LODI, CALIF. — The Wolff Company has broken ground on Revel Lodi, a 142-unit independent living community in Lodi, located south of Sacramento and east of San Francisco. The project is located within the Reynolds Ranch master-planned community in California’s wine country. The property is scheduled for completion in mid-2018. Once completed, the two four-story buildings will offer 134 apartments and eight single-story cottages in a variety of studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Revel Lodi will be the fourth senior living community Wolff has developed since 2016. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based private equity firm intends to invest between $300 million and $400 million annually in the development of independent and assisted living communities, in addition to purchasing existing communities.
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FREDERICK, MD. — HHHunt has broken ground on Spring Arbor of Frederick, a 109-bed assisted living and memory care community in Frederick, approximately 50 miles west of Baltimore. Development costs for the project are estimated at $32.3 million. When completed, the 110,000-square-foot community will sit on a 10-acre site along the Monocacy River and near the Monocacy National Battlefield. The community will be HHHunt’s third in Maryland and is scheduled for completion in early 2019. SunTrust Bank provided a $50 million credit facility for the project. Blacksburg, Va.-based HHHunt is a real estate developer and owner with a portfolio of 24 Spring Arbor-branded seniors housing communities in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.
PHOENIX — Bethel Development has selected Rainbow Housing Assistance Corp. to provide services for The Revello, a 76-unit senior living complex in Phoenix. The project is currently under construction, with a planned completion in 2019. The Revello is funded by low income housing tax credits (LIHTC) allocated by the Arizona Department of Housing in 2017. This will be the fourth property Rainbow will operate for Bethel, and the second seniors housing community. The Revello is owned by Revello Housing LLC and will comprise one four-story building totaling approximately 81,000 square feet. The 76 units will include one- and two-bedroom units designed for the elderly. Rainbow will provide programming for seniors at the property such as computer training, financial literacy workshops, health promotion and disease prevention.
LEBANON, N.H. — Dartmouth-Hitchcock and E4H Environments for Health Architecture have opened the new Jack Byrne Center for Palliative & Hospice Care, a 30,000-square-foot skilled nursing and hospice facility. The property is located within the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center campus in Lebanon, located near the Vermont border. The new facility features 12 single-occupancy patient rooms that offer a home-like setting. The Jack Byrne Center will also serve as an educational and training center for end-of-life caregivers throughout New England. The resource program was developed and will be administered by Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Palliative Care Program in collaboration with hospice and community partners. Construction of the facility by PC Construction began in June 2016. Led by a $10 million commitment from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation in 2014, philanthropic support covered 75 percent of the center’s construction cost.
MorningStar, Confluent Begin Construction of 85-Unit Seniors Housing Community in Santa Fe
by Nellie Day
SANTA FE, N.M. — Co-developers MorningStar Senior Living and Confluent Senior Living have broken ground on MorningStar of Santa Fe, an assisted living and memory care community in Santa Fe. The 71,000-square-foot property will feature 56 assisted living suites and 29 memory care suites. The community will be located on four acres within a mixed-use development known as the St. Francis Drive Corridor. The project represents the 10th joint venture between Denver-based developer, owner and operator MorningStar and Denver-based investment and development firm Confluent. Confluent will own the finished community, which MorningStar will operate. Rosemann & Associates is serving as the architect for the new development and New Mexico-based Bradbury Stamm Construction is the general contractor. MonrningStar of Santa Fe is scheduled for completion in fall 2018.
Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV Acquires Nine-Property Seniors Housing Portfolio in Central Florida for $110M
by Katie Sloan
TAMPA AND ORLANDO, FLA. — Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV Inc., co-sponsored by American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Co. LLC, has acquired a nine-property seniors housing portfolio totaling 1,140 units in Central Florida. The properties are located in cities throughout greater Tampa and Orlando. Acquisitions include Spring Haven Retirement in Winter Haven; Lake Morton Plaza in Lakeland; Renaissance Retirement in Sanford; Forest Oaks in Spring Hill; Bayside Terrace in Pinellas Park; Balmoral Assisted Living in Lake Placid; Bradenton Oaks in Bradenton; and The Grande and Spring Oaks, both located in Brooksville. The portfolio contains 814,000 square feet of assisted living, independent living and memory care space and has an aggregate occupancy rate of approximately 84 percent. The properties have undergone renovations by the former owner, New Senior Investment Group, over the course of the last three years. The acquisition was completed via a joint venture with an affiliate of Meridian Senior Living LLC, which will manage the portfolio on a day-to-day basis. Griffin-American Healthcare owns approximately 98 percent of the joint venture. “The addition of the Central Florida seniors housing portfolio provides the REIT with a significant footprint in Florida amidst a large and aging population that is increasingly likely to transition to senior …
YONKERS, N.Y. — Greystone has provided a $24.9 million HUD-insured permanent loan to refinance Adira at Riverside Rehabilitation & Nursing, a skilled nursing facility in Yonkers. Fred Levine and Shia Fishman of Greystone arranged the financing for the borrower, L&A RE Acquisitions. The loan features a 30-year term and a fixed rate. Adira at Riverside offers a certified respiratory and vent unit; short-term rehab; occupational, physical and speech therapy; wound care; neuro-rehabilitation; certified cardiopulmonary rehabilitation; long-term skilled nursing care; dedicated Alzheimer’s and dementia care units; and stroke and TBI rehab. On-site amenities include a modern fitness facility, concierge and a variety of recreational activities for residents.
IRVINE, CALIF. — HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) has unveiled a plan to “significantly reduce” its concentration of Brookdale-operated seniors housing communities. The plan includes HCP selling six Brookdale properties for an estimated $275 million, as well as selling its remaining 40 percent stake in a joint venture to Columbia Pacific Advisors for $332 million. The joint venture — RIDEA II — owns 49 seniors housing properties, of which Brookdale operates 46. Irvine-based HCP is one of the “Big Three” seniors housing REITs. Headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., Brookdale is by far the largest owner and operator of seniors housing in the United States. Its operational portfolio includes 1,048 properties and 102,055 units, according to the American Seniors Housing Association, which is nearly triple the size of the next largest competitor. However, the company has struggled since its $2.8 billion acquisition of fellow seniors housing giant Emeritus in 2014. After initially experiencing a lift in the months following the merger, Brookdale’s stock price fell from $38.16 on March 2, 2015, to $11.80 on Feb. 8, 2016. The goal of HCP’s plan is to reduce its exposure to Brookdale-operated properties, increase its lease coverage of the Brookdale communities it will continue to own, …
FARMINGTON, N.M. — Welbrook Senior Living has started construction of its second transitional rehabilitation facility, located in Farmington in the northwest corner of New Mexico. Welbrook partnered with Embree Asset Group, a development company based in Texas, to build the 50-bed property. Welbrook expects to begin accepting patients in late 2018.
WASILLA, ALASKA — Boston Capital is investing an undisclosed sum in the construction of Vista Rose II Apartments, a 36-unit affordable community for seniors in Wasilla, approximately 40 miles northeast of Anchorage. Vista Rose II Apartments will be built with tax credit equity from the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. The developers are The Pacific Companies, based in Eagle, Idaho, and Deep Green Housing and Community Development, based in Los Angeles. Units will be available to residents aged 55 and over earning 60 percent or less of the Area Median Income (AMI). Twenty-eight units will be restricted to households with incomes at or below 50 percent of AMI, and two units restricted to households with income at or below 30 percent of AMI. The investment marks Boston Capital’s 32nd partnership with The Pacific Companies, and its first property in Alaska.