By Angela Gonzales
As hundreds of St. Luke’s Medical Center employees look for new jobs as the hospital winds down operations ahead of its Nov. 24 closure, brokers are busy looking for potential new tenants for what will be left of the property.
Dallas-based Steward Health Care System filed a notice with the Arizona Department of Economic Security that it will lay off 655 workers at St. Luke’s. The company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN, notice, which requires employers to provide 60 days notice of covered mass layoffs.
While those health care workers are seeking employment elsewhere, the hospital’s nine-story structure will be available for a new user. Julie Johnson, executive vice president of Colliers International in Phoenix and a long-time medical real estate broker, said the former hospital could be renovated into affordable senior living housing or apartments.
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