SOUTHFIELD, MICH. — Commercial Property Advisors has brokered the sale of Providence Place and Tower Apartments in Southfield for $23 million. The 576-unit property is located adjacent to St. John Providence Hospital-Southfield and encompasses approximately 729,000 net rentable square feet. An undisclosed Michigan-based real estate investment firm purchased the property and plans to upgrade the apartment units and common areas. Cary Belovicz of Commercial Property Advisors marketed the property on behalf of Parkstone Capital Partners LP.
NEW YORK CITY — Working with Enterprise Community Partners Inc. and LiveOn NY, Hellenic American Neighborhood Action Committee (HANAC) has broken ground for HANAC’s Corona Senior Residence, an affordable seniors housing building located at 54-17 101st St in the Corona section of Queens. Designed by think! Architecture and Design, the 68-unit property will feature 21 units reserved for vulnerable seniors and all units, except for the superintendent’s unit, will be income-restricted. Bruno Frustaci Contracting Inc. is constructing the building, which is slated for completion in spring 2018. The building will meet New York State Energy Research & Development Authority Multifamily Performance Standards for Energy Star certification and Enterprise Green Communities Criteria. Additionally, the property will be the first seniors housing development in the country to meet the Passive House Institute design standards.
DALLAS — Greysteel has arranged the sale and acquisition financing for Casas de Brookbend, a multifamily property located at 8360 Spring Valley Road in Dallas. Casas de Brookbend LLC was the seller, and Casa de Arroyo LLC was the buyer. Greysteel’s Boyan Radic, Doug Banerjee, Andrew Mueller, Ryan Hill and Andrew Hanson represented the seller and procured the buyer. The seven-year loan, provided by an agency lender using the Freddie Mac small balance loan program, features a fixed interest rate of 4.5 percent and two years of interest-only payments. Greysteel’s Anton Mattli and John Marshall Doss arranged the financing. Casas de Brookbend was built in 1968 and includes six two-story buildings totaling 50 units. Property amenities include an on-site laundry facility, on-site management office, pergola and picnic area.
EL PASO, TEXAS — Alden Capital Partners, in partnership with the Housing Authority of the City of El Paso (HACEP), has closed on $6 million in low-income housing tax credit equity financing for the rehabilitation of George W. Baines and Charles R. Morehead Apartments. The financing will be used to renovate 58 units at Baines and 62 units at Morehead for families and seniors. Baines and Morehead were built in 1982 and 1984. Rehabilitation for the properties is underway and is scheduled for completion by August 2017. Upgrades will include Energy Star appliances, central heating and air conditioning and outdoor picnic areas. Community amenities will include central laundry facilities, on-site management and a clubhouse. Units at both locations will be restricted to households at or below 60 percent of the area median income. Alden Capital Partners facilitated the investment of federal tax credit equity through its multi-investor fund, Alden Capital Partners Tax Credit Fund 20. Alden Capital Partners also provided equity bridge financing via the purchase of unsecured, tax-exempt Series B bonds. This allowed the transaction to take advantage of a Freddie Mac tax-exempt loan bond structure, which lowered the long-term financing costs.
SAN ANTONIO — FourPoint Multifamily Investments has brokered the sale of Windsor House Apartments in San Antonio. Built in 1996, Windsor House consists of 322 units enclosed in a gated community. The property is located near the intersection of Huebner and Vance Jackson roads in northwest San Antonio. Kevin Dufour of FourPoint represented the seller, Ed White & Associates, and procured the buyer, a joint venture between Presidium Group and PRIME Multifamily Investors. The new ownership plans to renovate the property over the next several years. Presidium will self-manage the property, while PRIME Multifamily will complete the planned renovations.
TOLEDO, OHIO — A joint venture between Cindat Capital Management Limited and Union Life Insurance has purchased a 75 percent interest in a Welltower-owned portfolio of seniors housing properties for $930 million. The acquisition represents Cindat’s first foray into U.S. health care real estate investment. The portfolio contains 11 seniors housing properties that are leased to Brookdale Senior Living, as well as 28 skilled nursing facilities leased to Genesis Healthcare. Welltower will retain 25 percent interest in the properties. The transaction is expected to close by year end and is subject to customary closing conditions. “With aging demographics and U.S. healthcare trends driving the need for innovative health care infrastructure, we believe the sector represents an attractive long-term investment opportunity,” says Greg Peng, CEO at Cindat Capital Management, representing Cindat and Union Life. “We have a significant appetite for investing in the sector and we look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship with Welltower to capitalize on this unique opportunity.” The agreement comes on the heels of Welltower’s third-quarter report, in which the company announced plans to significantly increase dispositions for 2016. The company initially planned to sell $1.3 billion of its assets, but announced it would like to sell …
IRVINE, CALIF. — Quality Care Properties, the spinoff of HCP’s ManorCare skilled nursing portfolio, has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol QCP WI. QCP is now a completely separate company from HCP (NYSE: HCP), one of the largest seniors housing REITs in the United States. QCP is also classified as a REIT following the spinoff. HCP common stockholders received one share of QCP common stock for every five shares of HCP common stock they held on October 24. Stockholders will receive cash in lieu of fractional shares of QCP. Barclays and Morgan Stanley were financial advisors to HCP, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP served as legal counsel.
OGDEN, UTAH — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of an undisclosed skilled nursing facility in Ogden for $7.5 million. A regional operator bought the 88-bed facility. Tony Cassie and Dan Mahoney of Marcus & Millichap represented both the buyer and seller in the transaction.
IRVINE, CALIF. — HCP has sold a portfolio of 64 properties leased to Brookdale Senior Living Inc. for $1.1 billion. Affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII L.P. bought the 5,967-unit portfolio, which equates to a $189,000-per-unit sale price. Occupancy for the portfolio was 85.2 percent at the time of sale. Proceeds from the sale will be used to pay down debt and general corporate purposes. In addition to selling the Brookdale properties, HCP plans to terminate leases on 25 Brookdale properties totaling 2,031 units over the next year. The moves are part of a strategy by HCP to reduce the saturation of Brookdale-operated properties within its portfolio. HCP also plans to transfer eight expiring Brookdale triple-net leases to a RIDEA structure, through a joint venture where Brookdale acquires 10 percent interest in the properties.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — Corporate Properties Trust I LP, a partnership between Transwestern Investment Group and Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., has closed on the acquisition of a 2.2 million-square-foot mixed-use project in a sale-leaseback with State Farm Auto Insurance Co. According to the Dallas Business Journal, the purchase price was $825 million. The partnership acquired the four primary office/retail towers and the connected structured parking garages. The campus is located within the CityLine development, a 186-acre project developed by KDC. The buildings are designated LEED Gold and are located adjacent to a DART rail line. Corporate Properties Trust I LP will own the properties through a REIT. The entity was created to allow long-term stable ownership of institutional properties. A wholly owned subsidiary of Transwestern Investment Group will manage the property. Located at 1150, 1201 and 1251 State St. and 3661 N. Plano Road, the buildings will house 8,000 State Farm employees. CityLine, which is located at the southeast corner of Highway 75 and the President George Bush Turnpike, will also include 1,700 apartments, a 150-room hotel, an entertainment center, medical office facility, retail, restaurants and a 3.5-acre park.