PORT ROYAL, S.C. — Big Rock Partners and joint venture partner Millennium Real Estate Group plan to develop a $25 million seniors housing rental community in Port Royal, near Hilton Head Island in South Carolina’s Lowcountry region. The partnership plans to begin construction on the project in early 2016 and wrap up construction in early 2017. The property will span 126 rental residences — 60 independent living, 45 assisted living and 21 memory care. The new community will be located on a 50-acre property that Millennium Real Estate Group owns. The other components of the tract include The Preserve luxury apartments, Port Royal Center and the Keyserling Cancer Center, which is an affiliate of Duke Medicine. Winston-Salem-based CJMW Architecture is designing the community.
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ACWORTH, GA. — Construction has begun on Celebration Village Acworth with plans to open the 16.5-acre seniors housing community in May 2016. The community includes 114 independent living apartments, 44 apartment homes, 55 assisted living units and 31 memory care apartments. Active Senior Concepts and AgeWell Living developed the Celebration concept. Active Senior Concepts’s developments are located throughout metro Atlanta. AgeWell, located in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., will operate the community.
MURFREESBORO, TENN. — National Health Investors Inc. (NYSE:NHI) has obtained $78 million in Fannie Mae financing through KeyBank National Association. The debt financing consists of interest-only payments at 3.79 percent and a 10-year maturity. The mortgages are secured by 13 properties in NHI’s joint venture with Bickford Senior Living. Proceeds were used to reduce borrowings on NHI’s unsecured bank credit facility. NHI is a real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in sale-leaseback, joint venture, mortgage and mezzanine financing of seniors housing and medical investments. NHI’s portfolio consists of independent living, assisted living and memory care communities, entrance-fee retirement communities, skilled nursing facilities, medical office buildings and specialty hospitals.
LOS ANGELES – Subsidiaries of Senior Housing Realty Trust (SHRT) have received a $635.6-million Fannie Mae credit facility. The new credit facility refinanced a 12-property senior care community portfolio throughout California, Arizona, Oregon and Georgia. The new structure provides a 10-year, fixed-rate, interest-only loan with releases, additions and substitutions. It also has the capacity to expand with additional fixed or floating debt. The facility was closed by Keybank Real Estate Capital. SHRT is a Maryland REIT that is owned by an affiliate of Senior Resource Group LLC (SRG). It received the new credit facility with its institutional partners. The firm also led an $84-million syndicated credit facility secured by a senior housing community in Los Angeles in 2013 that was owned by a predecessor SRG joint venture. When SHRT acquired the senior housing community in late 2014, that credit facility was expanded to $86 million. The $86-million Keybank credit facility was then refinanced by this new Fannie Mae credit facility.
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided $93.75 million in Fannie Mae loans to finance a portfolio of four assisted-living communities in Long Island. The borrower was NorthStar Healthcare Income Inc., which acquired the 570-unit portfolio in September of 2014. The portfolio includes The Arbors at Bohemia, The Arbors at Islandia, The Arbors at Hauppauge and The Arbors at Westbury, located in Jericho, N.Y. The properties are 100 percent leased to Arcadia Management Inc. Monique Bimler of KeyBank arranged the financing.
PITTSBURGH — Tryko Partners LLC has acquired Duff Manor, an age-restricted affordable housing property in Pittsburgh from Crossgates Inc. Located at 50 Duff Road, the 10-story Duff Manor Apartments building features 100 one-bedroom residences with air conditioning and a patio or balcony. On-site amenities include intercom-controlled access, a community room and laundry facilities. Marcus & Millichap brokered the transaction. Tryko Partners secured financing for the acquisition through M&T Bank. The acquisition price was not released.
KISSIMMEE, FLA. — HJ Sims, an investment bank and brokerage firm, has financed the construction of Tuscan Isle, a seniors housing community in Kissimmee. Tuscan Isle will comprise 120 independent living units, 56 assisted living units and 36 memory care units. The independent living units will be housed in a four-story building, made up of one- and two-bedroom units ranging in size from 706 to 1,230 square feet. The assisted living units will consist of studios and one- and two-bedroom units ranging in size from 390 to 620 square feet. The memory care units will provide for 36 residents in private rooms. Tuscan Isle has a preliminary shared services agreement with AV Homes, the developer of neighboring community Solivita. The Tuscan Isle project began in January and is currently under construction with a planned completion date in spring 2016. Phase II of construction will incorporate a skilled nursing expansion. Construction financing consists of $40.5 million tax-exempt bonds and $1.7 million taxable bonds. The preferred equity consists of taxable bonds for accredited investors, totaling $6.2 million. The owners of Tuscan Isle include affiliates of Vieste Group, a program management and development services company from Chicago; HJ Sims Investments, an affiliate of …
HOUSTON — LMI Capital has arranged loans for three properties in Houston. In the first transaction, Brandon Brown of LMI Capital arranged $4.3 million in debt for the refinance of two Class A, boutique multifamily assets in the Spring Branch submarket. The 10-year, fixed-rate loans both loans feature 4 percent interest rates and 30-year amortization schedules. In the second transaction, Brown arranged $8.4 million in debt for the refinance of a 124-unit seniors housing complex in Missouri City. The 10-year, fixed-rate CMBS loan will provide cash out proceeds to the client. The loan represented a 75 percent loan-to-value ratio and included a 30-year amortization schedule. In the third transaction, Jamie Stein of LMI Capital arranged $6.5 million in financing for a garden-style apartment complex in the Spring Branch submarket. Stein secured a 10-year, fixed-rate loan inclusive of a capital improvements component with a CMBS lender. The mortgage includes three years of interest-only payments.
VINCENNES, IND. — Flaherty & Collins Properties and Myszak + Palmer will host a grand opening ceremony for Clark’s Crossing, a senior living center in Vincennes on March 18. The property is located at 300 N. 6th St. Clark’s Crossing features 47 one- and two-bedroom apartment homes, which include fully equipped kitchens with energy efficient appliances, hardwood flooring, oversized closets, and washers and dryers. The project is an adaptive reuse of two historic buildings. The development used the sale of historic tax credits and rental housing tax credits to turn the two buildings into a senior living facility. A collaborative effort between Myszak + Palmer, Flaherty & Collins Properties, Vincennes Community School Corporation (VCSC), The Vincennes Education Foundation and Vision Communities, the project involved the reuse of the old Clark Middle School and Adams Coliseum. Part of the project included the restoration of Adams Coliseum, which included the addition of new, brighter lighting, painted bleachers and new windows at the historic gym. Adams Coliseum will be run by The Vincennes Education Foundation, and will include programming that will encourage resident and community interaction. Kuhl & Grant LLP provided legal services and McKinley Development LLC provided consulting services on the project. …
PROVO, UTAH — Courtyard at Jamestown, a 132-unit assisted living and dementia care seniors housing community in Provo, has received $24.2 million in acquisition financing. The facility is located at 3352 N. 100 E. The community opened in 1999. It is situated about three miles north of Provo’s Central Business District, just minutes from Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. The borrower was ROC|Seniors Housing Fund Manager. ROC|Seniors is a subsidiary of Bridge Investment Group Partners. The seven-year Freddie Mac loan features a fixed-rate term with an interest-only period. It was structured by Berkeley Point Capital. This is Berkeley Point’s third financing with ROC Seniors over the past year.