• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 »

Mainstreet breaks ground in Fort Worth

Construction has recently started on Mainstreet’s latest transitional care facility. The Next Generation® property, which will cost $19.3 million, or $205,300 per bed, to build, will feature 94 beds of both transitional care (short-stay rehab and therapy) and assisted living. Typical Mainstreet properties feature a 70-30 skilled nursing-to-assisted living breakdown, so we have to assume the same for the newest San Antonio property. The project is expected to be finished by October 2016 and marks the entrance of Mainstreet in the state of Texas. Dover Construction Company is the contractor for the project, while Evansville, Indiana-based Old National Bank provided construction... Read More »

In Indiana

Life Care Services (LCS) recently announced it was breaking ground on the Clarendale of Schererville in Schererville, Indiana, the third “Clarendale” property for LCS and construction partner Ryan Companies. The community will feature 177 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care at a cost of $40 million, or $226,000 per unit, to build. The two other “Clarendale” properties are located in Illinois: a 186-unit community in Algonquin and a 156-unit community in Mokena. While the newest property will be ready to open in spring 2017, it will not be short on company. There has been plenty of building going on in the state of Indiana, particularly in the Gary and Indianapolis... Read More »

Mainstreet’s move into Kansas

Where does Mainstreet go next? The developer of post-acute/assisted living facilities has already developed 19 facilities in Indiana since 2009, with five more coming in the next year. It has also constructed one facility each in Illinois and Colorado. Not much for geographical diversity. However, that will soon change, helped in large part by the company’s planned five-year, $5 billion development pipeline. One state where Mainstreet already has shovels in the ground is Kansas. For three of the projects, in Kansas City, Overland Park and Olathe, Mainstreet partnered with The Ensign Group to develop the facilities. And Mainstreet just last week broke ground on the fourth project, a 94-bed,... Read More »

New post-acute care venture

Looks like Mainstreet will be gaining some new competition, with a new venture entering the transitional care space, with a plan to develop upwards of 12 projects, all of which are currently in some stage of pre-development. The new venture, called Innovative Health LLC, was started by Brian Cloch, the founder and former President of the Affordable Assisted Living Coalition, and Brad Haber, who came from GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services. Combined, the duo has 50 years of experience in the long-term care industry. The properties will go by a “prototype” with 60 to 70 transitional care beds, mostly in private rooms. To fund the projects, Innovative Health will obtain HUD or... Read More »

The Aging of Skilled Nursing Facilities

The skilled nursing market is clearly aging when facilities 20 years and older make up about 87% of the transactions in 2014. The proportion of facilities sold by age largely depends on the product up for sale that year, but even in 2013, 81% of the sales involved a facility that was built before 1993. That is still a significant percentage, but is not that surprising in the industry. There hasn’t been much new construction of skilled nursing facilities (leaving openings for developers like Mainstreet and Innovative Health). However, average prices reached unprecedented levels despite the older facilities, which may mean that as the market demand increases for facilities with either a... Read More »