GILROY — Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has bought a big chunk of property next to a Kaiser building in Gilroy, a parcel that’s large enough to accommodate a potential expansion for the health care organization at that location.
The health care titan paid $3.35 million for a site that consists primarily of empty land and a surface parking lot adjacent to Kaiser’s medical office building at 7520 Arroyo Circle, documents filed on July 24 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office show.
The just-bought property and the medical offices are both perched alongside a stretch of U.S. Highway 101 between the interchanges with Leavesley Road and State Route 152, according to county real estate records.
The seller was a group whose chief executive officer is John Filice, a well-known South Bay business executive and one of the members of the prominent Filice family.
Kaiser has conducted multiple transactions in the Bay Area in recent years to accommodate expansions of its operations.
Separately, the health care organization has sketched out plans for a massive revamp of its Santa Teresa campus in South San Jose.
The proposal for the San Jose complex includes the construction of a huge new hospital that would replace Kaiser’s existing main hospital building.
At the Gilroy medical offices on Arroyo Circle, Kaiser provides an array of services, according to the health care organization’s website.
Among the services at the Gilroy medical offices: internal medicine, family medicine, an injection clinic, a laboratory, obstetrics, gynecology, radiology, ultrasound, psychiatry, dermatology, podiatry, physical therapy, optician and optometry services and podiatry.
Kaiser Permanente did not immediately respond to a request for comment.