WASHINGTON AND OREGON — JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage has arranged the sale of four assisted living and memory care communities in Washington and Oregon. The existing operator matched the top offer of $16.5 million for the properties and will now take over ownership from the industry veterans selling the communities. The portfolio totals 152 units. The specific names and locations of the assets were not disclosed. Jim Hazzard and Nick Stahler were the lead advisors on the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) has agreed to sell Brookdale Battery Park, an independent living community in Manhattan, for $194 million. The buyer is Chicago-based REIT Ventas Inc. (NYSE: VTR), which expects the deal to close by year’s end. The sales price includes debt and translates to an exit capitalization rate of 5 percent for Brookdale. The 14-story property features 217 units overlooking the Hudson River and offers convenient access to areas such as Tribeca, SoHo and the Financial District. Amenities include a library, arts and crafts studio and a beauty/barber shop. “The Battery Park acquisition firmly establishes Ventas as the market leader in seniors housing in the elite Manhattan market,” says Debra A. Cafaro, chairman and CEO of Ventas. “Battery Park adds an irreplaceable, well-established community to our high-quality seniors housing portfolio and is uniquely positioned to benefit from New York City’s strong demographics.” HFF represented Brookdale, will continue to operate the property following the change in ownership, in the sale. Brookdale is the largest owner and operator of seniors housing communities in the United States, managing 988 communities in 46 states as of June 30. The company is undergoing a massive restructuring after …
CHICOPEE, MASS. — Fantini & Gorga has arranged a $20.5 million construction loan for Chicopee Assisted Living at RiverMills, an assisted living community in the Western Massachusetts city of Chicopee. Once completed in Spring 2019, the three-story, 80,000-square-foot community will include 95 units. The development will be located along the Chicopee River in the city’s historic RiverMills District. Approximately 20 percent of the units will offer memory care services. An additional 20 percent of the units will be reserved as affordable units. The fixed-rate, nonrecourse loan made at a loan-to-cost ratio of 85 percent is for a period of 15 years.
MILLBRAE, CALIF. — Cadence Living has acquired Marymount Greenhills Retirement Center, a 158-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the San Francisco suburb of Millbrae. Cadence plans to renovate the property over the next year and rename it Cadence Millbrae. The project will modernize the apartments, corridors and common areas. Greenhills Retirement Center is located adjacent to Greenhills Park and has views of San Francisco Bay. Cadence Living is a developer, owner and operator based in Scottsdale, Ariz. The company’s portfolio includes properties in California, Arizona and Colorado, with plans to further expand in the South and West.
PHILADELPHIA — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has brokered the sale of Fairview Care Center of Bethlehem Pike, a 176-bed skilled nursing facility in the Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia. The deal is a follow-up transaction to the recently announced “Lightning Portfolio,” where eight skilled nursing facilities in the Philadelphia metro traded hands. The seller sought to divest of the non-core assets, which featured a concentration of high-barrier-to-entry locations in the Philadelphia area. The buyer was a regional owner-operator looking for a growth opportunity. The price was not disclosed. Blueprint’s Ben Firestone, Christopher Hyldahl, Michael Segal and Gideon Orion handled the transaction.
EDMONDS, WASH. — Koelsch Communities has completed Cedar Creek Memory Care Community, a 60-unit memory care community in the Seattle suburb of Edmonds. Project costs were just over $17 million. Wells Fargo provided $13 million in financing, and the remainder came from private investors. Cedar Creek was designed with what Koelsch calls “historical surprises.” The community features several rooms designed to look like the 1950s, including a Julia Child-style kitchen, a garage featuring a classic car and a great room designed to look like the interior of a traditional log cabin. More than 50 percent of the rooms were reserved prior to the opening of Cedar Creek. Koelsch Communities operates 29 seniors housing properties in eight states, with nine new communities in development.
TUCSON, ARIZ., AND PAHRUMP, NEV. — CBRE has arranged the refinancing of The Echelon of Tucson in Tucson and Inspirations Senior Living in Pahrump. The portfolio totals 140 independent living units, 60 assisted living units and 12 memory care units. The borrower was CPF Living Communities. Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged the three-year, floating-rate loan with 36 months of interest-only payments. Grace Management, CPF Living’s management subsidiary, will continue to operate the properties. The amount of the loan was not disclosed. CPF Living acquired the communities in 2016, and projects that both properties will reach stabilization in 2019.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — The Wolff Co. has purchased Scottsdale Tennis Court, including 11 tennis courts and a pool, for $9 million. The buyer plans to redevelop the property into Revel Scottsdale, a 159-unit seniors housing community. The asset is situated on 5.5 acres on Inland Bend Road. Larry Kush of Orion Investment Real Estate represented the seller, Robert Hing, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — BMO Harris Healthcare Real Estate Finance and Wells Fargo Bank National Association have arranged a $200 million loan to support the redevelopment of the former Leverich Towers Hotel in Brooklyn into a seniors housing community. The companies acted as lead arrangers as bookrunners on the transaction, which refinances the acquisition and redevelopment loans. BMO acted as administrative agent and Wells Fargo partnered with Capital One to form the syndicate for the facility. The project will convert the building into a 314,000-square-foot, 273-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community. The borrowers are Kayne Anderson and Watermark Retirement Communities.
MINNEAPOLIS — Dougherty Funding LLC has provided a $58.1 million loan for the construction of Prospect Park Senior Living in Minneapolis. The 283-unit seniors housing property will be located in the Prospect Park neighborhood near the light rail transit station and the University of Minnesota campus. The project will include 130 independent living units, plus 98 assisted living and 54 memory care units and one guest suite. The 10-story building will feature an underground parking garage, child daycare services and one retail unit. Terms of the loan were not disclosed. Oppidan Investment Co. is the developer for the project, which is slated for completion in early 2020, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.