TAMPA, FL-It wouldn’t have happened five years ago. But it’s a bona fide commercial real estate trend today: medical groups are renting retail space in strip malls.

Florida Orthopaedic Institute has leased a former Borders bookstore location on N. Dale Mabry Highway. The growing healthcare provider plans to convert it into a clinic that is scheduled to open in January complete with X-ray, MRI, clinical offices and facilities for physical and occupational therapy.

It was an opportunity to take prime space within easy access of 1-275. Florida Orthopaedic Institute is leasing the 27,500-square-foot facility from Langer US Investments. But the big box anchors probably would have shunned the idea before the Great Recession.

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