PASADENA, Calif. — MorningStar Senior Living has reopened its 144-unit Pasadena community. Soon after assuming management in December 2020, MorningStar, a Denver-based senior living owner and operator, began a complete renovation of the four-story community. “The extensive renovation of MorningStar…
SUNRISE, Fla. — Capital Funding Group has provided a $27.2 million construction loan for the conversion of a partially completed hotel in South Florida to a 191-unit assisted living community. The property is located at 3003 N. University Drive in…
STOW, Mass. — Massachusetts-based developer Habitech Acquisitions has acquired 37.3 acres in Stow, about 30 miles west of Boston, with plans to construct a 141-unit active adult community. Known as The Cottages at Wandering Pond, the project will feature a…
HOUSTON — Ziegler has arranged $76 million in bond financing for Brazos Presbyterian Homes (BPH), a nonprofit owner-operator based in Houston. The tax-exempt, draw-down bonds are supported by a three-bank syndicate comprised of Amegy Bank, Hancock Whitney and Trustmark. BPH…
NOKOMIS, Fla. — Atlas Senior Living has opened The Goldton at Venice, an independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Nokomis. The property is located near Calusa Lakes Golf Club and Mission Valley Country Club, as well as…
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. — Project partners MorningStar Senior Living, Confluent Senior Living and Concord Development Partners have completed MorningStar of Mission Viejo. The 166,000-square-foot, 132-unit senior living community is located in the Orange County city of Mission Viejo. The developers…
NEWTON, Mass. — Benchmark Senior Living has planned a $13 million renovation project at Evans Park at Newton Corner in the Boston suburb of Newton. The project will modernize the 30-year-old assisted living and memory care community. It is scheduled…
LIVINGSTON, N.J. — Sunrise Senior Living has opened the doors on Sunrise of Livingston in Livingston, approximately 20 miles west of Manhattan. The three-story property totals 86,000 square feet of space for assisted living and memory care. Although the number…
BRADENTON Fla. — Lincoln Avenue Capital (LAC) has broken ground on the 301 Flats and The Savoy at 301 in Bradenton, south of Tampa. Upon completion in 2025, the 301 Flats and The Savoy at 301 will provide 324 units…
CHICAGO — Woodlawn Central LLC is moving forward with the development of Woodlawn Central, an $895 million mixed-use project spanning eight acres in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. The development team recently hired Transwestern Real Estate Services as its commercial real estate…
SHORT PUMP, Va. — Erickson Senior Living has planned two new independent living buildings at Avery Point, a continuing care retirement community in Short Pump. Stafford Glen opened in February, and Langham Terrace will follow this summer. Stafford Glen and…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Housing Trust Group (HTG) and Mount Hermon African Methodist Episcopal Church Inc. have broken ground on Mount Hermon Apartments, an affordable seniors housing community in Fort Lauderdale. Development costs are estimated at $43.5 million for the…
IRVINE, Calif. — Harbert South Bay Partners has released plans for The James, a 350-unit, eight-story seniors housing community in the Orange County city of Irvine. The site is walkable to Irvine-Tustin’s vibrant shopping area, The District at Tustin Legacy.…
NEWTON, Mass. — 2Life Communities has broken ground on Opus Newton, a middle-income senior living development in Newton, just west of Boston. The groundbreaking takes place a year ahead of schedule, with 95 percent of the 174 available apartments already…
CUTLER BAY, Fla. — General contractor ANF Group Inc has broken ground on Sol Vista, a 227-unit affordable seniors housing community in Cutler Bay, approximately 20 miles south of downtown Miami. MRK Partners and Cypress Equity Investments are co-developers on…
MILLVILLE, EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP and HAMMONTON, N.J. — New Standard Senior Living has completed development of three Medicaid-focused assisted living communities in South Jersey. All three communities feature individual (single-occupant-only) studio apartment-style residences. The Millville community offers 154 units while…
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Sunrise Senior Living has broken ground on its first community in metro Miami, Sunrise of Coral Gables. The 94-unit building is slated to rise six stories and total 90,000 square feet. Opening is scheduled for 2024.…
By Mary Johannesen, Principal, Thriven Design COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed the way we live, work, play and function within our communities. Although a sense of normalcy has returned to daily life, the ramifications from the pandemic and subsequent lifestyle changes…
NEW ORLEANS — Liberty Senior Living has opened The Carrollton, a seniors housing adaptive reuse of a former courthouse in New Orleans. The community features 73 assisted living and 20 memory care units. The project renovated 16,000 existing square feet,…
Developers look to capitalize on the 73 million baby boomers who are now seniors. By R.J. DeBee III Baby boomers, the generation that started the rebellious youth movement in the 1960s, are still shaking up American society. They represent a…
Through value-add acquisitions and ground-up developments, new owner-operator is a big believer in the power of collaboration. By Jeff Shaw For a company that’s less than two years old, Distinctive Living has grown quickly. Launched in 2021, Distinctive currently operates…
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Ziegler has arranged $29 million in bond financing for Ensō Verde, a seniors housing currently under development in Simi Valley. The borrower is Kendal Corp., which began developing the continuing care retirement community in 2022. Locate…
BOSTON — Beacon Communities, a developer in the affordable, market-rate and mixed-income property space, including seniors housing, has hired Justin Babineaux as associate general counsel of property management. Most recently, Babineaux served as staff attorney at Columbia Residential, where he…
HILO, Hawaii — EAH Housing has broken ground on Hale Nā Koa ‘O Hanakahi, an affordable seniors housing community for veterans in Hilo, located on the east coast of the “Big Island” of Hawaii. Development costs are estimated at $58…
WOBURN, Mass. — Life Care Services (LCS) has announced a summer 2023 opening for The Delaney at The Vale, an independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Boston suburb of Woburn. Boston-based architect DiMella Shaffer designed the…
SHREWSBERRY, Mo. — Spellman Brady & Co. has completed the interior design for the addition to Our Mother of Perpetual Help Memory Care on the Cardinal Ritter Senior Service’s Shrewsberry campus. The single-story memory care addition has two wings consisting…
CHICAGO — Design firm Perkins Eastman has hired Drew Roskos as an associate principal in its Chicago studio. With 19 years of experience, Roskos specializes in the design of senior living communities. He has received the American Institute of Architects…