LOS ANGELES — JCH Consulting Group, a brokerage specializing in seniors housing, has arranged the sale of a 90-unit assisted living and memory care community in Los Angeles for $23.4 million. The name of the facility was not disclosed. The seller was an independent owner/operator based in Southern California. The buyer was a real estate investment firm that will use a third-party management company. With a sales price of $260,000 per unit, the community currently features a 6.6 percent capitalization rate and 86 percent occupancy.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Arizona-based marketing agency Leavitt Digital has launched its Senior Living Division and hired Kim Tranmer, a 25-year industry veteran, as managing director. Leavitt Digital’s new division focuses on increasing the online presence, search engine optimization (SEO), review monitoring, and press releases distribution in the seniors housing industry. Tranmer’s career in seniors housing includes sales, marketing, consulting and management prior to joining Leavitt Digital. Her primary role will be business development and relationship management, presenting Leavitt Digital’s platform to owners, managers and consultants in the industry.
FORT BELVOIR, VA. — The Fairfax, a military retirement community in Fort Belvoir owned and operated by Sunrise Senior Living, has become the first seniors housing community to receive wildlife sanctuary certification from the Audubon Society. Beginning in 2012, The Fairfax resident and retired Navy officer James Harkin began working with the Audubon at Home program of the Audubon Society of Northern Virginia to encourage more birds, butterflies and other wildlife to visit the community’s campus, which includes a seven-acre lake and numerous nature trails. Sunrise team members and several other residents planted native plants, reduced pesticide and fertilizer use and removed invasive species. Residents and employees observed 10 “sanctuary species” using the property for building nests, feeding and foraging, and raising young, qualifying the property as a sanctuary. More than 40 species of birds and butterflies have found a home at The Fairfax Wildlife Sanctuary.
IRVINE, CALIF. — Real estate investment company WNC has closed WNC Institutional Tax Credit Fund X California Series 13 LP, a $75 million institutional, low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) fund. The fund, which includes seven investors, will acquire nine properties in California. Composed of family and senior housing properties, the fund includes 978 units of affordable housing in both suburban and urban parts of the state, including Casa de Seniors in San Clemente, a 72-unit seniors housing rehabilitation project. This is the company’s second largest equity raise, thus far. WNC, which is based in Irvine, has closed a total of 18 California funds that have acquired more than 250 properties in 46 counties.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Red Capital Partners has provided a $36.5 million balance sheet acquisition loan to Investment360 for the purchase of James Square Health and Rehabilitation Centre in Syracuse. Excelerate Healthcare will operate the 440-bed skilled nursing facility as part of a long-term lease agreement with Investment360. Kathryn Burton Gray and James Scribner of Red Capital Partners arranged the financing for the borrower.
TAMPA, FLA. — Enriched Community Development LLC (ECD), a Tampa-based seniors housing developer, plans to break ground on an 80-unit assisted living and memory care facility in the Fishhawk area of southeast Tampa. The new community will be called Twin Creeks and will include 58 assisted living units and 22 memory care units in 62,000 square feet. ECD expects to break ground before the fourth quarter of 2015. Construction is expected to take approximately 11 months.
EUGENE, ORE. — Lancaster Pollard has provided $6.7 million in financing for Benicia Senior Living to fund the acquisition and rehabilitation of River Grove, a 60-unit assisted living and memory care community in Eugene. The funding will be used to renovate three of the community’s four buildings and build a commercial kitchen to serve the campus. Once renovations are complete, the entire campus will be dedicated to memory care. The financing structure, which included senior and mezzanine loans, allowed for the borrower to avoid raising substantial amounts of equity otherwise required for conventional financing. The financing carries five-year terms. Doug Korey, president of Lancaster Pollard, led the financing.
ST. PAUL, MINN — Oak Grove Capital has closed on 12 loans totaling $70.3 million since late May. The properties ranged from affordable and market-rate housing to senior living communities. The most significant closing for the St. Paul-based firm —an $18.2 million FHA loan modification for TowerLight Senior Living — occurred June 30. The 113-unit senior community complex is located in St. Louis Park, Minn. The loan modification was facilitated by Ken Dayton of Oak Grove Capital. Amenities at TowerLight include an intergenerational child and elderly care program, fitness center, beauty salon, library and game room, gourmet kitchen, reflection room, clubroom, theater and an arts and craft room.
NASHUA, N.H. — Cushman & Wakefield of New Hampshire has arranged the $2 million sale of a former manufacturing facility located on 8.5 acres at 575 Amherst Street in Nashua. The property will be redeveloped as Bridges by EPOCH at Nashua, a 54-bed assisted living memory care community slated to open in fall 2016. National Development and Epoch Senior Living have partnered to acquire and redevelop the property. Thomas Farrelly, Denis Dancoes II and Sue Ann Johnson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Nashua RE Holdings LLC, in the transaction.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Lancaster Pollard has provided $5.4 million in HUD financing for Springhurst Pines, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Louisville. Baptist Homes Inc. (BHI) owns and operates the CCRC, which includes three separate facilities on a 20-acre campus. The financing will be used to convert 35 percent of the community’s semi-private Medicaid skilled nursing units to private Medicare units, as well as build a 40-unit Medicare wing with therapy space. The nonrecourse loan made through HUD’s 232/241(a) supplemental loan program has a loan term of 25 years. Chris Blanda led the transaction for Lancaster Pollard.