IOWA CITY, IOWA — A partnership between Grand Living and Ryan Cos. has unveiled plans to develop a 170-unit senior housing community in Iowa City. Grand Living in Iowa City will provide independent, assisted living and memory care services. The complex will offer a variety of floor plans ranging from studios to two-bedroom apartment homes. Construction on the community is scheduled to begin this fall. Amenities at Grand Living in Iowa City will include a variety of dining options, a salon, indoor pool, exercise studio, library, performance theater, chapel, activity and art studios, music practice rooms, pet grooming center and wood working shop.
RIALTO, CALIF. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the $14.1 million sale of Vista Cove Care Center, a 177-bed skilled nursing facility in Rialto, about 55 miles east of Los Angeles. A joint venture of a New York-based real estate group and a Los Angeles-based operator bought the property from a regional owner/operator. The purchase price equates to $79,858 per bed and a capitalization rate of 7.3 percent. Blueprint’s Christopher Hyldahl was the lead advisor and Mike Segal assisted in executing the transaction.
SEATTLE — Columbia Pacific Advisors is entering into a long-term ground lease with the Archdiocese of Seattle and St. James Cathedral to build a 237-unit, 24-story senior housing community in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood. The community, on a half block of Archdiocese-owned land at 620 Terry Ave., will offer independent living, assisted living and memory care. Columbia Pacific Advisors expects to start construction on the senior living project in 2017, and the project is scheduled to open in 2019. Columbia Pacific Advisors is a real estate investment firm based in Seattle.
PASADENA, CALIF. — JCH Senior Housing Group, a brokerage based in California, has arranged the sale of three skilled nursing facilities in Pasadena for $10.9 million. The properties were Pasadena Residential Care Center (136 beds), Castle View Retirement Estate (40 beds) and Garfield Care Center (60 beds). SYTR bought the portfolio out of bankruptcy from 1415 Garfield LLC, 1425 Garfield LLC and 1435 Garfield LLC. Shep Roylance led the JCH team on the transaction.
SEATTLE — Oxford Finance LLC, a Virginia-based specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies, has closed a $27 million term loan to Cascade Capital Group LLC. The funds were used to purchase three skilled nursing facilities in Colorado and Utah. The names of the facilities were not disclosed. Based in Seattle, Cascade Capital is a newly formed private equity firm that invests in long-term care facilities. It leases its facilities to Illinois-based Legacy Healthcare.
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — Kisco Senior Living has announced plans for a $16 million expansion to Emerald Court, a 194-unit independent living and assisted living community in the Los Angeles suburb of Anaheim. The expansion will add a two-story, 58-unit assisted living building as well as a new bistro, fitness center and several landscaped courtyards. In addition to the new construction, Kisco will renovate and expand the common areas and residences of the existing buildings. Kisco plans to break ground on the expansion in June of this year. Based in Carlsbad, Kisco Senior Living owns and operates 22 seniors housing communities in seven states, with a heavy concentration in California.
FARMINGTON AND HOWELL, MICH. — Capital Finance LLC, a subsidiary of Baltimore-based Capital Funding Group (CFG), has arranged a $7 million working capital line of credit for the operator of Farmington Health Care Center in Farmington and Howell Care Center in Howell. Both towns are northwest suburbs of Detroit. The two skilled nursing facilities, which were recently acquired, total 273 beds. The credit line provides the borrowers with additional commitment capacity while they work to obtain their new provider numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to CFG.
WEST ALLIS, WIS. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, a brokerage based in Chicago, has arranged the $6.5 million sale of Lamplight Inn of West Allis, a 118-unit assisted living community in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis. The seller was a private ownership group looking to divest non-core assets. The buyer is a publicly traded REIT, which will continue leasing the property to the current operator. None of the specific companies involved in the transaction were disclosed. The purchase price equates to approximately $55,000 per unit. Ben Firestone and Jacob Gehl led the Blueprint team, supported by Mike Segal and Mario Wilson.
TACOMA, WASH. — Franke Tobey Jones, a 20-acre, 90-year-old, nonprofit continuing care retirement community in the Point Defiance neighborhood of Tacoma, has announced a three-phase expansion. The community currently serves 190 residents with independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services. The nonprofit also operates the Point Defiance Ruston Senior Center, a Senior University Program and the M.J. Wicks Family Wellness center. Between its projects, Franke Tobey Jones provides continuing education, fitness classes and social events to residents and non-residents alike. Initial plans for the community’s expansion include three phases over the next five to eight years. Phase I will include a new health center, memory care community and independent living apartments featuring views of the Puget Sound. Phase II will include new independent living apartment building with an enhanced wellness center, auditorium, bistro, game room, lounge, business/computer room, library and rooftop deck. The building is meant for aging in place, allowing for assisted living services to be delivered without relocation. Phase III will include a renovation of the historic original building and another building on the campus. When all three phases are complete, Franke Tobey Jones will be able to house over 280 seniors with a full spectrum …
PHOENIX — Mainstreet, a seniors housing developer based in Indiana, has purchased 3.65 acres in Algodon Medical Office Park in West Phoenix for $1.7 million. The company is building a 94-bed rehabilitation and assisted living facility at the location. When completed, the community will comprise 67,697 square feet of space for short-stay rehabilitation and assisted living. Mainstreet expects to finish construction in February 2017. Novo Development, which developed Algodon Medical Office Park and sold the plot to Mainstreet, is currently building 42,000 square feet of new medical office buildings at the site, also due for delivery in 2017. Justin Miller and Kurt Rosene of Novo Development represented John F. Long Properties in the sale of the parcel to Mainstreet. Bob Neil and Sam Pollina with Realty Executives represented the buyer.