BREWSTER, MASS. — Private equity firm Elevation Financial Group has purchased Wingate Residences at Brewster Place, a 121,000-square-foot seniors housing property in Brewster, located on Cape Cod. The sales price was $4 million. The property was originally built in 1973, expanded in 1995 and offered skilled nursing and assisted living services before it closed in 2019. Elevation will reposition the site to serve as an independent living community with affordable housing for adults age 55 and above that will be rebranded as Serenity Apartments at Brewster. The seller was not disclosed.
RIDLEY TOWNSHIP, PA. — A partnership between Pennrose, the Delaware County Housing Authority, the County of Delaware and the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency has closed on financing for the final phase of the Kinder Park redevelopment in Ridley Township. The project will add 96 units of affordable seniors housing to the Kinder Park site, located near Philadelphia International Airport. The site already features 160 existing affordable apartments for seniors and individuals with disabilities, 154 townhomes, a community building and several parks. This phase is slated for completion in spring 2022.
SAGINAW, TEXAS — A partnership between management firm SilverPoint Senior Living and developer Journey Capital has begun construction on Edition Senior Living, a 93-unit community in Saginaw, a northern suburb of Fort Worth. The 6.1-acre property will consist of 22 independent living cottages, 54 assisted living units and 19 memory care residences. Residents will have access to resort-quality amenities, chef-prepared meals and concierge-style services. A tentative completion date was not disclosed.
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — A partnership between Houston-based Buckhead Investment Partners and Zane Segal Projects has broken ground on Arista Riverstone, a 142-unit active adult community that will be located in the southwestern Houston suburb of Sugar Land. The four-story building will border a lake and connect to the walking trails within the Riverstone master-planned development. Additional amenities will include a fitness and wellness center, a pool, multiple game rooms and lounges, conference and craft rooms, multiple dog parks, a hair and nail salon and climate-controlled storage units. San Antonio-based Gonzalez Newell Bender Architects is designing the project. Galaxy Builders Ltd., also based in San Antonio, is the general contractor, and Greystar is the leasing agent. Move-ins are slated to begin in early May, with full completion scheduled for fall 2021.
DEER PARK, TEXAS — Capital Senior Living Corp. (NYSE: CSU) has completed the operational transfer of its independent living community in the Houston suburb of Deer Park to Fannie Mae, the holder of the community’s nonrecourse debt. The Deer Park community is the first of 18 properties the company will transition to Fannie Mae under a cooperative process initiated in August 2020. A Dallas-based operator, CSU plans to enhance liquidity and improve operating cash flow by eliminating underperforming operations and focusing on its core owned and managed portfolio. CSU expects all 18 of the community transitions to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2021, which the company estimates will reduce its debt load by $217.7 million and improve annual cash flow by $10 million. The Deer Park transfer alone will extinguish $19.4 million in debt for CSU.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — A partnership between California-based Imprint Property Group and Atlanta-based Batson-Cook Development Co. has broken ground on Larkspur at Creekside, an active adult community in the San Antonio suburb of New Braunfels. The project is being developed within New Braunfels Town Center at Creekside, a 400-acre master-planned community, and will consist of 152 units and 32 cottages for adults age 55 and over. HEDK Architects is the architect for the project, and Godfrey Construction Co. is the general contractor. Completion is scheduled for early 2022.
MANCHESTER, BEDFORD AND NASHUA, N.H. — Greystone has provided $23.8 million in HUD-insured loans to refinance a trio of assisted living facilities in New Hampshire. The communities include Courville at Manchester in Manchester, Courville at Carlyle Place in Bedford and Courville Nashua & Aynsley in Nashua. Lisa Fischman of Greystone originated the interest rate reduction (IRR) transaction. The IRR reduces the interest rate on an existing HUD-insured loan, maintaining the existing maturity and loan amount. The borrower and owner was The Courville Company.
PARK CITY, UTAH — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has brokered the sale of an undisclosed assisted living and memory care community in Park City, approximately 35 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. The community was built in 1999 and features 32 units of assisted living and 10 units of memory care. The Pacific Northwest-based owner sought to divest the asset as a geographical outlier in its portfolio. A local owner-operator bought the property for an undisclosed price, taking on the existing HUD loan as part of the deal.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIF. — JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage has arranged the sale of a seniors housing community featuring 64 skilled nursing beds and 49 assisted living beds in Riverside County, located east of Los Angeles. The facility was in escrow when COVID-19 hit with a first-time buyer that decided not to proceed. The seller, a family-owned owner-operator, eventually sold the property to a first-time buyer. The sales price was $5.4 million, or $84,375 per bed at a 9 percent capitalization rate. JCH also assisted the buyer in setting up a lease with a local assisted living operator looking to expand in the area.
RICHMOND, VA. — Enterprise Community Development (ECD) has completed construction of The Rosa, an affordable seniors housing community in Richmond’s historic Jackson Ward neighborhood. Partners on the project include the City of Richmond, the Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority, Virginia Housing (formerly VHDA), the Federal Home Loan Bank, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Truist Financial Corp., Enterprise Housing Credit Investments and the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. Grimm + Parker served as the project architect, while Harkins Builders was the general contractor. The four-story building features 82 mixed-income apartments, including 36 affordable units designated for workforce housing. The Rosa is named after the former school on the site. Although primarily new construction, the project included the adaptive reuse of a historic convent into eight of the multifamily units, as well as the preservation of a garden established by the Catholic Diocese to commemorate the former site of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, believed to be the first Catholic congregation for African-Americans in the South. The complex also features 6,000 square feet of retail space. All residents of The Rosa previously lived in Fay Towers, a 200-unit senior community built in 1976. The ribbon cutting of …