Building Boston
Aaron Rosenzweig, Jim Dooley and Rick Swartz of Cushman & Wakefield recently arranged $16.3 million in construction financing and joint venture equity for LCB Senior Living and Blue Moon Capital Partners to develop an 80-unit senior living community in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Located about 35 miles west of Boston on a 5.4-acre site, the three-story building will feature 60 independent/assisted living units (though all AL-licensed) and 20 memory care units. C&W arranged a five-year loan at 65% loan-to-cost, provided by M&T Bank. At an estimated cost of $25 million, or $310,000 per unit, the project is expected to break ground this month, with an opening scheduled for... Read More »Assisted Living “Lite” Or Not
Whether you think you operate your assisted living community under a hospitality model or a healthcare model, there will only be more health care in the future. Recently, there have been some stories in the senior care media about the hospitality model for assisted living compared with the healthcare model. That was a big debate in the late 1990s when 20 assisted living companies went public as some companies didn’t want to be labeled as “healthcare” companies, with all the regulatory and reimbursement baggage that comes with it. Some preferred to call the hospitality model “assisted living lite.” In fact, the founder of Sunrise Senior Living was famously quoted as saying Sunrise did not... Read More »
Phoenix rises
There has been an uptick in seniors housing and care construction in the Phoenix area in just this year. First, Mainstreet announced its first development in the state of Arizona, breaking ground in mid-February on its 94-bed skilled nursing/assisted living facility at a cost of $21.9 million, or $233,000 per bed. The facility also is the first to be operated by Mainstreet Health, the developer’s new operating company. Then, Love Funding announced that it provided a $15 million bridge loan to finance the construction of a 90-unit assisted living/memory care community in the adjacent town of Peoria. The private pay community, which will feature 58 memory care units and 32 assisted living... Read More »Enlivant lives on!
Enlivant, the Chicago-based owner/operator of assisted living communities, recently purchased a memory care community and an AL/MC community, both located in Georgia. Enlivant is the successor company to the former Assisted Living Concepts, which has been in the news of late when its former CEO Laurie Bebo’s case against the SEC was recently rejected by the Supreme Court. Back to the deal, the 42-unit memory care community (which has some high acuity units too) in Rome was built in 1999, while the community in Cedartown was built in 1991 with 29 AL units, plus 20 MC units added in 2014. Under its ownership by the seller, Winthrop Senior Living, the occupancy had varied over the years, but... Read More »Yuba to be kidding me
A Southern California-based real estate entrepreneur is selling their remaining seniors housing asset, a 71-unit assisted living/memory care community in Yuba City, California that it purchased over 10 years ago. The acquisition was meant to be a turnaround opportunity (the facility was built in 1993), with the buyer bringing in a third-party operator and spending over $1 million in capital improvements since 2008. Today, occupancy is around 91%, and the community is operating at roughly a 34% margin on $2.9 million of revenues. The new owner, a real estate investment and management firm, is growing its seniors housing portfolio, with this deal representing its twelfth acquisition in the... Read More »Changes at the top
There has been a lot of mobility in the seniors housing C-suite lately (Kai Hsiao stepping down as CEO of Holiday Retirement earlier this year, Doug Korey heading over to LTC Properties, the recent Brookdale Senior Living shuffle, etc…), and yet another job change was announced at the end of March. HCP’s Chief Financial Officer, Timothy Schoen, is leaving the company to become President of BioMed Realty, a life science real estate company based in San Diego that was recently purchased by real estate funds managed by Blackstone for approximately $8 billion. Mr. Schoen had been with HCP since 2006 and has served as Executive Vice President since 2009 and CFO since 2011. Mr. Schoen will... Read More »Time To Move Forward
Activist shareholders can distract management from focusing on growth and cash flow, and maybe Brookdale and Capital Senior Living can move forward in peace. Don’t you just hate distractions. Andy Smith at Brookdale has had to deal with a bunch of activist shareholders for the past year while trying to right his ship. Larry Cohen of Capital Senior Living had his activist several years ago, who then went on his board and became aligned with management’s goals. In round two this year, he has come to agreement with another one, Lucas Advisors, known by some as the trust fund baby hedge fund. Capital has agreed to appoint a new independent Board member, consulting with Lucas on the... Read More »
SLIB does Thonotosassa
A buyer has the potential to get even more bang for their buck when it purchased a 51-unit assisted living/memory care community in Thonotosassa, Florida (Tampa MSA). The community, built in 1963, was extensively renovated and converted to AL/MC in 2008, giving it the look of a purpose-built asset. The building has large-enough floor plans, and the physical plant capability, to increase the building’s bed capacity and grow revenues. Those plans, however, were not pursued by the single-asset owner that was looking to exit the market. There were still some immediate capex needs, some deferred maintenance and an inconsistent operating history at the community. The buyer, a private capital... Read More »
Pensacola purchase
Following up on its $1.45 billion in total closings for 2015, HFF recently closed another sale. Representing the seller, a private San Diego-based owner/operator, Ryan Maconachy and Chad Lavender of HFF sold a 95-unit assisted living community (built in 1988) and an 84-unit memory care community (built in 1997 and 2006), both located in Pensacola, Florida. The two communities combined for 94% occupancy, but the AL was dragging slightly. The owner completed almost $1.3 million of capex since the beginning of 2014 at the MC community, and was in the middle of renovating the AL community. Capital Senior Living was the buyer and purchased the properties for $48 million, or $268,156 per unit,... Read More »
Growing in Winter Garden
An Orlando-based owner, developer and operator of senior living communities in Central Florida recently broke ground on its newest property in Winter Garden, located just west of the city of Orlando. Sonata Senior Living, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sonata Healthcare, LLC, will build 113 total apartments, including 78 independent living units and 35 assisted living units. Plus, the community will offer 10 exclusive “Club Level” units, which feature upgraded finishes and special access. Its location is excellent, within one mile of the new Florida Hospital and a local dining and shopping area. And Sonata runs a separate memory care community adjacent to the new property. At a cost of $30... Read More »Schedule a demo
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