TACOMA, Wash. — NorthMarq has arranged a $35 million refinancing for Weatherly Inn, an independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Tacoma. Developed in the mid-1990s, the community is family owned and operated. It features 136 units. Stuart Oswald, senior vice president and managing director of NorthMarq’s Seattle office, arranged the Freddie Mac financing with a 10-year term and 30-year amortization.
CHICAGO — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has launched a new capital markets practice, hiring Alex Flora to lead the new department as head of capital markets. The new practice seeks to provide creative debt and equity solutions including capital raising, capital structure advisory and capital markets consulting to the private-pay seniors housing industry. With a decade-long career in the seniors housing industry, Florea has background in capital markets, acquisitions and dispositions at REITs, operators and now a brokerage firm.
VALHALLA, N.Y. — HJ Sims has closed $30 million in financing for The Bethel Methodist Home and its continuing care retirement community The Knolls, located in Valhalla, approximately 25 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. The community, which opened in 2002 under the name Westchester Meadows, offers independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing services on one campus. In 2008, Westchester Meadows experienced financial difficulty, which culminated in a bankruptcy filing in 2015. The community was acquired in 2016 with the proceeds of tax-exempt and taxable bonds privately placed with a …
FRIDLEY, Minn. — Axial Real Estate Advisors, in partnership with United Properties and Ivy Properties, has received acquisition and development financing for Willows Bend Senior Living, a seniors housing project in Fridley, a northern suburb of Minneapolis. Willows Bend will be a 136-unit, four-story building with underground parking. Ebenezer Management Services, a division of Fairview Health System, will operate the community upon completion. Groundbreaking is scheduled for later this month, with an anticipated opening in summer 2022. The site, measuring 2.67 acres, is the former home of Fridley City Hall, …
NEW YORK CITY — Dwight Capital provided over $117.5 million in healthcare financing during fourth-quarter 2020. Featured among these transactions are loans for several properties within the Recover Care, The Laurels, and Landmark portfolios. Dwight closed $15 million in bridge and mezzanine financing for the acquisition of the Recover Care Kansas Portfolio, a 253-bed, three-asset assisted living and skilled nursing facility portfolio located across Kansas. Adam Sasouness originated this transaction. Sasouness also originated $13.95 million in bridge financing for the Laurels Portfolio, a 313-bed, three-asset assisted living and skilled nursing …
CHICAGO — KeyBank Real Estate Capital (KBREC) has provided Fannie Mae financing for a multistate portfolio of properties operated by Enlivant, a Chicago-based owner-operator. The loan provides long-term, nonrecourse debt. The Fannie Mae financing was completed in conjunction with KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s extension of revolving lines of credit to other properties operated by Enlivant. Charlie Shoop of Key’s Commercial Mortgage Group led the financing for Key. Tim Sylvain, Paul Di Vito and Patrick Gilbreath of Key’s Healthcare Finance Group originated and structured the balance sheet financing on behalf of …
HANOVER, Mass. — Cushman & Wakefield’s Senior Housing Capital Markets team has arranged a $29.8 million loan for the construction of Benchmark of Hanover, approximately 20 miles south of Boston. The borrower is a joint venture between Benchmark Senior Living and Iron Point Partners LLC. The property will feature 97 units of assisted living and memory care. The Cushman & Wakefield team involved in the transaction includes Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Sam Dylag, Jack Griffin and Joseph Carbone. “Hanover is a quintessential South Shore Boston suburb with excellent access to …
CHERRY HILL, VOORHEES and STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield’s Senior Housing Capital Markets team has arranged an undisclosed amount of financing for the acquisition of three seniors housing communities in New Jersey. The borrower is a joint venture between Harrison Street and LCB Senior Living. The communities, all under the Atria brand, total 263 units of assisted living and memory care. Two properties are located in the Philadelphia suburbs of Cherry Hill and Voorhees, while the third is in Stafford Township near the Jersey Shore. Cushman & Wakefield …
DALLAS, Ga. — Live Oak Bank has provided a $13 million loan for the construction of The Phoenix at Dallas, located approximately 30 miles northwest of Atlanta. Phoenix Senior Living is developing the 56-unit independent living project, which will consist of 14 quadplex cottages. The Phoenix at Dallas is Phase II of a three-phase campus build-out. The cottages, walking trails, pool, and cabana, will be built across a 15-acre parcel adjacent to the Pearl at Dallas, a memory care community also operated by Phoenix Senior Living. Ten additional acres of …
BROOKFIELD, Conn. — Live Oak Bank has provided a $24.9 million loan for the construction of an assisted living and memory care community in Brookfield, approximately midway between Hartford and New York City. Columbia Pacific Real Estate Fund III is the borrower. Situated on 4.1 acres, the community will feature 91 assisted living units and 36 memory care units in a 105,000-square-foot building. Leisure Care will be the operator upon opening.
