• Standalone Memory Care Community Sells in San Antonio

    Soon after selling a standalone memory care community in Katy, Texas, Blueprint sold another one in San Antonio, Texas, that was built in 2013. The Landing at Stone Oak was originally marketed in late 2023, but the process came to a halt when ownership chose to continue improving operations rather than transact. The operational turnaround was not... Read More »
  • Investor Acquires Full AL/MC Community

    A local private investment group divested its stabilized seniors housing community, Village at Oakwood Assisted Living. Originally built in 2010 with use of multiple layers of tax credits, the building comprises 90 assisted living and memory care units. The high-quality physical plant sits in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and was 100% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Expands Its Portfolio

    Foundry Commercial and Fortress Investment Group acquired two seniors housing communities in Central Florida with a combined 180 assisted living and 72 memory care units (a total of 260 beds). This is the joint venture’s second transaction, marking the third and fourth communities added to the joint portfolio. The undisclosed seller was... Read More »
  • California SNF Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments helped the owner of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility find a new operator. The new management company, which has a strong regional footprint, will pay $3.75 million in annual rent to the investor owner, Don Gormly. Built in 2016, the 120-bed facility is Anberry Transitional Care in Merced, California. Its occupancy was... Read More »
  • CCRC Secures Funding for Expansion

    Ziegler announced the closing of Friendship Village of Kalamazoo’s $103.585 million Series 2026A, B-1, B-2, and B-3 bonds issued through the Economic Development Corporation of the City of Kalamazoo. Lifecare, Inc., doing business as Friendship Village Kalamazoo, is on approximately 72 acres within Kalamazoo, Michigan. The 364-unit CCRC comprises... 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 »

LTC and Anthem expanding in Chicagoland

With four memory care communities already open in the Chicago metro area in the last few years, a joint venture between LTC Properties and Anthem Memory Care is on track to add three more communities in the next year or so. The first project is in Burr Ridge, features 66 units of memory care and will open later this year, with a cost of approximately $12 million, or $181,800 per unit (right around average for assisted living/memory care in Illinois, which is $188,700 per unit, according to our data). Second, LTC just recently closed on 3.5 acres of land in Tinley Park, Illinois for approximately $700,000, on which they plan to construct another 66-unit memory care community. The project,... Read More »

Anthem Memory Care to develop multiple locations in suburban Chicago

Anthem Memory Care of Lake Oswego, Oregon, has received approval to develop a new memory-care community in the Village of Burr Ridge, Illinois—the first of several communities the company plans to bring to the suburbs of Chicago. Anthem is also under contract for two additional purchase and sale agreements in Chicagoland—one in Tinley Park and another in Glenview—and is pursuing as many as seven other locations in the area. The 40,000 square-foot Burr Ridge community, with an estimated development cost of $12 million and as yet unnamed, will accommodate up to 76 residents dealing with various levels of Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other forms of memory loss. Upon opening, the new facility is... Read More »