Seniors Housing

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NEW YORK CITY — Maplewood Senior Living and Omega Healthcare Investors Inc. have opened Inspīr Carnegie Hill, a high-rise senior living community in Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood. Inspīr Carnegie Hill rises 23 stories at 1802 Second Ave. The property features 215 units of assisted living and memory care with a range of studio to two-bedroom options and over 50,000 square feet of amenity spaces. Community amenities include a salon, an open-air SkyPark, a lounge, library, fitness center, heated saltwater pool, screening room, two fine dining options with meals included, a 24-hour attended lobby, concierge, Mercedes-Maybach house car available daily and limousine service available upon request. Additionally, the community will offer residents Stage Access, an on-demand streaming platform that delivers performing arts content directly to residents via television or virtual reality. The seniors housing community also has a partnership with The Actors Fund, which integrates entertainment and arts professionals into the rhythm of each day through dance, music, storytelling and acting. Claire Davenport has joined the property’s integrated care team as house geriatrician through a collaboration with the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which was recently ranked the No. …

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VALHALLA, N.Y. — HJ Sims has placed $30 million in financing for The Bethel Methodist Home and its continuing care retirement community, The Knolls, in Valhalla, approximately 25 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. The community, which opened in 2002 under the name Westchester Meadows, offers independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing services on one campus.

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DAVENPORT AND MARION, IOWA — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a $17 million HUD-insured loan for the refinancing of two assisted living properties in Iowa. Bickford Senior Living was the borrower. The single-story communities, Bickford of Davenport and Bickford of Marion, were both built in 1998. The Davenport facility consists of 42 beds, 35 for assisted living and seven for memory care. The Marion property comprises 38 beds, 31 for assisted living and seven for memory care. John Randolph and Grant Saunders of KeyBank structured the 232/223(f) loan, which features a fixed rate and is fully amortized over 35 years.

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The Virginian

FAIRFAX, VA. — The Virginian Retirement Community, a senior living community in Fairfax, will break ground on an 18-month renovation schedule. Development costs are estimated at $56.5 million. The Virginian project is a collaboration between Focus Healthcare Partners LLC, Life Care Services and Allied Partners. The Virginian Retirement Community will be located at 9229 Arlington Blvd., about 17 miles from Washington, D.C. The seven-story, 367,000-square-foot building will include four wings featuring 155 independent living apartments, 56 assisted living units and 38 memory care residences. The property is located on a 32-acre wooded campus near downtown Fairfax, and was acquired by an affiliate of Focus Healthcare Partners LLC in 2019. The Virginian will offer a fitness center with trainers, as well as daily exercise classes including aerobics, Tai Chi, balance and strength training and yoga. Other activities include a high-tech Golf Simulator, new indoor swimming pool with water aerobics classes and a water exercise program. The property will also include a new theater, virtual entertainment room, tech lounge, three full-service salons and four restaurants.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — CareTrust REIT Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRE) has acquired Buena Vista Care Center, a 150-bed skilled nursing facility in the Southern California community of Santa Barbara. California-based Covenant Care Inc. will continue to operate the property under a long-term lease that CareTrust assumed in the off-market transaction. It represents the eighth property that CareTrust owns and Covenant operates. CareTrust’s total investment was approximately $15.9 million, inclusive of transaction costs. The acquisition was funded using CareTrust’s $600 million unsecured revolving credit facility. Covenant Care has approximately four years left on its existing lease term, with two five-year renewal options. The lease currently carries approximately $1.5 million in annual cash rent with 3 percent annual escalators.

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Pembroke Senior Living

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — Pembroke Realty Group and Beth Sholom Village will build a seven-story senior living community in Virginia Beach known as the Senior Living Project at Pembroke. Kahler Slater Architects designed the community with CJMW Architecture in charge of programming. The community is scheduled to open in 2023. The Senior Living Project at Pembroke will have 124 independent living residences, 20 assisted living apartments and 12 memory support units. Community amenities will include entertaining spaces, a rooftop terrace, indoor pool, fitness room and Wi-Fi throughout. The property will also feature a pet-friendly environment, beautician services, health and wellness classes, chef-prepared meals with flexible dining options and professional housekeeping services. The senior living community will be located at the corner of Jeanne Street and Constitution Drive. Beth Sholom Village first opened in 1980 and has grown from a 120-bed skilled nursing facility to a campus that includes The Terrace Assisted Living. The growth continued with various services, including rehabilitation, transportation, skilled home health and hospice care.

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LOS ANGELES — USA Properties Fund Inc. has started construction of Vintage at Woodman, a 239-unit affordable seniors housing community in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles. Units will be restricted to residents at least 55 years old that meet a range of income limits, via the California Housing Finance Agency’s Mixed-Income Program. Vintage at Woodman is the first USA Properties project to use the Mixed-Income Program. With the Mixed-Income Program, renters earning 50 percent to 80 percent of the area median income — about $45,000 to $72,000 for a two-person household leasing a one-bedroom apartment — could qualify for Vintage at Woodman. “Vintage at Woodman is an example of the type of development that is key to addressing the housing crisis facing Los Angeles County and the entire state,” says Tia Boatman Patterson, executive director of the California Housing Finance Agency (CalFHA). CalHFA issued tax-exempt bonds and provided subsidy funds through its Mixed-Income Program for the project. “The mix of incomes in this project allows local residents to improve their financial and housing situations while staying at home in their community,” adds Patterson. The five-story apartment community, featuring one- and two-bedroom units, is scheduled for completion in spring …

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The impacts of COVID-19 on the U.S. multifamily market vary significantly across metro areas. Not surprisingly, the nation’s denser gateway markets have been hardest hit, while secondary and tertiary markets have fared better. In a reversal of pre-pandemic trends, suburban locations have gained favor over urban submarkets from both renters and investors. As many employees continue to work from home, larger and more affordable units in suburban submarkets have become more appealing. Elevated construction costs are also a factor, driving garden-style development versus more costly podium construction. The Triangle’s suburban submarkets are experiencing the strongest construction activity, most notably in the North Cary/Morrisville submarket, where 1,784 units averaging over 1,000 square feet per unit are currently underway. As ongoing work-from-home arrangements prompt more tenants to consider living further from the Triangle’s primary employment centers, developers are increasingly willing to look at sites in outlying communities such as Wendell and Clayton. Demand is expected to return to the Triangle’s urban submarkets as employees return to the office and retailers and restaurants fully reopen, but the recovery in these areas is likely to be protracted. Solid footing The Triangle’s multifamily sector ended 2020 on relatively firm footing despite a tumultuous year. Both …

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AUBURN, MASS. — Pennrose and the Town of Auburn, located just south of Worcester, have broken ground on the historic rehabilitation of the Julia Bancroft School, a 60-unit, mixed-income development for seniors age 62 and older. Plans for the redevelopment include renovating the original 1920s school building, demolishing the later-built addition and replacing it with a new, four-story building. The project is slated for completion in summer 2022. The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development provided 9 percent federal low-income housing tax credits for the project.

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CAMARILLO, CARLSBAD, RANCHO MIRAGE AND SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIF. — CareTrust REIT Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRE) has purchased four continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) in the upscale Southern California submarkets of Camarillo, Carlsbad, Rancho Mirage and San Juan Capistrano. The campuses, which hotelier Marriott International Inc. originally developed between 1999 and 2000, total 637 assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care beds. CareTrust’s initial investment in the four rental CCRCs, inclusive of capital expenditure commitments and transaction costs, was approximately $126.1 million. Bayshire Senior Communities, an existing CareTrust tenant based in San Diego, will lease and operate the Rancho Mirage and Carlsbad campuses under an amendment to Bayshire’s existing master lease. Aspen Skilled Healthcare, based in Laguna Niguel, will lease and operate the San Juan Capistrano and Camarillo campuses under a new 15-year master lease with CareTrust. Aggregate annual cash rent for the first year is approximately $8.6 million, increasing to $9.4 million in the second year with CPI-based annual escalators thereafter. The acquisition was funded using CareTrust’s $600 million unsecured revolving credit facility. Evans Senior Investment represented the seller, an institutional owner, in the transaction.

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