Building on the North Shore
The Chicago suburbs of the North Shore, one of the wealthiest areas in the country, will soon be getting a new assisted living/memory care community in the town of Prospect Heights, Illinois. Greenbrier Senior Living, a Chicago-based developer, is teaming up with institutional equity partner, Och-Ziff Real Estate, and Chicago-based operating partner, Pathway Senior Living, to build the 94,333-square foot building, which will feature 69 AL units and 32 MC units. To help finance the project, Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing secured a $21.41 million, five-year floating rate construction loan, with 39 months of interest only, placed through a regional bank. If we assume the loan was... Read More »Ziegler funds reposition project
A Kentucky nonprofit with plans to renovate and reposition its skilled nursing facility in the town of Covington (Cincinnati MSA) turned to Ziegler to close a $48.7 million non-rated, fixed-rate bond issue. Incorporated in 1962, Kenton Housing has repositioned its facility several times before, most recently in 1992 when the 210-bed facility existing today was constructed on an 11-acre plot in Covington. Now, the company plans to spend upwards of $33.5 million to both renovate its existing building and construct a new senior care facility in the town of Elsmere, which will consist of 54 skilled nursing beds and 20 memory care units. Kenton Housing will transfer the CON for 34 licensed... Read More »Pay the rent
After recently acquiring three skilled nursing facilities in Kansas (two of which were turnarounds), Birchwood Health Care Properties acquired another skilled nursing facility in need of some care, this time in Huntington, West Virginia. The facility, which includes 41 skilled beds and 17 assisted living units, was originally built in 1928 but was renovated in 2009. And despite having a stabilized occupancy at 90%, it was losing money. This was the only senior care asset of the owner, who decided to sell the facility when their operator tenant stopped paying rent and filed for bankruptcy. Enter Birchwood, which purchased the facility for $3.2 million, or $55,200 per bed/unit and brought in... Read More »Two for one
Greystone completed its first transaction where it both assists with a sale and places the debt to fund it. Mike Garbers, a Managing Director of Greystone Real Estate Advisors, closed the sale of a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in Virginia Beach, Virginia for $38 million, or an above-average $345,500 per unit. A private seniors housing owner is the seller, and Capital Senior Living is the buyer. Built in 2001, the assisted living portion includes 69 studios and 16 one-bedroom units, while the 25 memory care units (all studios) were added in 2012. To finance the transaction, Cary Tremper of Greystone’s Debt and Structured Finance Team secured a $28.5 million loan through a... Read More »Schedule a demo
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