Construct with HUD
With all the construction going on today in the seniors housing and care industry, how are these developers financing their projects? Once you get past the longer lines and list of regulations, HUD has a few attractive options. Walker & Dunlop is one lender that has worked with HUD a good amount recently to fund new construction and expansion projects for borrowers across the country. One such example is a $5 million construction/permanent loan through HUD’s 232 program for TDK Companies to build a 36-unit assisted living/memory care community on its existing 82-unit AL campus is Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Primarily a build-and-hold multifamily developer, TDK forayed into the seniors... Read More »Constructing in Chicagoland
Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged a pair of construction loans on behalf of a joint venture between Pathway Senior Living and Virtus Real Estate Capital to build two senior living communities. First, the joint venture will build a $34.4 million community in Westmont, Illinois with 75 assisted living units and 34 memory care units to be financed with a $24.075 million loan. And second is a $26.2 million project with 120 assisted living units in Lake Zurich, Illinois funded by $18.313 million in construction financing. Both floating rate loans feature four-year terms with 36 months of interest only and were placed with a regional bank. Pathway will manage the two properties... Read More »New EB-5 developer hits the ground running in California
Al Rattan, a real estate developer with over 30 years of experience building residential, commercial, industrial, office, health care and senior care properties, is jumping back into the seniors housing market with his company, Continental East Development (CED). Founded in 2009, CED has already developed a number of retail, office, and medical properties, but started to take a look at seniors housing in 2011. Having already developed and operated an independent/assisted living community in Anaheim Hills, California (before selling it at full occupancy), Mr. Rattan plans to utilize large amounts of EB-5 equity (up to 60% of the development cost) raised through his USA Continental Regional... Read More »High-acuity community to be built
Aron Will, together with Jim Sellers and Tim Prouty, of CBRE arranged a $25.03 million construction loan for a joint venture between The Freshwater Group and Kayne-Anderson to build a 129-unit/135-bed senior care community in Tucson, Arizona. The loan, placed through a regional bank, featured a three-year floating rate term which then converts to a three-year mini-perm loan. Kayne-Anderson will provide institutional equity for the project, while Watermark Retirement Communities will operate the finished community, which will consist of five buildings with assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services. For the assisted living, it will be fully licensed Directed Care, the highest... Read More »Anthem adding ninth property
Anthem Memory Care is expanding its memory care offering in its third state of operations with plans to build a 66-unit community in Murrieta, California. Founded in 2008, the company already has a presence in the Denver metro, with four communities, and a property in Chico, California, and recently announced that it is developing three properties in Chicagoland in a joint-venture with LTC Properties. Now, Anthem has broken ground on its ninth property in Murrieta at a cost of $12.6 million, or $190,900 per unit. That figure is on the low side for California, which averages $260,000 per unit to build memory care or assisted living/memory care communities, according to our data (which... Read More »Schedule a demo
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