NEW YORK CITY — Harborview Capital Partners, a commercial real estate finance based in New York City, equity and advisory firm, has arranged a $51.9 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the acquisition of six skilled nursing facilities across California. The portfolio totals 678 beds, and the borrower is a national private investment group. Further details regarding the properties were not disclosed. The financing is a three-year bridge loan at 90 percent leverage. Harborview’s Jonathan Kutner and Eli Kutner originated the loan, which Robert Kellerman negotiated.
SAN FRANCISCO — A joint venture between Related Cos. and Atria Senior Living, along with funding support from Welltower, has acquired the former KRON-TV headquarters in San Francisco, with plans to convert the property to seniors housing. Onyx Partners sold the property for an undisclosed price. Located one block from the new Sutter California Pacific Van Ness Medical Center and along the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line now under construction, the community will be at the center of the city’s Cathedral Hill neighborhood. In April, the San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved the plans to transform the vacant building site into one of the city’s first modern senior living communities in over a decade. Groundbreaking is scheduled for late 2019, with a planned completion by the end of 2021. When completed, the building will total 13 stories and 270,000 square feet, including 7,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. The Related-Atria joint venture was announced in October 2018, with a $3 billion planned pipeline of new seniors housing development. At that time, San Francisco was specifically cited as a high-barrier-to-entry market the venture was interested in, along with New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington D.C. Welltower …
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Tutera Senior Living & Health Care is underway on a $1.5 million renovation of its senior living community in Overland Park known as The Atriums. This month, Tutera expects to complete Phase I of the project, which includes renovation of the first-floor common living areas. Tutera will also begin Phase II, an expected $1 million remodel of the property’s 203 units. Amenities within the 50,000-square-foot common living area include a dining area, pub, billiards room, reading corner and community lounges. The property features 168 independent living units and 35 assisted living units. The residences will be updated with new lighting, flooring, paint and other upscale finishes. Phase II is slated for completion in the next 12 to 18 months.
CHICAGO — Investors are still cautiously optimistic about the seniors housing market even after the sector experienced a slight dip in transaction volume in 2018, according to the results of JLL’s Spring 2019 Seniors Housing Survey. The Chicago-based commercial real estate services firm surveyed more than 1,000 specialists in the seniors housing and care space. The results point to generally positive sentiment around the market, and notes that while transaction volume reached just over $13 billion in 2018 (a decline over recent years), the total number of transactions was up 41 percent year-over-year. “There simply weren’t as many large deals with big price tags in 2018 in comparison to the preceding few years,” says Brian Chandler, managing director of JLL Valuation & Advisory Services. “Though there were fewer large transactions, single assets and small portfolios have remained liquid.” Communities that feature the full continuum of care except for skilled nursing remain the most favored product. Eighty-eight percent of survey respondents said these assets were “very” or extremely” desirable, a 2 percent jump over the last quarter’s survey. Freestanding nursing facilities remained the least favorite asset type, though only 41 percent of survey respondents said they were “not at all desirable,” …
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. — Skender has broken ground on Residences of Crystal Lake, an independent living community in Crystal Lake, approximately 45 miles northwest of Chicago. Turnstone Development is leading the project. The three-story, 63,000-square-foot facility will offer 60 affordable units for seniors, and includes 5 ADA-accessible units, 12 adaptable units and two sensory units. Other project partners include design firm UrbanWorks, civil engineering firm GroundWork Ltd. and owner’s representative DKI Inc. The community is scheduled for completion in March 2020.
FREMONT, CALIF. — Eden Housing has opened Pauline Weaver Senior Apartments, a 90-unit affordable housing community for seniors in Fremont, located at the southeast edge of San Francisco Bay. KTGY Architecture + Planning designed the project. The City of Fremont also partnered on the development. Formerly known as Mission Court, units are reserved for seniors earning between 30 and 50 percent of area median income. The community sits on a 2.25-acre site approximately one mile from the Warm Springs BART Station. “As the first piece of a greater age-qualified master plan, Pauline Weaver Senior Apartments sits across the street from a future senior center. This future amenity will not only enhance the lives of the residents living in this affordable community but also the future master plan,” says Jessica Musick, a principal in KTGY’s Oakland office. Pauline Weaver, the property’s namesake, is a longtime advocate for affordable housing in California. She has been on the Eden Housing Board of Directors since joining in 1988. Weaver was an assistant public defender in Alameda County and the past president of both the National Conference of Women’s Bar Association and California Women Lawyers. According to Eden Housing, the development has a unique financing …
PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has negotiated the sale of Heatherwilde Assisted Living, located in the Austin suburb of Pflugerville. A local partnership looking to exit the seniors housing industry sold the property to a Fort Worth-based owner-operator for an undisclosed price. Heatherwilde features 40 units on a 2.6-acre lot. The community is situated adjacent to Pflugerville Health Care Center and Pflugerville Middle School. Matthew Alley of SLIB arranged the sale as a value-add opportunity for the buyer.
URBANA, ILL. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of the Champaign County Nursing Home in Urbana for $11 million. The skilled nursing facility includes 243 beds. Joshua Jandris, Mark Myers and Matthew Andriano of IPA represented the seller, Champaign County. The team also procured the buyer, University Rehab Real Estate LLC.
VAN NUYS, THOUSAND OAKS AND LASALETTE, CALIF. — Senior Housing Properties Trust has sold three skilled nursing facilities in California as part of a previously announced restructuring plan. The 276-unit portfolio included undisclosed facilities in Van Nuys, LaSalette and Thousand Oaks. The transaction, which also included a 15,647-square-foot medical office building in Thornton, Colorado, totaled $24.1 million. The buyers were not disclosed. The sales were part of SNH’s disposition plan to sell up to $900 million of assets in connection with the restructuring of its business arrangements with Five Star Senior Living Inc. Based in Newton, Massachusetts, Senior Housing Properties Trust is a REIT that owns medical office buildings, senior living communities and wellness centers throughout the United States. SNH is managed by the operating subsidiary of The RMR Group Inc., an alternative asset management company.
SAYREVILLE, N.J. — AMS Acquisitions LLC, a New York City-based investment firm, has purchased a two-building, age-restricted housing community in Sayreville, located in northern New Jersey. AMS acquired the property from New Jersey-based development firm Gillette for $13 million. The property includes an 80-unit building, known as Gillette Towers, with one-bedroom floor plans reserved for persons age 55 or older. AMS will break ground on a 56-unit building later this spring. Amenities include a library/media room, outdoor gazebos and bocce and shuffleboard courts., and rents range from $1,400 to $1,550 per month. New York-based Castellan Real Estate Partners provided an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for the deal, with AMS using its own equity to complete the transaction.