• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:25 pm | Acquisitions

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »

  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:22 pm | Acquisitions

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »

  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:21 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »

  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:20 pm | Developments, Financings

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »

  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    by | Nov 14, 2025 2:19 pm | Financings

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »
Leaving with Grace

Leaving with Grace

by | Sep 21, 2016 8:30 am | Opinion

While attending the NIC conference in Washington, D.C. last week, I learned that Gene and Mari Jo Grace of Grace Management are retiring after nearly 33 years in the seniors housing and care business. I have known them for most of that 33 years, and I feel like the industry is losing not only two very top-notch professionals, but two friends. The respect they command, and the friendship they have shown to so many over the years is unparalleled, not to mention the depth of their industry knowledge and history. They have seen it all. Two years ago, they sold their company to Chicago Pacific Founders (CPF) but continued on in their roles. In those two years, with the help of John Rijos and... Read More »
Triumph in Tucson

Triumph in Tucson

by | Apr 22, 2016 8:31 am | Acquisitions

Making its second-ever acquisition in Arizona, Chicago Pacific Founders added a 140-unit independent living community in Tucson to its growing portfolio of now eight properties located across the country. Almost a year prior to this deal, CPF had entered into the Arizona market with its $7.2 million purchase of a 79-unit assisted/independent living community in Sun City. Also, just over the border in Nevada, CPF acquired a 72-unit assisted living community in Pahrump for an estimated $7.5 million. The newest property is located in a residential and retail area in southwest Tucson, and is close to several major medical centers. CPF plans to make investments in the community, and its... Read More »