JERICHO, N.Y. — Jericho-based developer Engel Burman has opened Encore Luxury Living, a 102-unit seniors housing community in the Long Island hamlet of Jericho. The 160,000-square-foot property offers active adult living with 59 one-bedroom units, 42 two-bedroom units and one three-bedroom unit. Unit sizes range from 826 to 1,500 square feet, and rents start at $8,400 per month. Encore will share a campus with Engel Burman’s existing 200,000-square-foot assisted living community, The Bristal at Jericho.
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WYNDMOOR, PA. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of Wyndmoor Hills, a 180-unit rental continuing care retirement community (CCRC). The community is located on 12 acres in Wyndmoor, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. The building totals 214,288 square feet. A regional buyer acquired the property for an undisclosed price with plans to reposition it. Steve Thomes, Michael Segal and Dan Mahoney of Blueprint were the lead advisors on the transaction.
OREC Securities Brokers Sale of Pleasant Bay Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Cape Cod
by Alex Patton
BREWSTER, MASS. — OREC Securities has brokered the sale of Pleasant Bay Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the Cape Cod town of Brewster. The community houses 135 skilled nursing beds and 59 assisted living units. Although the original plan was to split the community into two separate sales, a regional owner-operator bought the properties as a single asset. Laca Wong-Hammond, Chad Elliott, Kevin Laidlaw and Aaron Becker led the transaction for OREC. The seller and price were not disclosed.
Aging-in-Place Technology Has Its Limits, Says a Reassuring InterFace Seniors Housing Panel
by Jeff Shaw
PHILADELPHIA — Will today’s emerging aging-in-place technologies, designed to help the elderly remain in their own home for a longer period of time, lead to significantly reduced demand for seniors housing? The question was a hot topic at the InterFace Seniors Housing Northeast conference last Thursday in Philadelphia following a recent front-page article in The Wall Street Journal under the following headline: “Boomers Want to Stay Home. Senior Housing Now Faces Budding Glut.” The piece argues that aging-in-place technology poses a challenge to builders of senior living communities, particularly at a time when developers are adding new supply at a healthy clip and occupancy rates remain relatively stagnant. Nationwide, the occupancy rate for seniors housing (assisted living and independent living combined) was 88 percent in the third quarter of 2019, up 30 basis points from the prior quarter, but down from 90.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) based in Annapolis, Maryland. Seniors housing developers added 21,332 units in 2018, more than double the number added in 2014, The Journal reported based on NIC data. Venture capitalists and other companies are expected to invest about $1 billion this year …
POWAY, CALIF. — Owner-operator Cadence Living and Sabra Health Care REIT have acquired Sunshine Care, a 32-acre seniors housing community in Poway, a suburb of San Diego. Now named Cadence at Poway Gardens, the property is situated near the Palomar Hospital. The community is known for its horticultural therapy program that grows more than 20,000 pounds of organic fruits and vegetables every year. “To be able to produce an in-house farm-to-table experience as an activity that brings staff, families and their loved ones together sets Cadence at Poway Gardens apart from other assisted living and memory care communities,” says Rob Leinbach, a principal with Cadence. “We look forward to the community’s partnership with Backyard Produce that provides excess food grown by our residents to those in the Poway community in need.” Cadence Living currently owns, operates and/or is developing communities throughout the South and West.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — The Masonic Hall and Asylum Fund, a seniors housing owner-operator, has acquired the former College of New Rochelle campus just north of The Bronx for $32 million, according to reports from The Journal News. The college declared bankruptcy in September, and sister school Mercy College absorbed all the students, faculty and programs. Although specific plans for the future of the property were not disclosed, Masonic Hall and Asylum Fund operates Masonic Care Community, a seniors housing community in Utica.
Meridian Capital Group Arranges $60M Refinancing of National Seniors Housing Portfolio
by Alex Patton
NEW YORK CITY — New York-based Meridian Capital Group has arranged a $60 million loan to refinance two portfolios of memory care assets across Ohio, Georgia, South Carolina, Colorado, California and Tennessee. In the first transaction, Meridian arranged $27.5 million for four memory care facilities totaling 264 beds in Ohio and Georgia. The five-year loan features a fixed interest rate and limited personal guarantees. In the second transaction, the Meridian team arranged a $32.5 million loan for memory care facilities totaling 264 beds in South Carolina, Colorado, California and Tennessee. A balance sheet lender provided the five-year, non-recourse loan with a fixed rate. Further details on the properties, locations and borrowers were not disclosed. Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson of Meridian negotiated the two transactions.
HALLOWELL, MAINE — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has arranged the sale of Granite Hill Estates, a continuing care retirement community in Hallowell, a southern suburb of Augusta. Granite Hill Estates features 46 independent living cottages, 60 independent living apartments and 24 assisted living/memory care units. The independent living portion was built in 2000 and assisted living was added in 2006. MaineGeneral Health sold the property to a regional owner-operator for an undisclosed price. Toby Siefert and Bradley Clousing of SLIB handled the transaction.
DALLAS — Buckner Senior Living has opened Ventana by Buckner, a 301-unit seniors housing community in North Dallas. Development costs were estimated at $140 million. The project, designed by D2 Architecture, features two 12-story towers that house 189 independent living residences, 38 assisted living residences, 48 nursing apartments and 26 memory care residences. Buckner is collaborating with Baylor Scott & White Health for medical and spiritual care services, Stephan Pyles for culinary services, Cooper Aerobics for health and wellness and Southern Methodist University for continuing education. Apartments range from 950 to 2,000 square feet.
CHICAGO — The NHP Foundation, in partnership with Low Income Investment Fund, has acquired Edwin C. Berry Manor Apartments, an affordable seniors housing community in Chicago. The purchase price was undisclosed. NHP plans to preserve and maintain the 57-unit property, which was built in 1991. The property is in the Woodlawn neighborhood, which features many new developments including the future Barack Obama Presidential Library. Operation Pathways, the resident services affiliate of NHP, will provide onsite services.