• Public REIT Divests Two Georgia AL/MC Communities

    Berkadia was engaged in the sale of two assisted living and memory care communities in the Atlanta, Georgia MSA. The communities are located in Atlanta and Marietta and total 146 units. The seller was a publicly traded REIT. Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders handled the transaction. No additional details were... Read More »
  • Missouri-Based Provider Acquires SNF Portfolio (with HUD debt)

    Blueprint was engaged by Birchwood Healthcare Partners, a Chicago-based private investor and owner/operator, in its sale of its eastern Oklahoma skilled nursing portfolio. The regionally clustered portfolio comprises seven facilities that total 561 beds. It benefited from the recent Medicaid rate increases and steady census rebounds. There was... Read More »
  • CFG Secures Bridge-to-HUD Loan for Massachusetts SNF

    Capital Funding Group announced the closing of a bridge-to-HUD loan totaling $9.75 million on behalf of a nationally recognized borrower. The loan supports the refinancing of a 123-bed skilled nursing facility in Massachusetts. Tim Eberhardt, Craig Casagrande and Ava Julio handled the transaction. This financing follows CFG’s announcement of the... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Acquires AL Community in Colorado

    Ziegler was engaged by Bethesda Senior Living in its sale of an assisted living community in Grand Junction, Colorado. Bethesda is divesting this non-core asset to focus on the growth of its mission. Cornerstone Management purchased the community in conjunction with a private real estate fund. Eric Johnson handled the transaction. No other... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: M&A Activity Heats Up in May

    We have said this before, but the seniors housing and care M&A market is on pace to record its best-ever year in terms of transaction activity, and by some margin. Already by this point in May, we are closing in on 250 transactions for the year, so far, which puts us on track for more than 600 publicly announced deals when we close out 2024.... Read More »

Caddis Partners: “Full speed ahead” on Heartis-branded communities

This month, Caddis Partners began construction on its fifth and sixth Heartis-branded communities in Texas. Heartis Cypress and Heartis Clear Lake—both located in the Houston area and both 78-unit communities (54 assisted living units and 24 memory care beds)—are expected to open in early 2015. Caddis, a Dallas-based real estate development, management, and investment firm operating strictly within the health-care sector, announced in June 2013 that it would invest $100 million in the senior living segment over 24 months. At that time, too, construction had just begun on Heartis Cleburne, a 96-unit assisted living and memory care community south of Fort Worth and the company’s first... Read More »

Village Pointe Commons moving forward in Wisconsin

Tarantino & Co., the Waukesha, Wisconsin, real estate developer, plans to build a $20 million senior housing community in a commercial district on the south side of Grafton, Wisconsin. The 200-unit project, to be called Village Pointe Commons, will have levels of care, services, and amenities common to the senior communities that the developer already operates under its Capri Senior Communities banner. An aging mall that once occupied the development site was razed in 2008 to be replaced by an extensive mixed-use project—a 17-building complex on 22 acres that included a new retail center and townhouse- and apartment-style condominiums. The retail center was finished before the full... Read More »

Creating “silk purses” from “sow’s ears” in Indianapolis

Joe Whitsett, an Indianapolis native and prominent tax-credit real estate lawyer before founding TWG Development, LLC, has an affinity for historic buildings. Since 2007, TWG (originally The Whitsett Group) has been turning rundown buildings in and around the city from eyesores into attractive affordable housing for seniors and for families. The most recent example is a $9.6 million conversion of a four-story structure at 1352 N. Illinois Street—built in 1929 and formerly occupied by a commercial laundry—into 63 affordable seniors housing units. The project was awarded $836,756 in federal low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs), as well as $450,000 in additional state funding. LIHTCs,... Read More »

Trilogy continues its amazing growth

Trilogy Health Services just celebrated the opening of Hearthstone Health Campus in Bloomington, Indiana, and announced the grand opening of Arlington Place Health Campus in Indianapolis. The two new developments represent Trilogy’s 79th and 80th senior living communities, the provider’s 49th and 50th sites in Indiana, and the seventh and eighth major new campus development or expansion projects undertaken by the company in the past year. A $10 million building, Hearthstone Health Campus has 104 units—26 assisted living and 78 skilled nursing—in a “town square” residential setting, which is the model Trilogy has used in its other recent senior living developments. Private and companion... Read More »

Presbyterian Communities & Services: 2 projects underway

Presbyterian Communities & Services (PC&S), a not-for-profit senior living organization based in Irving, Texas, has two large development projects underway in Dallas: 1) a five-stage makeover of Presbyterian Village North, and 2) a state-of-the-art inpatient hospice center. Pi Architects of Austin prepared a five-stage master plan for renovating and expanding Presbyterian Village North, a 550-resident community on 67 acres. Phase 1 of the makeover, priced at $87 million, includes general renovations but also adds new independent living, assisted living, memory care, and rehabilitation facilities, along with new fitness and aquatics centers. The project began last May, with... Read More »