LAMAR, COLO., MONTE VISTA, COLO., AND MYRTLE POINT, ORE. — Lancaster Pollard has arranged $9.5 million in FHA financing for Summit Healthcare REIT. The loans will refinance the acquisition loans on three skilled nursing facilities in the Western United States. The three facilities are Juniper Village at Lamar, a 60-unit skilled facility in Lamar; Juniper Village at Monte Vista, a 58-unit facility in Monte Vista; and Myrtle Point Care Center in Myrtle Point, which features 28 units of skilled nursing and 18 units of assisted living. Jason Dopoulos led the transaction for Lancaster Pollard. The financing, which has a 30-year term, lowered the fixed interest rate on the properties. Summit is a public, non-traded company that recently transitioned from an industrial REIT to a healthcare REIT.
Seniors Housing
MUSKEGO, WIS. — Heritage Senior Living will open its 16th community in Wisconsin in Muskego, about 20 miles southwest of Milwaukee, in summer 2018. Construction has begun on the two-story, 108,000-square-foot community, located on Janesville Road. The property will feature 108 units, consisting of 29 independent living apartments, 36 assisted and enhanced assisted living apartments and 43 memory care suites. Amenities at Heritage Muskego will include a therapy pool, therapy/rehab gym, two private dining rooms, salon, pub, bistro, convenience store, outdoor patio with fire pit and gas grills and walking paths around the community.
DECATUR, GA. — BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group has closed $44.2 million in construction and mini-perm financing for Solomon Holdings. The capital will be used to build The Holbrook of Decatur, a 200-unit seniors housing community in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur. The community will feature 71 independent living units, 96 assisted living units and 33 memory care units. The upscale property is located near Emory University and will feature multiple dining venues, a spa and indoor pool. Choate Construction Co. will build the community, which CDH Partners designed. Once completed, Speak Life Management will be the operator. Construction began in April, and an estimated completion date has not yet been announced.
SOUTHPORT, CONN. — Maplewood Senior Living has purchased 27 acres in Southport where it will build a 92,000-square-foot seniors housing community. Construction will begin this summer on Maplewood at Southport, a three-story, 98-unit assisted living and memory care center. Stein-Troost is the architect for the project, Landtech Engineering is the civil engineer, Milone & McBroom is the landscape architect and KBE Building Corp. of Farmington is the contractor.
Ziegler Closes $65.4M Bond Financing for 261-Unit Seniors Housing Community in Montana
by Nellie Day
KALISPELL, MONT. — Ziegler, a specialty investment bank, has arranged a total of $65.4 million in tax-exempt, fixed-rate bonds for Immanuel Lutheran Corp., which operates a seniors housing community in Kalispell, approximately 75 miles south of the Canadian border. The property is a nonprofit, faith-based community known as Immanuel Lutheran Communities. It features 106 units of independent living and assisted living and 155 units for skilled nursing on a 13-acre campus. Immanuel Lutheran Corp. will use the financing to refund two previous series of bonds and fund an expansion and renovation project at the community. The multi-phase plan will introduce entrance-fee independent living apartments, add a new memory care unit, expand amenities and “right-size” the skilled nursing area. Immanuel is partnering with seniors housing development and advisory firm Sawgrass Partners on the expansion project.
Dominion Mortgage Provides $4.2M Bridge Loan for Seniors Housing Community in Santa Cruz
by Nellie Day
SANTA CRUZ, CALIF. — Dominion Mortgage Corp. has both arranged and provided a $4.2 million bridge loan for Villa Senior Housing. The 58-unit seniors housing community is located south of the Bay Area in Santa Cruz. No further details were disclosed.
SACHSE, TEXAS — Mustang Creek Estates will develop a $7.5 million assisted living and memory care facility in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro of Sachse. The 42,000-square-foot Mustang Creek Estates at Sachse is expected to open this fall and create as many as 50 new staffing jobs. The property will be Mustang Creek’s fifth seniors housing asset in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
FRANKLIN, MASS. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of The Estate at Franklin, an 81-unit seniors housing facility in Franklin. Mark Myers, Joshua Jandris and Matthew Andriano of IPA represented the seller, a family-owned real estate development company, and procured the buyer, a privately held real estate investment and property management firm. Completed in 2014, The Estate at Franklin is located seven miles from the 141-bed Landmark Medical Center.
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of a 5.8-acre parcel in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler for $3.2 million. The buyer will use the land to build The Park at Copper Creek, a $40 million independent living community. RJ Development is building the property. The Park at Copper Creek Independent Living will span approximately 170,000 square feet of space across 135 units. Koelsch Communities is the sponsor of the project, and Koelsch Construction will be the general contractor. Construction will start this June for delivery in September 2018. Chaz Smith, John Finnegan and Ramey Peru of Colliers International in Greater Phoenix represented the seller in the land deal, Henry Bosma of Arizona Acres and Cinder Butte Properties Inc. Tim Dulany, also of Colliers International in Greater Phoenix, represented the buyer, RJ Development.
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges $30.3M in Financing for Construction of 111-Unit Seniors Housing Community Near San Diego
by Nellie Day
CHULA VISTA, CALIF. — Cushman & Wakefield Senior Housing Capital Markets has arranged $8.3 million in institutional equity capital and $22 million in construction debt for a joint venture between Douglas Wilson Cos. and Milestone Retirement Communities LLC. The borrowers will use the financing to build a 111-unit assisted living and memory care community within the Otay Ranch master-planned development in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista. The community will consist of a two-story building on a 4.5-acre site with easy access to downtown San Diego. The project will offer 85 assisted living units and 26 memory care units. Milestone Retirement Communities will manage the property. Construction on the site is slated to begin this month for an anticipated opening in the fall of 2018. Wells Fargo is providing the construction loan. The Cushman & Wakefield team of Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Jim Dooley and Alex Petrosian arranged the financing.