FORT WASHINGTON and LANCASTER, Pa. — Acts Retirement Services and Willow Valley Communities, two of the nation’s largest not-for-profit senior living organizations, have entered into a strategic alliance. Acts, which is based in Fort Washington, will serve as sole corporate sponsor and manager for Lancaster-based Willow Valley Communities. Both headquarters are in the greater Philadelphia area. Willow Valley Living CEO John Swanson will step aside from management oversight to focus entirely on future development of Willow Valley Communities properties. All other current Willow Valley Communities leadership will remain in place …
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. — Discovery Senior Living and Ventas have announced the rebranding of 19 former Elmcroft Senior Living communities. Management functions for the communities, which are located in multiple states, were transferred from prior operator Eclipse to Discovery, while Ventas will retain ownership of each. The move results in the TerraBella regional brand name’s transformation into a second, formal, regionally focused, wholly owned subsidiary management company for Discovery, and also gives rise to two newly created regional brands, SummerHouse and Seaton. Of the 19 communities, 13 were rebranded under …
TOLDEO, Ohio — Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL), a Toldeo-based REIT and the largest owner of seniors housing in the United States, has extended its 2021 spending spree by agreeing to acquire four seniors housing portfolios for a combined total of $1.3 billion. Welltower has invested $5.6 billion in acquisitions and developments since October 2020. Highlights include the acquisition of 86 Holiday Retirement communities for $1.6 billion and the acquisition of 22 properties in Ohio and Illinois totaling over 1,000 units. “Since pivoting to offense 13 months ago, Welltower is pleased …
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Blackford Capital has acquired ID Collaborative Inc. (IDC), an interior design firm that specializes in continuing care retirement communities. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal is Blackford’s third in the commercial interior design industry in 2021, following the acquisition of Georgia-based Design Environments and the merger of Vertically Integrated Projects and Boston Trade Interior Solutions. “We are aggressively executing against our strategic plan to address the highly fragmented interior design and procurement industries to better serve our customers and the industry as a whole,” …
DALLAS— Capital Senior Living Corp. (NYSE: CSU), an owner-operator of senior living communities across the United States, has closed the previously announced financing transactions with Conversant Capital and has raised a total of $154.8 million, including aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $34 million from a common stock rights offering. With the closing of the transaction, the company’s board of directors has been reconstituted. Noah Beren, Benjamin Harris, Dave Johnson, Max Levy, Shmuel Lieberman and Elliot Zibel will join the board, effective immediately. Philip Brooks, Jill Krueger and company CEO Kimberly …
CLEVELAND — Cleveland-based KeyBank Real Estate Capital, the commercial real estate business unit of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY), has established a new unitranche loan program with Toledo-based Welltower Inc. The healthcare real estate fund will total $750 million in lending capacity and will provide first mortgage financing on seniors housing and skilled nursing facilities. A unitranche loan blends senior and junior debt pricing and terms into a single first lien debt facility rather than creating two classes of debt and coordinating among multiple lenders. This approach increases certainty of execution, and …
MESA, Ariz. — Thoma-Holec Design has hired interior designer Lisa Warnock as principal at the Mesa-based firm. Warnock will lead the launch of the new Northwest Studio in Portland, Oregon, specializing in senior living, multifamily and hospitality design. Warnock has over 20 years of experience in the senior living, multifamily and hospitality sectors. She was previously principal and director of housing interiors at LRS Architects. Warnock earned her bachelor’s degree in interior design at Marylhurst University. In addition to her design work, Lisa is a member of the Illuminating Engineering …
WAYNE, Pa. — Specialty senior moving services provider Moves for Seniors has launched a safety-focused initiative to make fully vaccinated moving crews available to as many clients as possible. The Wayne-based company has fully vaccinated crews available in 50 markets to date, with ongoing efforts to add new markets weekly across the national network. “Our organization is purpose-built for seniors and a critical goal for us is customer safety,” says Chris Smith, founder and CEO of Moves for Seniors. “In 2020 and early 2021, our primary focus was on securing …
RALEIGH, N.C. — NIC MAP Vision, a provider of senior housing data and analytics, has partnered with financial analytics firm Trepp to improve the seniors housing industry’s access to CMBS financial data. Through their partnership, Trepp’s data adds depth to a platform that provides demand and occupancy data for the seniors housing industry in the United States. The NIC MAP Vision platform combines supply-and-demand data, while Trepp collects and maintains standardized loan, deal and property-level financial data as part of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) disclosure …
BALTIMORE — Capital Funding Group (CFG), a Baltimore-based lender, has announced an expansion from long-term care into the multifamily and seniors housing sectors. To help run the new divisions, CFG has promoted Erik Howard to executive managing director of business development and marketing. During his 17-year career at CFG, Howard has been involved with the financing of more than $7 billion of healthcare and multifamily assets. With the move into seniors housing and apartments, Howard and CFG expect that amount to double in the next three years. Along with the …