LAKE WORTH, FLA. — Big Rock Partners, a national real estate management and development firm, will begin construction this month on Atria at Villages of Windsor, a Class A seniors housing community in southern Palm Beach County. Big Rock is developing the community on a 22.5-acre site in the Villages of Windsor development. The new community will offer a total of 186 independent living units, 78 assisted living apartments and a 54-unit memory care building. Ventas Inc., one of the largest REITs in seniors housing, will provide equity capital and be the principal owner of the community when finished. Wells Fargo will provide construction financing. The finance advisor is Walker & Dunlop. Gensler is providing architectural services, and Moss & Associates is the construction manager. Atria Senior Living, which operates 180 senior living communities throughout the U.S. and Canada, will operate and market the community. Big Rock expects the community to open in the summer of 2017.
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HAYWARD, CALIF. — The City of Hayward recently broke ground on three new multifamily communities. The properties are situated on the site of the former South Hayward BART overflow parking lots. Eden Housing is developing two affordable communities off Mission Boulevard that will provide a total of 151 affordable apartments near the South Hayward BART station. AMCAL Equities is developing a market-rate community of 206 luxury apartments off Dixon Street, adjacent to the BART station. Both developments received transit-oriented development grants from the California Department of Housing and Community Development. The Eden Housing development is known as the South Hayward BART Family & Seniors Communities. The two affordable rental communities will be composed of adjacent five-story, standalone buildings that share a common courtyard. They will provide 87 affordable rental apartments for families and 64 affordable rental apartments for seniors, aged 62 or older. AMCAL’s development is known as Cadence. The community will feature one- and two-bedroom, market-rate apartments. Amenities will include a state-of-the-art fitness center with separate yoga room, a resident lounge, pool and spa deck, clubhouse, business center, pet spa, self-service bike parking and repair, and package concierge service.
PARK RIDGE, Ill. — CBRE National Senior Housing has arranged financing on behalf of Capitol Seniors Housing (CSH) for the acquisition of The Summit of Uptown, a 147-unit independent living and assisted living community located in Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago. CBRE secured a $27.9 million, non-recourse, floating-rate bridge loan that includes a five-year term with 36 months of interest-only payments from a regional bank. Total proceeds includes a loan of $21.7 million for the acquisition of the property along with a loan of $4.2 million for planned capital improvements and a $2 million earnout feature. CSH, a seniors housing investment company, plans to convert 28 independent living units to assisted living and add 21 memory care units. Once complete, the community will feature a fortified memory care wing and can provide its residents with a full continuum of care. CSH will lease the community to Atlanta-based operator The Arbor Company.
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, OHIO — Lancaster Pollard has provided a $17 million FHA refinance for The Village at Marymount, a nonprofit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) affiliated with the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis. The community is located in Garfield Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. The CCRC consists of Villa St. Joseph (a 102-bed skilled nursing and 12-bed memory care facility), Marymount Place (a 104-unit assisted living facility) and Clare Hall (a long-term care facility that includes a newly renovated 10-bed inpatient hospital unit). The loan carries a 35-year term, is nonrecourse, has no financial covenants, and provides for approximately $171,000 in annual debt service savings as well as nearly $75,000 for repairs and improvements. Kass Matt led the transaction for Lancaster Pollard.
DYER, IND. — Skilled nursing developer Mainstreet and operator Symphony Post Acute Network have opened Symphony of Dyer, a skilled nursing facility in Dyer approximately 30 miles south of Chicago. Construction on the facility began in June 2014. It comprises 130 beds in 85,108 square feet of space. Development costs were $20.8 million.
BROKEN ARROW, OKLA. — RED Capital Partners, the proprietary debt and equity banking arm of RED Capital Group, has closed a $17.2 million balance sheet construction loan for Prevarian Senior Living to build Prairie House Assisted Living and Memory Care, located on the campus of St. John Medical Center Hospital in Broken Arrow. Prairie House will be a 93,000-square-foot, two-story seniors housing community and will accommodate more than 100 senior citizens. The facility will include 73 alcove, one- and two-bedroom floor plans for assisted living. There will also be 32 suites designed for memory care residents. Construction began Sept. 9 and the project is expected to open in November 2016. The 105-unit, 117-bed assisted living and memory care property will operate under a long-term ground lease from an affiliate of St. John Medical Center Hospital. LifeCare Services, based in Des Moines, Iowa, will operate the property.
FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — Brendon Properties has acquired Marist House Retreat Center at 518 Pleasant St. in Framingham. Marist Fathers of Boston sold the two-building property, which totals 50,077 square feet, for $4 million. The buyer plans to redevelop the 28.7-acre property into a seniors housing townhome community. The property includes a 45,000-square-foot, 70-bed former seminarian residence, a chapel, support space and administration offices. Robert Cronin and Kevin Brawley of Colliers arranged the transaction. Brendon Properties is a builder of age-restricted developments in the MetroWest region.
CBRE Arranges $12M Fannie Mae Loan to Refinance Independent Living Community in California
by Nellie Day
CARMICHAEL, CALIF. — CBRE National Senior Housing has arranged a $12 million, fixed-rate loan from Fannie Mae to refinance Winding Commons, a 100-unit independent living community in metro Sacramento. The borrower is Sacramento-based Ray Stone Inc. (RSI), the community’s operator since it opened in 2003. RSI manages six communities in California comprising over 800 units. Aron Will, executive vice president of CBRE National Senior Housing, and Kevin Randles, senior vice president of CBRE’s Debt and Structured Finance office in Sacramento, led the transaction.
PHOENIX — Grandbrige Real Estate Capital’s seniors housing and healthcare finance team has arranged a $10.5 million refinancing for Avista North Mountain, an assisted living, memory care and independent living community in Phoenix. The community comprises 134 units. BB&T Real Estate Funding provided the capital.
HIGGINSVILLE, MO. — Lancaster Pollard has arranged funding for a refinance and renovation of John Knox Village East in Higginsville, which is 50 miles east of Kansas City. John Knox Village East is a senior living facility that features both intermediate care and skilled nursing beds and is managed by Life Care Services. The renovation will increase the number of skilled nursing beds, adding 16 private beds in a new wing. Lancaster Pollard worked with local banks to provide construction financing for the renovation and also obtained permanent financing via a $7.1 million loan insured by the USDA Community Facilities program. Mike Ashley led the transaction for Lancaster Pollard.