• Not-For-Profit Expands Texas Footprint

    Buckner Retirement Services, Inc., a not-for-profit senior living provider, acquired a CCRC in Texas. This will be the seventh senior living community owned/operated by Buckner in the state. The seller, Lifespace Communities Inc., acquired the community in 2019 and has operated it since. Lifespace was focused on finding a buyer with similar... Read More »
  • Fast-Growing SNF Operator Files for IPO

    There may be a new publicly traded senior care company on the horizon, as PACS Group, a Utah-based skilled nursing operator with more than 200 facilities in its current portfolio, filed for an initial public offering with the SEC on March 13. It plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol PACS. The company is barely 10 years old but has grown its... Read More »
  • Ziegler Handles Chicago SNF Deal

    A for-profit buyer is taking over ownership of a not-for-profit skilled nursing facility in an affluent north Chicago suburb. Ziegler acted as advisor to the Illinois-based not-for-profit seller, with Managing Director Nick Glaisner leading the transaction and Melanie Shaffer in support.  This was an older, multi-story facility, having been built... Read More »
  • Blueprint Sells Plano Property

    Blueprint facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Plano, Texas. Built in the late 1990s, the community offers 65 units of assisted living and memory care. The buyer was a regional owner/operator looking to expand in the state. The seller, a developer/investor, is divesting the community after selling over 12 geographically... Read More »
  • Dwight & Co Adds to Services and Team

    Dwight & Co has expanded its seniors housing and healthcare financing solutions by launching working capital revolving lines of credit (revolvers). The company also announced a couple of new hires.  The revolvers will integrate into Dwight’s existing bridge, mezzanine, and HUD healthcare lending platform, providing a comprehensive... Read More »
Love Funding Closes Construction Bridge Loan

Love Funding Closes Construction Bridge Loan

Leonard Lucas of Love Funding closed a $10.5 million bridge-to-HUD construction loan for a transitional rehab facility in Yuma, Arizona. The new facility will have 32,000 square feet and 41 private rooms. It will be 100% Medicare and managed care with no Medicaid patients. The bridge loan was placed with Love Funding’s parent company, Midland States Bank. This is the second bridge-to-HUD construction loan obtained through Love Funding in the developer/operator’s portfolio. Read More »
Love Funding in the Last Frontier

Love Funding in the Last Frontier

Love Funding secured financing for the Last Frontier’s newest assisted living community. Located in Anchorage’s U-Med district (and less than two miles from three hospitals), the community is being purpose-built by Baxter Senior Living as a high-end assisted living option for Alaskans. Along with 63 private AL and 33 private and semi-private memory care units, the private pay community will feature amenities including a theater, café and pub, fitness studio and art center, with Portland, Oregon-based Paradigm Senior Living as its manager. Love Funding’s Holly Bray secured a $20.1 million bridge loan provided by Love’s parent company, Midland States Bank, with First National Bank Alaska... Read More »

Love Funding Fuels Senior Living Construction Project

James Vanar of Love Funding arranged a $6.8 million bridge loan for a new assisted living/memory care development in South Jordan, Utah. Giza Development leads the team, including Stout Construction and Primera Group, developing the 62-bed community, which will be operated by SAL Management Group. Midland States Bank, the parent company of Love, provided what is now the second loan for Giza (the first was for a development in Ogden, Utah in 2016). Since its launch in May 2015, Love Funding’s bridge lending platform has financed more than $153 million in closings and has another $220 million in loans in the pipeline. That should make for a busy 2017. Read More »

Bridge with Love

A new 62-bed assisted living/memory care community is being developed in Ogden, Utah with the help of a $6.63 million bridge construction loan arranged by James Vanar of Love Funding. The loan, which was provided by Love’s parent company Midland States Bank, is expected to be taken out in three years by a HUD refinance. It also allows the developer, Utah-based Giza Development, to start the project sooner and begin accepting residents. Since introducing the bridge loan program in May 2015, Love has already financed over $65 million in bridge loans, not including $300 million of loans in its pipeline. Read More »
Phoenix rises

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 »