CORTE MADERA, Calif. — The Atlanta-based Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Team of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has arranged a $42.3 million refinancing for Aegis of Corte Madera, a 118-unit assisted living and memory care near San Francisco. A life insurance company provided funding for the loan. Grandbridge’s Richard Thomas, senior vice president, and Meredith Davis, vice president, originated the transaction. Grandbridge Real Estate Capital arranges permanent commercial and multifamily real estate loans, services loan portfolios and provides asset and portfolio management, as well as real estate brokerage services.
Seniors Housing
LAKE CHARLES, LA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of The Gardens and The Guardian, a 108-bed seniors housing property located at 1401 Country Club Road in Lake Charles. The sales price was undisclosed, but the list price was $9.6 million. Rod Llanos and Doug O’Toole of Marcus & Millichap’s Houston office represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. Llanos and O’Toole also secured the buyer, also a limited liability company. William Hoffpauir of Marcus & Millichap assisted in the transaction.
CBRE Arranges $25M Construction Financing for 129-Unit Seniors Housing Community in Arizona
by Nellie Day
TUSCON, ARIZ. — CBRE National Senior Housing has arranged a $25 million construction loan for Hacienda at The River, a 129-unit assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing community in Tuscon. A joint venture of The Freshwater Group and Watermark Retirement Communities is developing the community on a 5.75 acre plot. When completed, Watermark will manage the community. Aron Will, executive vice president of CBRE National Senior Housing, and Jim Sellers and Tim Prouty, both senior vice presidents of the CBRE Debt & Structured Finance office in Tucson, secured a three-year, floating-rate loan that then converts to a three-year, mini-perm loan. The loan was placed through a regional bank. Based in Tuscon, Watermark is the 13th largest operator of seniors housing communities in the U.S. with 38 communities comprising 7,483 units, according to 2015 data from the American Seniors Housing Association.
MURRIETA, CALIF. — Developer and operator Anthem Memory Care has broken ground on Vineyard Place, a $12.6 million memory care community in Murrieta, about 80 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Anthem expects to open the 38,000-square-foot, 66-unit community in summer 2016. Working with Anthem on developing and building Vineyard Place are CM Consulting, Markham Development Management Group, CBTwo Architects, Consolidated Contracting and LTC Properties, which is providing financing. Anthem, based in Lake Oswego, Ore., also operates a dementia care community in Chico, Calif., and four in Denver. It is currently developing three communities in the greater Chicago area.
MURRIETA, CALIF. — Developer and operator Anthem Memory Care has broken ground on Vineyard Place, a $12.6 million memory care community in Murrieta, about 80 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Anthem expects to open the 38,000-square-foot, 66-unit community in summer 2016. Working with Anthem on developing and building Vineyard Place are CM Consulting, Markham Development Management Group, CBTwo Architects, Consolidated Contracting and LTC Properties, which is providing financing. Anthem, based in Lake Oswego, Ore., also operates a dementia care community in Chico, Calif., and four in Denver. It is currently developing three communities in the greater Chicago area.
BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. — Seniors housing developer Koelsch Senior Communities has started construction on Lakeview Memory Care Community in Bloomingdale, about 25 miles west of Chicago. The 46-unit, 65-bed memory care community totals 33,958 square feet and will cost $13.3 million to complete. Koelsch expects to open the community’s doors in October 2016. RJ Development Services is the developer of the community. Olympia, Wash.-based Koelsch will be general contractor, interior designer and, when complete, operator of the community. Wedgwood Architects of Vancouver, Wash., provided architectural services. Koelsch owns and operates 17 seniors housing communities in Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Texas, Illinois and California.
LAKE CITY, MICH. — Silver Arch Capital Partners has closed a $4.75 million loan for the owner/operator of Belle Oakes Living Center, a 48-unit, 32,000-square-foot assisted living facility on 20 acres in Lake City, approximately 40 miles southeast of Traverse City. The loan is a refinancing of an existing mortgage, which will help the community pay off debt incurred as part of an 11-unit expansion. Constructed in 2002 and renovated in 2012, Belle Oakes is situated in Missaukee County, in Michigan’s lower peninsula. Silver Arch Capital Partners is a private commercial real estate lender based in New Jersey.
MIDLOTHIAN, VA. — Blacksburg, Va.-based developer HHHunt has broken ground on Spring Arbor of Salisbury Memory Care in Midlothian, about 15 miles west of Richmond. The memory care community will occupy a 48,275-square-foot building adjacent to Spring Arbor of Salisbury, one of HHHunt’s six existing senior living communities in Virginia. HHHunt expects to open the community in the fall of 2016. HHHunt currently owns and manages 21 communities in Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland, with more in various stages of development.
CINCINNATI AND DAYTON, OHIO — CBRE Group Inc. has arranged the sale of 15 skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living facilities in Cincinnati and Dayton for $173 million. California-based investor CareTrust REIT Inc., which spun off from The Ensign Group last year, purchased the properties from Liberty Healthcare. The properties are mostly skilled nursing facilities, comprising more than 1,200 licensed beds. According to CBRE, this transaction marks the initial entry into Ohio for both CareTrust and Pristine Senior Living, which will operate the portfolio. Seniors housing specialist Dan Baker, in cooperation with Ohio-based healthcare specialist Bill Wiebe, both of CBRE, represented the seller in the deal.
LAKE ZURICH, ILL. —CNL Health Care Properties has acquired a community developed by Spectrum Retirement Communities, which will continue to operate the facilities. The purchase price was not disclosed. The community is an 86-unit assisted living and memory care community located in Lake Zurich, a northern suburb of Chicago. The community opened in 2014 and is 96 percent occupied. Orlando-based CNL is the 21st largest owner of seniors housing properties in the U.S. and Denver-based Spectrum is the 38th largest operator, according to the American Seniors Housing Association.