MILTON, GA. — Phoenix Senior Living has broken ground on Phoenix at Milton, a $17 million assisted living and memory care community in Milton, about 30 miles north of Atlanta. Phoenix at Milton will have 85 apartments — 67 for traditional assisted living and 19 for memory care.
IRVINE, CALIF. — Sabra Health Care REIT Inc. has acquired two portfolios in Illinois, Oregon and Washington for a total cost of $84.7 million. The REIT acquired a five-community portfolio in Illinois for $19.7 million. The portfolio includes 149 units, mostly memory care. Concurrent with the purchase, Sabra entered into a triple-net master lease agreement with Life’s Journey Senior Living to operate the portfolio. The lease has an initial term of 10 years with two five-year renewal options and provides for an annual rent escalator equal to the greater of the Consumer Price Index or 3 percent. The second portfolio included four communities in Washington and Oregon totaling 196 assisted living units and 18 independent living units. The purchase price was $65 million. Sabra entered into a triple-net master lease agreement with Radiant Senior Living to operate the portfolio. The lease has an initial term of 10 years with two five-year renewal options and provides for an annual rent escalator of 3 percent, resulting in annual lease revenues, determined in accordance with GAAP, of $5 million and an initial yield on cash rent of 6.75%. Based in Irvine, Sabra is the 26th largest owner of seniors housing properties in the …
GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. — Welbrook Senior Living and Embree Healthcare Group have started construction of a new transitional rehabilitation facility in Grand Junction, and have secured final financing for the project from CNL Healthcare Properties, a real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Orlando, Fla. The facility, the name of which was not released, will feature 50 private suites. Texas-based Embree is developing the facility, which California-based Welbrook will operate when complete. The companies expect to admit the first resident in the second half of 2016.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Winn Companies, in partnership with Albany Housing Authority, has opened Livingston School Apartments in Albany after a $20.7 million adaptive reuse project. The company converted the four-story, 230,000-square-foot historic building into 103 units of mixed-income housing for seniors. The new property features 12 studio apartments, 76 one-bedroom apartments and 15 two-bedroom apartments. Eleven units are handicapped accessible and five are equipped for hearing or visually impaired residents. The Architectural Team served as architect and Keith Construction served as general contractor on the project, which was funded by federal and state low-income housing tax credits, and federal and state historic tax credits. Winn Companies includes Winn Development and Winn Residential. With the addition of Livingston School, Winn Residential now manages 9,200 apartments at 58 residential properties in New York State, as well as more than 4,000 homes for members of the U.S. Army at Fort Dunn.
ASHLAND, ORE. — An undisclosed buyer has purchased Skylark Assisted Living, a 75-unit assisted living and 34-bed memory care facility in Ashland, for $10.8 million. Skylark Assisted Living, located within the Mountain Meadows age-restricted community, opened in 1997. Skylark was 90 percent occupied at the time of the sale. Dan Mahoney and Tony Cassie, directors of Marcus & Millichap’s National Seniors Housing Group in Portland, represented the sellers and procured the buyer in this transaction.
CLEARFIELD, UTAH — RED Mortgage Capital, the proprietary mortgage banking arm of RED Capital Group LLC, has closed an $11.1M Fannie Mae loan for MBK Senior Living to refinance Chancellor Gardens of Clearfield, an assisted living and memory care community in Clearfield about 25 miles north of Salt Lake City. Chancellor Gardens is a 130-unit community constructed in 1999 and expanded in 2009. Founded in 1986, MBK owns and operates 13 communities across California, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and Washington.
CONCORD, CALIF. — Carlton Senior Living, an operator of 11 seniors housing communities in Northern California, has named industry veteran David Coluzzi as its new president. The company is based in Concord, located between San Francisco and Sacramento, and is looking to expand its portfolio of independent living, assisted living and memory care properties. Serving the industry for over 26 years, Coluzzi most recently was CEO of Esquire Group, a senior living and apartment company with 1,200 units in seven communities in New Jersey. Coluzzi was formerly vice president of operations at Classic Residence by Hyatt (now known as Vi). He directed the management of a portfolio consisting of 10 luxury continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) while leading the start-up of two new communities and an expansion that resulted in more than 4,000 independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing units in California, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, South Carolina and Florida. Coluzzi served in the United States Air Force and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in health care administration from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
YORKTOWN, VA. — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s seniors housing and healthcare finance team in Atlanta has funded a $13.7 million construction loan for The Crossings on the Peninsula in Yorktown. The new 104-unit, 86,000-square-foot facility comprises 68 assisted living residences and a 34-bed memory care wing known as Harmony Square Town Center. The property’s amenities will include a library, computer lab, on-site fitness center, theater, pub, dining room, multi-purpose room, beauty shop, nursing/physician center and a swimming pool. Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis of Grandbridge coordinated the transaction with Neal Lineberry of parent company BB&T on behalf of the borrower, Roanoke, Va.-based Smith/Packett Med-Com LLC.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Hawthorne Gardens Assisted Living, a 58-unit, 84-bed assisted living and memory care facility in Portland, for $10.8 million. Located in East Portland, Hawthorne Gardens was built in 2007 and was 88 percent occupied at the time of the sale. Dan Mahoney and Tony Cassie, directors of Marcus & Millichap’s National Seniors Housing Group in Portland, represented the sellers and procured the buyer in this transaction.
CHICAGO — Evans Senior Investments (ESI), a Chicago-based investment banking firm, has arranged the sale of 13 Agapé Senior Living communities in South Carolina for $153.9 million. The portfolio includes 10 independent living and assisted living communities totaling 856 units, plus three skilled nursing facilities totaling 294 beds. The oldest building in the portfolio was constructed in 1990 and the smallest facility is 58 units. A private equity firm, the name of which was not released, purchased the portfolio at a cost of $156,424 per unit for the independent and assisted living communities, and $68,027 per bed for the skilled nursing facilities.