• Public REIT Purchases Texas Class-A Seniors Housing

    Blueprint was engaged in the divestment of a Class-A seniors housing community in San Antonio, Texas. Built in two phases in 2011 and 2017, Franklin Park TPC Parkway comprises 269 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Following the completion of a six-year freeway expansion project that affected leasing, access to the... Read More »
  • Eads Sells Its 24th & 25th Missouri Community

    Patrick Byrne of Eads Investment Brokerage facilitated the divestment of two seniors housing communities in Missouri. This marks the 24th and 25th communities sold in Missouri for Eads. The Moberly community (which we believe to be Mark Twain Assisted Living) comprises 35 assisted living/independent living units and sold for $2.57 million, or... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: CMS Raises the Minimum Staffing Mandate

    On Monday, CMS came out with its final minimum staffing standards for nursing homes, but the eventual outcome is anything but final. Despite the outcry from nursing home providers from the previous proposed mandate of three hours per resident per day, asking simple questions like how can we pay for this and where will this newly needed staff come... Read More »
  • More Shareholder Activism

    Fresh from its success in getting two people voted onto the Ventas Board of Directors, Land & Buildings is at it again, this time with National Health Investors. Like all the REITs, NHI’s managers and tenants had their share of problems during the pandemic. Who didn’t? Most of these issues are behind it, but the REIT could be in even stronger... Read More »
  • Active Adult Expansion A Hit With Investors

    How often have we heard that new development is dead? Or that CCRCs (LPCs) are on their way out? Too often. But how often do you hear about an Active Adult expansion on a CCRC campus, and one with entrance fees? Not often enough. That didn’t stop Three Pillars Senior Living Communities and Cain Brothers from putting together a plan that may... Read More »
Omega Healthcare Investors Announces Development in D.C.

Omega Healthcare Investors Announces Development in D.C.

In its third quarter earnings report, Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI) revealed a $68 million property purchase in Washington, D.C. for a major seniors housing development. The existing 173,932-square-foot building was previously home to The Fairfax Embassy Row, a historic hotel that will now become a luxury 174-unit assisted living community called Inspir Embassy Row. OHI has entered into a single-facility lease for the property with Maplewood Senior Living through August 2045, which will be its second Inspir location after first opening a community in New York City. But this also represents Maplewood’s entry into the Washington, D.C. market. Substantial construction of the community is... Read More »

Maplewood Grows Its Fairfield County Portfolio

A few weeks ago, we wrote of LCB Senior Living’s latest investments in the high-income Fairfield County, Connecticut, with developments going up in Stamford and Darien. We have wondered whether the demand is there for those projects, and others that have finished in recent years. We know that some of them are operating very well, with full occupancy at $10,000+ per month rents. But now Maplewood Senior Living, headquartered in nearby Westport and already established in the area with five communities in the county, just closed on a 27-acre site in Southport where it plans to build a 98-unit assisted living/memory care community. Construction is expected to begin this summer and will include... Read More »

LCB Senior Living Brings Its Luxury Brand to Fairfield County

LCB Senior Living has already established itself as a luxury provider of assisted living/memory care services in New England, with 11 communities in Massachusetts, three in Vermont, two each in Connecticut and New Hampshire, and one in Rhode Island. The developer also has two construction projects in Massachusetts and one in New Hampshire. But now, LCB is taking its luxury brand to the high-income and high-cost Fairfield County for the first time, with two developments in Stamford and Darien, Connecticut (both about 45 miles from New York City). In June 2016, LCB purchased a one-acre parcel near downtown Stamford and is currently building a seven-story, 104-unit assisted living/memory care... Read More »
Welltower in NYC?

Welltower in NYC?

Welltower, in partnership with real estate investment firm (and newbie to seniors housing), Hines, has acquired a site to develop an assisted living/memory care community in Midtown Manhattan. The original owners of the two adjacent properties that make up the one site brought in Eastern Consolidated to represent them in the sale, for which the terms were not disclosed. Design and development plans have been started, but no scheduled start date has been announced. So, it looks like Omega Healthcare Investors and Maplewood Senior Living will have some competition for their Manhattan senior living development, which is located on the Upper East Side and comprises 20 stories of 214... Read More »

Build up downtown

We have heard from some that there is a huge opportunity for urban seniors housing, with more seniors, and eventually (and we mean years down the road) desiring to live in a downtown setting, surrounded by shops, restaurants and entertainment outside of their own building. A few examples of developers looking to satisfy this in a big way are The Clare of Water Tower (the 53-story CCRC in Chicago that cost approximately $270 million to build) and Maplewood Senior Living’s latest development in Manhattan (with 20 stories and 214 units at a cost of $246 million), to name a couple. Columbia Pacific Advisors, a Seattle-based alternative investment firm, is now planning a 24-story, 237-unit... Read More »