WIMBERLEY, Texas — Civitas Senior Living has opened the doors on Alexis Pointe Senior Living in Wimberley, a small city between Austin and San Antonio. Totaling 55,000 square feet, the property features 10 independent living cottages, 49 assisted living apartments and 24 memory care suites. The community is located a quarter mile from the Wimberley Senior Center and a half mile from Wimberley Town Square. Civitas now owns and operates 40 seniors housing communities, with 15 more under development.
Development
ELGIN, Ill. — New Perspective Senior Living has unveiled plans for New Perspective – Elgin, a seniors housing community in Elgin, approximately 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. The four-story structure will offer independent living, assisted living and memory care. The number of units was not disclosed.
UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio — HJ Sims has arranged a total of $55 million in bond financing for First Community Village, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Upper Arlington, a suburb of Columbus. National Church Residences manages the community. The bonds will be used to fund an independent living expansion at the property, called The Fairfax Project. The Fairfax Project includes the demolition of 30 existing independent living units, and construction of a four-story independent living building totaling 70 units. The expansion will also add a heated underground parking garage.
Phoenix Senior Living, Whitehall Development Group Building 43-Unit Community in South Carolina
by Jeff Shaw
CAMDEN, S.C. — Phoenix Senior Living has formed a joint venture with Whitehall Development Group to construct The Colonial at Old Camden. The community will feature 43 units of assisted living and memory care in a 31,000-square-foot building. Camden is located approximately 35 miles northeast of Columbia. Construction is nearly complete, with residents expected to start moving in in March.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — BB&T Capital Markets has closed on $70.2 million in bond financing to fund the expansion of Clark Retirement Community’s Keller Lake campus in Grand Rapids. The financing consists of $64.5 million in tax-exempt bonds and $5.7 million in taxable bonds, all at a fixed rate. The Keller Lake expansion is currently under construction. The project will add 53 independent living units to the community to the continuing care retirement community. Upon completion, Clark Retirement Community’s two campuses will total 185 independent living units, 230 assisted living …
LOS ANGELES — South Bay Partners, through a joint venture with LAMB Properties and Columbia Pacific Advisors, has started construction of The Variel in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. The eight-story, mid-rise building will feature 215 independent living units, 94 assisted living units and 27 memory care units. The leasing office is scheduled to open this fall, with occupancy planned for winter of 2021. VTBS Architects and Rodrigo Vargas Design are the design team for the project. W.E. O’Neil Construction will serve as general contractor. West Bay Senior …
Resort Lifestyle Communities Plans Groundbreaking for $30M Independent Living Community Near Salt Lake City
by Jeff Shaw
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — Resort Lifestyle Communities (RLC) plans to break ground Wednesday, Feb. 19, on South Jordan View, an independent living community in South Jordan, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Units will be available in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom options. The community will total 180,000 square feet and development costs are estimated at $30 million. The total number of units and timeline for completion were not released.
Resort Lifestyle Communities Opens Deerfield Springs Independent Living Near Cincinnati
by Jeff Shaw
LOVELAND, Ohio. — Resort Lifestyle Communities has opened Deerfield Springs, an independent living community in the Cincinnati suburb of Loveland. The property features 128 apartments in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. “From our research, we found that Cincinnati’s metro was in great need of additional independent senior living options,” says Phil Benjamson, COO of Resort Lifestyle Communities.
Ziegler Closes $108.8M Bond Financing for Phase II of St. Ann’s Home Renovations in Rochester, New York
by Jeff Shaw
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Ziegler, a specialty investment bank, has closed $108.8 million in bond financing for continued renovations at St. Ann’s Home in Rochester. St. Ann’s Community operates the community, along with four others. Phase I of the master-planned project is complete, which relocated 34 post-acute rehabilitation beds from the Wegman Care Center to the ninth floor of St. Ann’s Home, the largest of the company’s skilled nursing facilities. The new bond financing will fund Phase II of the project, which will renovate floors three through eight of St. Ann’s …
TORRANCE, Calif. — Oakmont Senior Living has opened a marketing information center at Oakmont of Torrance, the company’s seniors housing development in Torrance, just south of Los Angeles. Set to open this spring, Oakmont of Torrance will offer 55 assisted living and 32 memory care units in a 106,613-square-foot building situated on two acres.