Seniors Housing

CARMEL, IND. — Leo Brown Group has opened two senior living communities in the Indianapolis area and began construction on two new senior living communities in Ohio and Kentucky. The four projects combined total $66 million in new investment by the Carmel-based developer, owner, and operator of healthcare properties. The newly open properties include Traditions at Solana, a 105-unit senior community within the new Solana at the Crossing residential development; and Traditions at Reagan Park, an 82-unit assisted living and memory care community. The $16.7 million Traditions at Solana project is located at 78th Street and Keystone Avenue. The $11.5 million Traditions at Reagan Park is located in Avon just west of the Indiana University Health West hospital campus. The new facility is part of the larger Reagan Park senior living campus developed by Leo Brown Group. Both projects opened in June. Through its management company affiliate, Traditions Management, Leo Brown Group will run day-to-day operations at both of the communities. Leo Brown Group broke ground on Middleton of Granville in Ohio and plans to break ground on Traditions at Beaumont in Kentucky. Middleton of Granville is a joint venture between Leo Brown Group and Columbus, Ohio-based Continental Real Estate …

EDWARDSVILLE, ILL. — IMPACT Strategies has completed construction on Cedarhurst of Edwardsville, an $8 million memory care facility in Edwardsville, approximately 23 miles northeast of St. Louis. The property is located at 7108 Marine Road and is near I-55. Cedarhurst of Edwardsville is a 32,987-square-foot, single-story building with 54 memory care apartments. The building is divided into four neighborhoods to foster care for its residents all with access to the interior outdoor courtyard. Oregon-based Lenity Group LLC designed the memory care facility. Dover Capital LLC, which also has Cedarhurst facilities in Collinsville and Shiloh, developed and will manage the property. Construction management firm IMPACT also built the Shiloh assisted living property in 2010 and recently completed an expansion to the property.

CHICAGO, MARION AND ITASCA, ILL. — Capital One Specialty Healthcare Real Estate, part of Capital One Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Group, has provided $31.8 million in HUD 232/223(f) loans for a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities in Illinois. A loan of $8.8 million will be used to acquire a 125-bed property in Marion built in 1966 and renovated in 2011. Loans of $17.9 million and $5.1 million will be used to refinance a 228-bed facility constructed in 1996 in Chicago and a 144-bed facility built in 1975 with an addition in 1983 in Itasca. The fixed-rate loan for the Marion facility has a 30-year term. Those for the Chicago and Itasca facilities have terms of 35 years. Joshua Rosen, who leads the company’s agency healthcare efforts from the company’s Chicago office, originated the loan. The undisclosed borrower has closed several deals with Capital One Multifamily Finance during the past year and has extensive long-term care and real estate management experience.

DALLAS — Capital Senior Living Corp. has purchased three senior living communities, known as the Ohio JV Communities, located in Ohio from joint ventures in which it held a 10 percent interest for $83.6 million. The Dallas-based company previously managed the Ohio JV Communities under long-term management agreements. The Ohio JV Communities are comprised of 433 units, consisting of 227 independent living units and 206 assisted living units. Two communities are financed with $40.1 million of 10-year fixed rate debt that is non-recourse to the company with a blended interest rate of 4.41 percent. The third community is financed with a $21.6 million two-year bridge loan with a variable interest rate beginning at approximately 2.9 percent.