Two Transactions From HJ Sims
HJ Sims recently helped a CCRC in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (Jacksonville MSA) refinance its existing bond debt, generating significant savings for the well operating property. Developed in the mid-1980s, this community features 227 independent living units, 38 private assisted living units and 60 skilled nursing beds. Occupancy has historically been high and consistently over 95% for the independent living units, which recently received a renovation. The community’s Series 2007 bonds were not eligible for an advance refunding, because they had repaid the 1993 bonds that were used to advance refund the original 1987 issuance. However, HJ Sims worked with the community’s commercial bank... Read More »
HJ Sims Heads to Hudson
Interest rates are on the rise, as Janet Yellen moves to end an era of unprecedented stimulative monetary police. With that shift likely coming, borrowers will look to take advantage of low interest rates now. That was clearly on the mind of the owners of a 150-acre not-for-profit CCRC in northeast Ohio, who worked with HJ Sims to arrange a $32 million debt modification. Opened in 1989 in the town of Hudson (Akron/Cleveland MSA), the community features 225 independent living units, 66 IL villas, 59 assisted living units and 75 skilled nursing beds, in addition to a host of amenities like three on-site restaurants, a pub, fitness/aquatic center, three stocked fishing lakes and a three-hole... Read More »HJ Sims Helps Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America partnered with HJ Sims to issue $39.73 million in tax-exempt bonds to refinance its 268-unit/bed CCRC in Anoka, Minnesota. Originally built in 2012 with 120 skilled nursing beds and 59 assisted/independent living units, this community added 65 IL units and 24 memory care units to the campus, in addition to converting the 59 AL/IL units to all-assisted living. The borrower is an affiliate of Volunteers of America, an interdenominational church and Christian human services organization that has been in operation since 1896. Series 2011 and Series 2014 bonds financed the development of both phases of the community, and the Series 2017 bonds will advance refund only the... Read More »Seattle Seniors Housing Operator Develops Again
Merrill Gardens is growing yet again, through the development of two more assisted living/memory care communities in Washington and Georgia. This comes just months after Seattle-based Merrill and an unidentified partner bought out the majority stake owned by an affiliate of Heitman in a small portfolio of four senior living communities either developed or acquired in the previous couple of years. That sale was arranged by Cushman & Wakefield. But now, the company is growing again in a partnership with its sister company, Pillar Properties. First, in its hometown of Seattle, Merrill opened a community with 91 independent/assisted living and 10 memory care units, at a total development... Read More »Schedule a demo
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