CHARLESTOWN, Mass. — MassHousing has provided $31 million in financing for City Square Elderly Housing, a 120-unit affordable seniors housing complex in Charlestown, a northern suburb of Boston. The complex was originally constructed in 1900 and renovated in 1985. Units come in studio and one-bedroom floor plans. The borrower, CSI Support & Development Services, will use the proceeds to refinance existing debt, fund capital improvements and preserve the property’s affordability status. The loan carried a 35-year term and a fixed interest rate.
Bridges Appoints Edmund Tucker as Executive Director of Bridges by EPOCH at Mashpee in Massachusetts
MASHPEE, Mass. — Bridges by EPOCH has appointed Edmund Tucker as executive director of Bridges by EPOCH at Mashpee, memory care and assisted living community in Mashpee, located on Cape Cod. Tucker has extensive leadership experience in hospitality and senior living. He began his career in hotel management, serving in leadership positions in hotel operations as well as food and beverage services. He most recently served as an executive director of a senior living community in the greater Boston area, where he oversaw 58 independent living, 38 assisted living and …
LOWELL, Mass. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of a 90-bed skilled nursing facility in Lowell, a northern suburb of Boston. Located within relatively close proximity to Lowell General Hospital, which accounts for approximately 1,300 skilled nursing discharges annually, the facility had historically maintained stable census levels with a steady stream of referrals and admissions, according to Blueprint. The regional buyer plans to focus on operational efficiencies, including addressing staffing challenges, as well as investing into capital projects at the facility. The seller, price and name …
BOSTON — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of Advocate Healthcare of East Boston, located across the harbor from downtown Boston. The 165-bed, five-story skilled nursing facility, originally constructed in 1952 and expanded in 1965, has been a fixture in the Orient Heights neighborhood of East Boston for decades, according to Blueprint. The exiting owner-operator invested in a substantial renovation of the adult day care services wing as well as general improvements throughout the facility. Additionally, the facility has received a Determination of Need (DON) approval for …
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — Live Give Play and Spiritos Properties have announced plans for 79 King Street, an active adult community in Northampton, a suburb of Springfield. The property is located downtown on a walk/bike path and steps from Smith College. The 70-unit community is designed to achieve Passive House certification. The building rises five stories and totals 110,000 square feet. BKSK Architects is the designer. The developers plan to open the property in late 2024.
BOSTON — TD Bank has provided $22 million in construction financing to redevelop William Barton Rogers (WBR) Middle School in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston into 74 units of mixed-income seniors housing, with a focus on LGBTQ seniors. The WBR school is a historic and social landmark in Hyde Park, serving and educating the Hyde Park community for over a century. The building will be preserved and adapted for this new project, which will include the protection of the historic exterior facade as well as significant interior architectural elements …
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, …
LEXINGTON, Mass. — EPOCH Senior Living and National Development have opened Bridges by EPOCH at Lexington, a memory care community in the Boston suburb of Lexington. The community is located next to the Belmont Country Club and features three residential households, each consisting of 16 memory care suites. This opening marks the 11th Bridges standalone memory care community in New England for EPOCH Senior Living. EPOCH Senior Living also operates four luxury Waterstone Senior Living communities in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York.
BROCKTON, Mass. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of Connemara Senior Living, an 86-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Boston suburb of Brockton. The community was built in 1990. Elevation Financial Group acquired the property and plans to convert it to affordable seniors housing. The seller and price were not disclosed.
AUBURN, Mass. — Pennrose has opened Mary D. Stone Apartments, a 55-unit, mixed-income seniors housing community in Auburn, a suburb of Worcester. The project was the historic rehabilitation of a 1920s-era school building, including the demolition of later-built wings and the construction of a new addition. Mary D. Stone was designed to help address the widespread shortage of affordable housing in Massachusetts, where the National Low Income Housing Coalition estimates there are only 48 available affordable rental homes for every 100 low-income households. Eighty percent of the units at Mary …