Civitas Senior Living is expanding its operations outside of Texas for the first time, as it is set to break ground on a senior living community in Louisville, Kentucky. Civitas has been one of the more active developers/acquirers in Texas (and that’s saying something). In 2015 alone, the company opened five new assisted living/memory care communities, and, after forming a new post-acute care division, also acquired two skilled nursing facilities plus an assisted living community in the town of Jefferson, Texas. Then, at the beginning of 2016, Civitas purchased two former Brookdale Senior Living properties in Harlingen, and currently has four communities set to open soon in Texas. After all that activity, it makes sense that the company would branch out to other markets. The new $20 million community in Louisville is set to open in early 2018 with 168 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. Cincinnati-based real estate development company Guttman Properties is partnering with Civitas to develop the property.