DENVER — Northstar Commercial Partners, a Denver-based developer, has broken ground on a 74-unit assisted living and memory care community in Denver. Being built on a recently acquired 1.6-acre vacant parcel, the community will be part of Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood on the former site of Stapleton International Airport. The Stapleton neighborhood already has 19,000 residents, 50 parks and 38 miles of trails. When completed, the 63,283-square-foot seniors housing community will offer 58 assisted living units and 16 memory care units. Northstar expects to finish construction in spring 2017. Balfour Senior Living will operate the community.
PRINCETON, IND. — Capital One has provided a $5.9 million fixed-rate loan to refinance a skilled nursing facility in Princeton, approximately 150 miles southwest of Indianapolis. Joshua Rosen of Capital One originated the 35-year HUD 232/223(f) financing. The Waters of Princeton consists of 45 semi-private and five private rooms. The facility was built in 1968 with an addition completed in 1974. The borrower in the transaction was undisclosed.
ORLANDO, FLA. — SunTrust Bank has provided a $39 million loan to Orlando Senior Health Network, which the owner-operator will use to expand Orlando Lutheran Towers in Orlando. The project will add 33 skilled nursing beds to the continuing care retirement community, along with 45 new full-time employees to serve the new residents. The $39 million loan includes both funds for capital improvements and refinancing of existing debt. Renovations are scheduled to begin this summer with the project scheduled for completion in 2018.
GOLETA, CALIF. — CBRE Capital Markets’ Debt & Structured Finance Team has arranged a $21.9 million FHA loan for the construction of Mariposa at Ellwood Shores, an 84-unit assisted living and memory care community in Goleta, located on the coast approximately 100 miles west of Los Angeles. Andrew Behrens and Jesse Weber of CBRE’s San Francisco office, along with Noah Reischmann of CBRE’s FHA lending platform, arranged the 40-year, non-recourse, fixed-rate loan with two years interest-only payments. Mariposa at Ellwood Shores will be a 60,909-square-foot, two-story community with 64 assisted living beds and a 20-bed memory care extension. Oliver Dixon and Westmont Living principals Andrew Plant and Michael O’Rourke will own the project. Westmont Living will operate the community once complete.
CHETEK, WIS. — Atrium Health and Senior Living has acquired Knapp Haven Nursing Home and Pelican Place Assisted Living in Chetek, approximately 100 miles northwest of Minneapolis. The connected facilities were purchased for $3.1 million. The community includes 14 assisted living units and 97 skilled nursing beds, for a price per bed of $27,928. The 60,691-square-foot community is fully private-pay. Evans Senior Investments brokered the deal.
TAMPA, FLA. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged $40.7 million in financing for a seniors housing property, apartment community and a shopping center in Florida. The properties include Twin Creeks Assisted Living, a 96-bed seniors housing property under construction in Riverview; Lakehouse Luxury Apartments, a 125-unit apartment property located at 3003 S. Frontage Road in Plant City; and Publix at Summerfield Crossings, a 69,917-square-foot shopping center located at 13146 U.S. Highway 301 South in Riverview. Robert Hernandez of NorthMarq Capital’s Tampa office arranged the loans. The financing included a three-year, $14.2 million, interest-only construction loan for the Twin Creeks property on behalf of the borrower, Lithia Assisted Living LLC; a 10-year, $12.5 million, Fannie Mae loan with a 30-year amortization schedule for the refinancing of Lakehouse Luxury Apartments on behalf of Lakeside Gardens of Plant City LLC; and a 10-year, $14 million loan with a 30-year amortization schedule for the refinancing of Publix at Summerfield Crossings on behalf of the borrower, Big Bend Group LLC.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Chicago Pacific Founders (CPF) and its subsidiaries, CPF Living Communities and Grace Management Inc., have acquired Manor at Midvale, a 140-unit independent living community in Tucson. This is CPF Living’s second property acquisition in the state of Arizona. The sale price was not disclosed. Manor at Midvale is a multi-story, multi-building community. The buyers plan to make investments to improve the property, though specific projects were not disclosed. Grace Management will operate the community.
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Real Estate Equities Development, a Minnesota-based development and management firm, has announced plans for The Village Cooperative of Verona Hills, a 63-unit seniors housing cooperative in Kansas City. Cooperatives are a type of active adult community that allows residents to share the costs of common amenities. The three-story community is age restricted for residents 62 and older. The amenities include a community room with kitchen, guest suite, club room, reading areas, outdoor gardening beds, workshop, fitness center, an on-site manager and heated underground parking. Units range from 876 to 1,602 square feet.
NEW YORK CITY — Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN) and Hines have purchased a development site at 139 E. 56th St. in Midtown Manhattan for an undisclosed price. The new owners plan to build a 15-story assisted living and memory care community on the site. Design and development plans are in progress and will be released at a later date. One known detail is that the ground floor will contain retail. Eastern Consolidated represented the sellers, Stephen Meringoff and Dennis Riese, the owners of the two existing properties that comprise the site, in the transaction. The existing buildings will be demolished to make way for the new community. This is the first venture into senior living for Hines, an international real estate development, investment and management company. Although the company is based in Houston, this deal was made through the New York office. Toledo, Ohio-based Welltower, meanwhile, is the largest healthcare REIT in the United States by market cap. Formerly known as Health Care REIT, the company was the third-largest owner of seniors housing properties in the country as of June 1, according to the American Seniors Housing Association.
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, OHIO — Lancaster Pollard has arranged $28.3 million in financing for Sisters of the Holy Spirit, a faith-based nonprofit operator based in the Cleveland suburb of Garfield Heights. The financing is arranged as two loans. The first was a $12.6 million nonrecourse HUD loan that replaces existing bonds on Jennings Center for Older Adults, a 438-unit independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing and adult daycare community in Garfield Heights. The second transaction was $15.7 million in tax-exempt bond financing for the construction of a 74-unit assisted living community, to be named Jennings at Brecksville, in nearby Brecksville. The transactions were also structured around the creation of a new real estate company, which will allow Sisters of the Holy Spirit to distribute excess funds from the Garfield Heights community to the Brecksville community without penalty. Kass Matt led the transaction for Lancaster Pollard.