WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINN. — CareTrust REIT Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRE) has acquired Memory Care Cottages in White Bear Lake, a 30-unit, high-acuity memory care community in the Minneapolis suburb of White Bear Lake. The purchase price was approximately $7.8 million, inclusive of transaction costs. The deal is structured as a sale-leaseback with the operator, Prelude Homes & Services, which originally developed the property. CareTrust and Prelude have an existing relationship, and the property was added to the master lease arrangement between the two companies. CareTrust expects the property to generate an additional annual cash rent of approximately $640,000, resulting in an initial cash yield of 8.2 percent. The amended master lease has a remaining initial term of approximately 12.5 years, with two five-year renewal options and Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based rent escalators. CareTrust REIT, a California-based, publicly traded healthcare REIT, funded the acquisition with cash on hand.
Seniors Housing
CHARLES, MO. — St. Louis-based contractor Wiegmann Associates has completed the installation of the HVAC system at Cedarhurst of St. Charles, a new $17.5 million seniors housing community in the St. Louis metro of St. Charles. The 99,000-square-foot property features 76 assisted living units and 24 memory care units. Vermont-based Dover Development LLC developed the property, and Illinois-based IMPACT Strategies Inc. served as construction manager. The community officially opened June 25. Cedarhurst Living LLC will operate the facility.
CLEMSON, S.C. — Dominion Senior Living has broken ground on Dominion Senior Living at Patrick Square, a $10 million, 50,000-square-foot seniors housing community located at 100 Pershing Ave. in Clemson. The two-story, faith-based community will have 40 assisted living apartments and 17 apartments designed for memory care. Dominion Senior Living at Patrick Square is slated to open in fall 2018, bringing roughly 50 new jobs to the Clemson area. The property is Dominion’s second asset in South Carolina.
Capital One Provides $77.7M Refinancing for Nine-Property Pacifica Seniors Housing Portfolio
by Nellie Day
SAN DIEGO — Capital One has provided a $77.7 million loan to refinance a portfolio of nine seniors housing facilities in Arizona, California, Florida, Oregon and Utah. The mortgage consists of $67.7 million in initial funding and an earn-out as specific conditions are met. The borrower is Pacifica Cos., a San Diego-based real estate developer, owner, investor and investment management with properties in office, industrial, retail, net-leased single-tenant, multifamily, residential, seniors housing and hospitality, as well as land for development. Its seniors housing division is named Pacifica Senior Living. The specific names of the properties were not disclosed. Specializing in assisted living and memory care, Pacifica Senior Living manages dozens of communities in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
Capital One Closes $12M HUD Refinancing for 128-Bed Skilled Nursing Facility Near Portland
by Nellie Day
GRESHAM, ORE. — Capital One has provided a $12 million fixed-rate HUD 232/223(f) loan to refinance Regency Gresham, a 128-bed skilled nursing facility in the Portland suburb of Gresham. Regency Gresham was built in 1960 and expanded in 1976. The owners recently converted four-person rooms and semi-private rooms to private ones. The sponsors will use proceeds of the loan to extend their renovation program to other areas of the facility, modernize the building’s infrastructure, improve common area appearance, and enable additional therapy services. Joshua Rosen originated the transaction.
CUTLER BAY, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $30 million sale of Cabana Club, a 332-unit, Section 42 Low Income Housing Tax Credit community for seniors in Cutler Bay, roughly 20 miles south of Miami. The independent living community features a pool, fitness center and a clubhouse. Evan Kristol and Felipe Echarte of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a New York-based investment group, and procured the undisclosed buyer.
The high-profile cities that line both coasts aren’t the only places where the development of new seniors housing product is proving to be a smart investment. Less populated areas are also welcoming new communities that are designed and operated just like those facilities opening in popular urban markets. But seizing opportunities in smaller markets is a different ballgame than it is in high-density areas. A smaller list of prospects and a shorter supply of qualified talent are among the drawbacks. Still, many owners find that the pros outweigh the cons. They cite pent-up demand for newer, more modern product, lower land costs, quicker permitting and faster lease-ups among the perks of a small market. And these less populous areas are gaining in popularity among many investors. The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) tracks 31 markets that make up the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. It also tracks 68 secondary markets. NIC defines a secondary market the same way the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) does. The OMB divides smaller economic areas into core-based statistical areas (CBSAs), each of which consists of a county or counties that share an urbanized area of at …
Greystone Provides $78.4M HUD Loan for 510-Bed Skilled Nursing Facility in New York City
by Amy Works
NEW YORK CITY — Greystone has provided a $78.4 million HUD-insured permanent loan to refinance Boro Park Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation in Brooklyn. Fred Levine of Greystone originated the financing for the borrower, Centers Health Care. The borrowers have invested more than $20 million in renovations to the property, which it acquired more than five years ago. Boro Park Center features a variety of clinical services, including amputee recovery and training; cardiac therapy; comfort care and palliative care; dental services; isolation rooms; occupational therapy; oxygen management; peripherally inserted central catheter management; physical therapy; pleurx management; post-surgical orthopedic care; respiratory management; speech therapy; stroke rehabilitation; and tracheostomy care.
MARGATE, N.J. — Sims Mortgage Funding, a subsidiary of HJ Sims, has arranged a $6.4 million HUD loan for Margate Terrace, an affordable seniors housing community in Margate, a beach community near Atlantic City. The financing will provide cash for improvements and reserves. Margate Terrace Corp., which owns the property, can now preserve the Section 8 designation on the property. Community Realty Management is the operator. Margate Terrace Apartments was developed in the early 1990s under the HUD Section 202 Direct Loan Program. Its primary source of income is a Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Contract, which has a remaining term of approximately 16 years. The Section 8 subsidy is sufficient to fund operations and debt service obligations, but the project had growing capital needs that could not be financed from operations and current reserve balances. The project benefited from a PILOT (Pilot in Lieu of Taxes) and ground lease agreements from the City of Margate. The existing agreements did not meet HUD’s current loan program requirements and needed to be amended to recapitalize the project. Approximately $1.4 million in loan proceeds are escrowed for capital repairs, $350,000 was deposited into a replacement reserve fund and a 15 percent …
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — Summit Healthcare REIT Inc. has acquired Pennington Gardens, a 90-bed assisted living and memory care facility in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler for $13.4 million. Summit will lease the property to Compass Senior Living, which already operates six communities in Summit’s portfolio. The acquisition was made through Summit Chandler LLC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Summit. Summit is a non-traded REIT with 32 long-term, triple-net-leased healthcare facilities in 12 states.