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In 2021, Morning Calm paid $10.6 million for the 324 Datura property, known as the Atrium.
Last November, Morning Calm submitted a plan to the city of West Palm Beach for a medical office building on the site.
The current low-rise office building would be torn down and replaced with a seven-story medical tower totaling 181,000 square feet, with 76,000 square feet dedicated to medical offices.
Three floors in the building are for parking and four stories are for medical offices.
The NYU Langone plan already was approved by one city committee and is slated for review by another committee on Feb. 14, according to West Palm Beach spokesperson Diane Papadakos.
NYU Langone considered different location before settling on Datura
In 2023, a top NYU Langone official revealed the provider was searching for a larger medical space in downtown West Palm Beach.
Real estate sources said NYU Langone at one point considered building a hospital in the city but backed away from the idea.
The health care provider then weighed a deal to lease about 100,000 square feet of space in the East Tower, an office building slated to be built on Hibiscus Street at The Square, the mixed-use complex built and owned by the Related Cos.
For unknown reasons, NYU Langone ditched the new Related tower, and the 324 Datura St. site became the focus.
The site is less than three blocks from the water, just across the bridges to Palm Beach and around the corner from NYU Langone’s existing office at the 101 N. Clematis St. office building.
NYU Langone Health boasts 10 specialties in the top 10 rankings by U.S. News & World Report, including endocrinology and geriatrics, which both ranked No. 2 in the nation.
Making the expansion equally attractive is NYU Langone’s longtime ties to Palm Beach County benefactors.
The medical center is named after Kenneth Langone, Home Depot’s cofounder and a resident of the exclusive Lost Tree Village community near North Palm Beach.
In addition, former Marvel Entertainment Chairman Isaac Perlmutter, a Palm Beach resident, gave $50 million to NYU Langone’s cancer center in 2014. The cancer center was renamed after Perlmutter and his wife, Laura.