsdale, Ariz.; Philadelphia; and Oklahoma City.

Ashley Gurbal Kritzer is a reporter for the Tampa Bay Business Journal.