Seniors housing and care development is heating up more than ever, spurred by the impending wave of retiring Baby Boomers. Follow who is building, where projects are breaking ground, how much they are costing, how developments are being financed, and whether operators will be able to adequately fill these properties.
Lancaster Pollard recently helped Innovative Health secure construction financing for their to-be-built skilled nursing facility in Aurora, Illinois. The transitional care facility will operate under the THRIVE brand and focus on short-term rehabilitation. It is being built with 68 beds in 60 units and 50,582 total square feet on a 4.25-acre site. According to public […]
Confluent Senior Living announced the sale of three of its senior living communities in Iowa, Oregon and New Mexico, hiring CBRE to close the deal. All three communities were, and will continue to be, operated by MorningStar Senior Living. The West Des Moines, Iowa property opened in March 2018 with 85 assisted living and memory […]
A new life plan community (or continuing care retirement community, as we still call them) is going up in Collierville, Tennessee (Memphis MSA) thanks to a large $219.25 million bond placement arranged by HJ Sims. Situated on 36 acres with 176 independent living apartments, 63 independent living garden homes, 52 assisted living units, 32 memory […]
A brand-new age-restricted town home community is going up in the Long Island hamlet of Mount Sinai, thanks in part to $18 million of joint venture equity secured by Evan Pariser, Rob Hinckley, Nicco Lupo and Sophie Cohen of JLL Capital Markets. Sculptor Capital Management Inc., formerly known as Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, provided the […]
Age-restricted (or active adult or 55+) housing has been a popular investment target in the last couple of years, and Green Brick Partners, Inc., a residential land developer, is making a huge investment in a community to be built in the Atlanta, Georgia MSA. The company, though its subsidiary The Providence Group of Georgia, purchased […]
When at first you don’t succeed, try again. That was one borrower’s motto when a financing placement attempt fell through with one lender, so they decided to go to Noah Juran of NorthMarq to get the deal done. To fund the construction of a senior care facility on the borrower’s existing senior living campus in […]
Perhaps as a sign of the strength of both the CCRC and independent living markets, a CCRC in Seattle, Washington just broke ground on a 21-story, 77-unit independent living tower on its existing campus in the First Hill neighborhood. Owned by Transforming Age, a national not-for-profit with existing communities in Washington, Minnesota and Nebraska, it […]
Lancaster Pollard’s Propero Seniors Housing Equity Fund teamed up with Tender Loving Care Management (TLC) for the second time to provide equity for a to-be-built senior living community in Florida. Three years ago, Propero helped finance the construction of a $63 million, 242-bed project in Ocala that was going to offer assisted living, memory care […]
Confluent Senior Living and Harbor Retirement Associates are entering the Connecticut market with their development of a 113-unit assisted living/memory care community in the greater Hartford area. Set to break ground this month, the project is set on a 5.8-acre site in the town of South Windsor and will feature 65 assisted living and 48 […]
The general consensus (with several dissenters) is that senior living construction has (finally) slowed down, after a long period of overdevelopment in many markets. Considering the downstream effects of this, from a tighter, more expensive labor market to lower occupancy, the slowdown is a good thing, especially since most of those elusive baby boomers won’t […]