SAN FRANCISCO — BRIDGE Housing has received a $19.4 million refinancing for Magnolia Plaza Senior Apartments, a 125-unit affordable seniors housing community in San Francisco. CPC Mortgage Co. provided the Freddie Mac Targeted Affordable Housing loan. Built in 1988, the property is age restricted to seniors age 62 and over. While there is a current requirement that 63 units be restricted to residents with incomes at or below 80 percent of area median income (AMI), BRIDGE has restricted 84 of the units and plans to increase this number going forward. …
OCALA, Fla. — Housing Trust Group (HTG) has completed Oak Valley, a $19 million affordable housing community for seniors in Ocala, approximately 70 miles northwest of Orlando. The property features 96 one- and two-bedroom units for residents 62 and older who earn up to 40 percent and 60 percent of the local area median income. Rents range from $369 to $730 per month for income-qualifying residents. The property was 100 percent pre-leased. Oak Valley was developed in partnership with nonprofit AM Affordable Housing Inc., an organization founded by former Miami Heat …
MINNEAPOLIS — Lupe Development has broken ground on Wirth on the Woods, a 200-unit seniors housing community in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood of Minneapolis. The senior housing campus includes 100 units of affordable seniors housing in a six-story building named The Theodore as well as 100 units of market-rate seniors housing in another six-story building known as The Eloise. These properties will share amenities including an outdoor courtyard, garden, greenhouse, pond and walking trails. The nonprofit organization Ecumen will operate the community. Construction is scheduled for completion in late summer …
BELLEVILLE, Ill. — The Southwestern Illinois Development Authority (SWIDA) and Bywater Development Group have completed construction of Lofts on the Square, an affordable housing community in Belleville, a suburb of St. Louis. The $14.2 million project was a historic rehabilitation of a 90-year-old building downtown Belleville’s public square. The property’s 47 units were fully preleased before the opening. The asset also features more than 3,000 feet of street-level commercial space that remains available for lease by retailers and restaurants. The six-story building opened in 1931 as the Hotel Belleville. It …
SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. — Arch Communities and WinnCompanies have completed a $25.7 million adaptive reuse project to transform a 106-year-old historic school building in Southbridge into apartments for seniors age 55 and older. The Residences at Wells School features 62 apartments, 56 of which provide affordable housing for those earning up to 60 percent of the area median income (AMI), including eight apartments reserved for residents at or below 30 percent of the AMI. Six apartments have been customized for handicapped and sensory-impaired households. WinnResidential, the property management arm of WinnCompanies, …
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Lockwood Cos. has broken ground on Lockwood of Ann Arbor, a 154-unit seniors housing community in Ann Arbor. The three-story, 168,130-square-foot building includes 65 units dedicated as affordable housing. Development costs were estimated at $45 million. Rents will range from $864 for a one-bedroom apartment to $2,750 for a two-bedroom apartment.
NEW YORK CITY — Lendlease has topped out Garden Towers, an affordable seniors housing community in the Bronx. Foxy Management is developing the property in partnership with HANAC Inc. and JLD Advisory LLC. The project includes two residential buildings — rising seven stories and eight stories — that together offer a total of 149 rental units for low-income adults age 62 or older. Lendlease, the construction manager for the project, broke ground on the development in August 2021 with an expected completion in 2023. “Garden Towers represents our third project …
BELLWOOD, Ill. — Evergreen Real Estate Group has broken ground on Bellwood Senior Apartments, an 80-unit affordable rental community in the western Chicago suburb of Bellwood. The $30 million project will replace a former Walgreens with a four-story, 73,228-square-foot residential building. Professionally operated by Evergreen’s in-house management team, Bellwood Senior Apartments will offer 76 one-bedroom and four two-bedroom independent living apartments for seniors age 62 or older, with incomes at or below 60 percent of the area median income. Evergreen will begin accepting applications for the apartments in spring 2023, …
MIAMI — A joint venture between Miami-based Integra Investments and nonprofit Elderly Housing Development & Operations Corp. (EHDOC) has completed Mosaico, a $58 million affordable housing community in Miami. The 13-story property will span 271 apartments reserved for households with citizens aged 62 years and older. Located in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, Mosaico features 179 one-bedroom units and 92 studios and townhomes. CC Hodgson Architectural Group designed the project. Integra Investments and EHDOC worked alongside HUD, the Housing Finance Authority of Miami-Dade County, City of Miami and Miami-Dade Public Housing & …
ORLANDO, Fla. — Wendover Housing Partners and the government of Orange County, Florida, have opened Hawthorne Park, an affordable seniors housing community in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Orlando. Hawthorne Park replaces a portion of an underutilized shopping center. The 120-unit community is designed for residents 55 and older meeting income requirements. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) 2022 GAP report, the Orlando metro area only has 18 affordable and available homes per 100 extremely low-income renters. A recent study conducted at the request of the Orange …