NEW HOPE, MINN. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has negotiated the sale of Saint Therese of New Hope, a continuing care retirement community in New Hope, a northwest suburb of Minneapolis. The seller was Saint Therese, a Minnesota-based nonprofit that originally built the community. The campus first opened in 1967. Starting in 1979, the property underwent extensive senior living expansion and renovation projects over the years. The community features 221 independent and assisted living units and 168 licensed skilled nursing beds. Compass Healthcare acquired the asset for an undisclosed price and will rebrand it as Woodlake Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center and Woodlake Residences. Saint Therese will continue to provide spiritual and pastoral care for the residents.
DALLAS — Dallas-based Sonida Senior Living has announced that it is under contract to acquire a portfolio of seniors housing communities situated within the Southeast for $103 million. The seller was not disclosed. Totaling 555 assisted living and memory care units across eight properties, the communities are located in Jacksonville, Orlando and Daytona Beach in Florida, as well as the South Carolina markets of Hilton Head Island, Charleston and Florence. Occupancy across the properties averages roughly 83 percent. Average monthly revenue per occupied room (RevPOR) at the communities is $6,000. The acquisition, which is expected to close later this year, will bring Sonida’s total operating portfolio to 91 communities. “With this planned acquisition, Sonida will further broaden its high-quality and regionally focused real estate portfolio with newer vintage communities in mid-to-large metropolitan areas with favorable growth prospects,” says Brandon Ribar, president and CEO.
DESOTO, KAN. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has arranged the sale of Hillside Village, a seniors housing community in DeSoto, about 20 miles southwest of Kansas City. Hillside Village features 38 assisted living units and 27 skilled nursing units, totaling 95 licensed beds. The seller was a local owner exiting the business, and the buyer was a public company based in California. The sales price was undisclosed. Ryan Saul, Nick Cacciabando and Jeff Binder led the transaction for SLIB.
PHOENIX — A joint venture between Sabal Investment Holdings, 12 North Capital LLC and affiliates of MorningStar Senior Living has purchased MorningStar at Arcadia, a seniors housing property in Phoenix. Located at 3200 E. Glenrosa Ave., MorningStar at Arcadia features 78 assisted living suites across studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom floorplans and 30 memory care suites. Community amenities include a fitness center, resident game room, outdoor seating area with fire pit, and resident dining room. The buyers plan to implement an improvement program including a cosmetic refresh to common areas, including the main entrance lobby, dining room, theater and other amenity spaces along the reconfiguration of smaller assisted living units to meet local demand for larger and more functional living spaces. Additionally, the buyers plan exterior painting and landscaping improvements. Aron Will and Michael Cregan of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged financing for the acquisition. The seller, price and other transaction details were not released.
KENSINGTON, MD. — Berkadia has arranged a $47.4 million loan for the refinancing of Modena Reserve at Kensington, a 135-unit seniors housing community located in Kensington, a northern suburb of Washington, D.C. A debt fund provided the capital to the borrowers: Solera Senior Living, McCaffrey and an unnamed institutional investor. Steve Muth and Austin Sacco of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare arranged the three-year, nonrecourse loan, which features interest-only payments for the full term. The loan will be used to refinance a maturing construction loan. Modena Reserve at Kensington originally opened in late 2021, reaching a stabilized occupancy within 24 months.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — JLL has arranged $52 million in refinancing for Atria Newport Beach, a seniors housing community located at 393 Hospital Road in Newport Beach. The borrower is a partnership between a national REIT and Atria Senior Living. Aaron Rosenzwieg and Dan Baker of JLL Capital Markets arranged the financing. MidCap Financial provided the floating-rate, first-mortgage loan. Built in two phases with the north building fully renovated in 2023 and the south building purpose-built and opened in 2021, the three-story buildings offer a total of 168 studio, one- and two-bedroom independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Community amenities include 24-hour support staff, all-day dining, valet and concierge services, fitness classes, car services, housekeeping, a salon and spa, yoga studio, theatre, library, game room and underground parking garage.
WEST BEND, WIS. — Evans Senior Investments (ESI) has brokered the sale of Samaritan Health Center, a county-owned facility in West Bend, about 30 miles north of Milwaukee. The community was originally built in 1969 and renovated in 2009. The property offers three licensed programs: a skilled nursing facility, an assisted community-based residential facility (CBRF) and a supportive living, apartment-style residential care apartment complex (RCAC). Altogether, the center provides 186 beds, including 131 skilled nursing beds, 24 RCAC beds and 31 CBRF beds. According to ESI, Samaritan Health Center was 33 percent occupied at the time of marketing and struggling with negative cash flows. The property also needed substantial renovations. An independent owner-operator purchased the asset for an undisclosed price.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Berkadia has arranged the sale of The Aspens Verdae, a newly built, 159-unit active adult community in Greenville. Texas-based active adult developer Aspens Senior Living sold the community to Charleston-based Blaze Capital Partners and Partners Group, acting on behalf of its clients. Cody Tremper, Mike Garbers, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders led the Berkadia team in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed. Located in Greenville’s master-planned, 1,100-acre Verdae neighborhood, the Aspens Verdae provides direct access to retail, restaurants, healthcare and outdoor activities. The property was built in 2022 and features one- and two-bedroom apartments.
PHILADELPHIA — Locally based developer NewCourtland has completed a 178-unit mixed-income adaptive reuse project in Philadelphia’s East Falls neighborhood. The project converted the former Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institution, which originally opened in 1956 and has been vacant since 2013, into a 12-story residential complex that includes 40 affordable housing units for seniors. NewCourtland won a bid for the 14-acre site in 2015 and subsequently brought in architecture firm Looney Ricks Kiss to facilitate the transition of the site into a mixed-income property.
DULUTH, MINN. — Standard Communities led a public-private partnership in acquiring Lenox Place Apartments in Duluth, an eastern Minnesota city along Lake Superior. The transaction is capitalized at $37.1 million. Built in 1980 and located at 701 W. Superior St., the affordable housing property features 152 units. There are 143 one-bedroom units and nine two-bedroom residences for seniors and individuals with disabilities. Standard will extend the affordability of Lenox Place Apartments for 30 years, with resident income restricted to 60 percent of the area median income. Funding for the acquisition included Low-Income Housing Tax Credits secured through the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, and the Housing Redevelopment Authority of Duluth issued tax-exempt bonds. Huntington Bank provided the tax credit equity. Standard will significantly renovate the 14-story property at a cost of approximately $12 million. Residents will not be relocated during the renovations.