Want to buy a hospital? One of the largest medical centers in Dallas is for sale.

It's the old Parkland Hospital campus on Harry Hines Boulevard northwest of downtown.

The medical campus covering more than 38 acres is up for grabs now that the county hospital has moved to new digs across the street.

Parkland Health & Hospital System has hired commercial real estate firm CBRE to market the sprawling complex at Harry Hines and Medical District Drive.

"The former Parkland Memorial Hospital campus presents a generational opportunity to acquire a substantial stake in the ongoing renaissance of Dallas' premier emerging marketplace and at the heart of the city's most important concentration of the medical services community," said John Alvarado, CBRE senior vice president.

Alvarado said the plan is to either sell all of the former Parkland campus in one piece or in several transactions to different buyers.

The campus dates to the 1950s and was expanded repeatedly. More than 1.2 million square feet of buildings are including in the offering, Alvarado said.

The purchase includes more than a dozen buildings, parking garages and vacant land.

Also in the offering is the original hospital where President John F. Kennedy was treated after being shot in 1963 in downtown Dallas.

Alvarado said he expects most, if not all, of the buildings will be torn down.

"One of the highlights is that all of these properties have the highest-density zoning outside the central business district," he said. "This is more than likely a redevelopment opportunity more so than reusing the existing structures.

"There is a lot of physical obsolescence in a lot of those buildings. We believe the land has a higher and better use than what it is currently occupied with."

Parkland opened its new $1.3 billion hospital complex across from the old campus in mid-2015.

The property for sale is surrounded by the new Parkland, UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Medical Center Dallas.

More than 30,000 people work in the surrounding medical district, which treats more than 3 million patients a year.

"There will be substantial demand for a variety of services that drive off of this medical district," Alvarado said. He said some of the Parkland property could be redeveloped for "non-medical uses, like residential and hotel."

Alvarado said he's already received about two dozen inquiries on the property from buyers representing hotel and apartment builders. Initial bids for the property are due in early March, he said.

Alvarado is marketing the medical campus along with CBRE's David Glasscock, Gary Carr, Eric Mackey, Robert Hill and Kevin O'Neil. Some of the same team just worked on the $353 million sale of the J.C. Penney headquarters in Plano.

"Much like J.C. Penney headquarters and its strategic location, this assemblage, is bull's-eye in the middle of one of the largest and fastest-growing medical districts in the country," Alvarado said.