HAZEL PARK, MICH. — Love Funding has closed a $11.5 million rehabilitation loan for the refinance and rehabilitation of American House – Hazel Park Senior Living apartments. Located in Hazel Park, the property offers 125 one- and two-bedroom apartments and two-bedroom/two-bath freestanding duplex cottages. Community amenities include a community room/dining room, a theater, game and craft rooms and a library. Mickey Rist and Bruce Gerhart of Love Funding's Cleveland office originated the transaction.
HARTSELLE, AL. — Columbia Cottage – Hartselle LLC has acquired Sierra Springs in Hartselle for $1.8 million or $56,000 per unit. LSJ Investments sold the assisted-living property, which was built in 2000. At the time of acquisition, the property was 87 percent occupied. Ryan Maconachy and Scott Corbin of ARA Seniors' Dallas office represented the seller in the transaction. The property will be managed by Huntsville, Ala.-based Cottage Senior Living.
QUINCY, MASS. — LNR has announced that a new senior housing facility will be developed within the SoutField master-planned community. William B. Rice Eventide Home will build a new independent living and skilled nursing facility on 9.4 acres within SouthField Highlands, the community's first residential neighborhood. It will contain 192 independent living units and 46 beds of skilled nursing housing. Rogerson Communities is serving as developer for the project, and locally based Shesky Architects is designing it. Construction for the $45 to $50 million project is expected to begin in 2012. Formerly the South Weymouth Naval Air Station, SouthField will feature, at full build-out, 2 million square feet of commercial space, 2,850 units of housing, a movie studio, a golf course and an indoor/outdoor sports and recreation complex.
FORT MYERS, FLA. — Hope Hospice & Community Services has acquired a 46.3-acre land parcel, located at the northwest corner of Six Mile Cypress Parkway and Metro Parkway in Fort Myers. The buyer plans to development a high-quality care facility on the site, which was acquired for $7.56 million. Michael Doyle of LandQwest Commercial represented Hope Hospice in the transaction. The seller was not released.
TALLAHASSEE, FLA. — Stragetic Capital Partners, through its Stragetic Capital Partners Real Estate Opportunity Fund I, has acquired University Courtyard in Tallahassee. The 96-unit, 384-bed student-housing complex was acquired through a partnership sponsored by Atlanta-based Global Asset Alternatives. The partnership invested approximately $2.1 million of equity and received 10-year Freddie Mac financing originated by Walker & Dunlop. The property was 100 percent occupied at the time of acquisition. Terms of the transaction were not released.
TULSA, OKLA. — The LaSalle Group of Dallas will break ground this week on its first specialized Alzheimer's and Memory Care Assisted Living Community in Oklahoma, Autumn Leaves of Tulsa. Located at 7807 S. Mingo in Tulsa, the project marks the 16th venture of its kind for The LaSalle Group in the past 10 years. Nine Autumn Leaves communities are operating in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, three in the greater Chicago area and one in Houston. Autumn Leaves of Tulsa is scheduled to be completed by fall 2011. The property will feature 38 units and accommodate approximately 46 residents.
CRYSTAL LAKE, ILL. — Cambridge Realty Capital has closed a $6.03 million HUD Lean loan to refinance Crystal Pines, a 114-bed skilled nursing home in Crystal Lake. The fully-amortizated, 30-year term loan was underwritten by Cambridge Realty Capital Ltd. of Illinois, the Cambridge business that underwrites HUD loans. The lender used the HUD Section 232 pursuant to HUD Section 232(a)(7) funding product, which is used to refinance properties with existing HUD loans. The borrower was the property's owner, a Missouri limited liability company.
SHERMAN, ILL. — Cambridge Realty Capital Corp. has closed on a $1.62 million FHA-insured HUD first mortgage loan for Villa Vianney Apartments. Located in Sherman, the age-restricted senior housing property offers 54 units. According to Cambridge, the fully-amortized, 30-year loan refinanced 18 buildings at the property. Cambridge Realty Capital Ltd. of Illinois, the Cambridge business that underwrites insured loans, used HUD's Section 207 pursuant to HUD Section 223(f) program. The borrower was the property owner, an Illinois-based not-for-profit corporation.
LEESBURG, VA. — Leesburg-based Morningside House Senior Living has partnered with Harrison Street Real Estate Capital of Chicago to form a $200 million joint venture agreement. The partnership will result in the immediate recapitalization of six well-positioned and stabilized assisted-living and memory-care facilities in the Mid-Atlantic region. The initial transaction was the recapitalization of a 480-unit senior housing portfolio. The properties include Morningside House of Eilicott City in Ellicot City, Md.; Morningside House of Friendship in Hanover, Md.; Morningside House of Laurel in Laurel, Md.; Morningside House of Satyr Hill in Parkville, Md.; Morningside House of St. Charles in Waldorf, Md.; and Morningside House of Leesburg in Leesburg, Va. The partnership will focus on acquiring, repositioning, redeveloping and operating assisted-living and memory-care properties in the Mid-Atlantic region.
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLA. — Krone Weidler of Marcus & Millichap's Tampa, Fla., office has brokered the sale of Emeritus at Altamonte Springs, an assisted-living and Alzheimer's community located at 433 Orange Ave. in Altamonte Springs. The 62,981-square-foot facility sold for $3.2 million. Weidler represented both the seller, an undisclosed Seattle-based company, and the buyer, an undisclosed Maryland-based company, in the transaction.