By Katherine Snow Smith, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Plastic surgeon Christian Drehsen bought McNulty Station in downtown St. Petersburg and will put a surgery center and medispa there. The owner of Clinique of Plastic Surgery in Feather Sound and other doctors and dentists are finding the timing right for expansion.
As the medical industry weathers the recession better than restaurants, retailers and banks, health care businesses are now steadily buying and leasing vacant space designed for other types of tenants.
Plastic surgeon Christian Drehsen bought McNulty Station at 240 First Ave. S in St. Petersburg for $1.8 million last month. He plans to invest more than $1 million in renovations for a medispa and surgical center where a bank used to do business. Jeffrey Seymour of Tampa is opening Northeast Orthodontics at 4301 Fourth St. N in half of a former Blockbuster Video. Dawson Academy, which ...