BAYTOWN, TEXAS — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has secured a $21.3 million life insurance loan for Remington Park Baytown, an assisted living and memory care community located in Baytown. Monique Bimler of KeyBank’s Healthcare Mortgage Group arranged the 10-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of Capital Senior Living, which was used to acquire the property. Capital Senior Living Corp. is a operator of residential communities for senior adults. The company operates 115 senior living communities with an aggregate capacity of approximately 15,000 residents.
GEORGETOWN AND PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS — Granite Investment Group has sold two senior housing properties near Austin for $23.4 million. The sale included Park Place Care Center and Assisted Living, a senior care campus that includes a 116-bed skilled nursing facility and a 48-bed assisted living facility in Georgetown. Built in 1997 on nearly seven acres, Park Place offers 24-hour skilled nursing care, short- and long-term rehabilitation, common areas, private and semi-private rooms, activity directors, spiritual care and an order-by-menu dining program. An affiliate of Granite Investment Group originally purchased the property in 2007 for $9.2 million. The second property in the transaction is Pflugerville Care Center, an 111-bed skilled nursing facility built in 1991 on 3.2 acres. The facility provides residents with short- and long-term rehabilitation care. An affiliate of Granite Investment Group originally purchased the property in 2005 for $9.1 million. Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, brokered the transaction.
HIGH POINT, N.C. — Ziegler, a specialty investment bank, has arranged a $66.1 million bond issue for Maryfield Inc., a North Carolina not-for-profit that owns and operates Pennybyrn at Maryfield, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in High Point. Proceeds of the bonds will be used to pay off bonds from 2005 and 2010, fund a debt service reserve fund for the bonds and pay fees and expenses incurred by the sale of the new bonds. Located on 68 acres, Pennybyrn consists of 180 independent living units (131 apartments and 49 cottages); 48 assisted living units (24 standard care and 24 memory care); and 125 skilled nursing beds.
FORT MYERS, FLA. — Walker & Dunlop Inc. has arranged an $11 million acquisition bridge loan for The MacFarlane Group, which will use the loan to convert the currently Ambassador Hotel in Fort Myers into a 323-unit independent living facility. The development plan for the property is fully approved. Daniel Lisser, New York-based senior vice president, led the Walker & Dunlop team that structured the one-year bridge loan, which includes full-term interest only payments. ACRES Capital, a bridge lender that started its business just a few months ago, provided the financing after the original lender dropped out of the deal.
SCARSDALE, N.Y. — Developer Amba P. Sharma has opened The Ambassador of Scarsdale, an assisted living community located at 9 Saxon Wood Road in Scarsdale. The 115-unit property features studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom residences, a secure on-site memory care program, a fitness center, fully equipped medical offices, a restaurant, fine arts studio, full-service beauty salon and spa, a living room and lounge with fireplaces, and a business center. The project team includes Stamford, Conn.-based Perkins Eastman Architects, Jasper Design and Solutions-Advisors.
OAK LAWN, ILL. — Capital One Multifamily Finance has provided a $10.9 million fixed-rate, HUD 232/223(f) loan to refinance a 133-bed skilled nursing facility in Oak Lawn. Joshua Rosen of Capital One originated the transaction for the undisclosed borrower. The property was built in 1962, with an addition in 1985 and substantial renovations and improvements between 2005 and 2012. The current owners acquired the property in 2012, and have upgraded resident rooms and bathrooms.
ELKTON, MD. — The Community Builders Inc. (TCB) and Home Partnership Inc. have completed construction on the $11 million North Street Senior Residences at 214 North St. in Elkton. Several local officials, including Elkton Mayor Robert J. Alt and Cecil County Executive Tari Moore, attended the opening of the new affordable seniors housing community. The new development, built from a former historic county jail which was most recently a community center, brings 53 new units to Elkton area seniors. The one-bedroom apartments average over 600 square feet of living space with monthly rents ranging from $434 to $675. The two-bedroom apartments offer nearly 900 square feet with monthly rents ranging from $755 to $795 depending on resident income. North Street Senior Residences, which is managed by Habitat America, is the first TCB development in Maryland.
LA PORTE, TEXAS — Lancaster Pollard and MRC have arranged the refinance of Happy Harbor Apartments, a 51-unit affordable seniors housing community in La Porte. Originally built in 1983, Methodist Retirement Community (MRC) owns and manages the site that is part of its healthy living communities. The $2.2 million loan is insured by the FHA Sec. 223(f) program. The transaction provided for nearly $930,000 in repairs for the foundation, plumbing fixtures, drywall repair, painting and other related damage at the property.
TAMPA, Fla. — DTZ has arranged the $20 million sale of Arbor Terrace at Citrus Park in Tampa on behalf of Citrus Park ALF LLC. The project was pre-sold to Capitol Seniors Housing prior to breaking ground and the transaction closed upon certificate of occupancy. The property is built on 6.3 acres and comprises 52 assisted living, 14 transitional memory care and 26 memory care units. Arbor Terrace was designed by Tampa architectural firm Chancey Design and developed by a joint venture between Tampa architect/developer Walt Chancey and Rookis Development Co. based in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. The DTZ team of Allen McMurtry, Megan Fetter and David Kliewer closed the transaction.
HUNTINGDON VALLEY, PA. — NAI Mertz has brokered the sale of a 4.45-acre development site located on Lieberman Drive in Huntingdon Valley. First Baptist Church of Huntingdon Valley sold the parcel to Artis Senior Living for $850,000. The buyer plans to develop a 72-bed memory-care, assisted living residence on the site. Groundbreaking for the assisted living facility is slated for early summer. This facility will be the company’s fourth Artis community under construction or in operation. Jeffrey Licht and Adam Lashner of NAI Mertz represented the seller in the deal.