ROCKY FORD, PAONIA and GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — Walker & Dunlop Inc. has arranged $16.4 million in financing for three skilled nursing facilities in Colorado. The borrower is Madison Creek Partners. The portfolio comprises Pioneer Health Care Center, a 29-unit facility in Rocky Ford; Paonia Care & Rehabilitation, a 28-unit facility in Paonia; and Glenwood Springs Health Care, a 29-unit facility in Glenwood Springs. Kevin Giusti led the origination team. The HUD loans will refinance existing debt. Renovated in 1964, Pioneer Health Care Center is the only Veterans Affairs-contracted facility …
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LITTLETON, Colo. — Anthem Memory Care has named Angie Erickson as executive director of Willowbrook Place, a memory care community in the Denver suburb of Littleton. Erickson previously worked for Leisure Care, serving as sales manager and general manager of Denver’s Carillon at Belleview Station. She has also been general manager of MacKenzie Place in Colorado Springs and Treeo, a senior living community in Utah.
DENVER — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of two skilled nursing facilities in the Denver metro area and a third in Eastern Colorado. The portfolio totals 250 skilled nursing beds, as well as 25 assisted living units. LTC Properties sold the assets as part of its plan to divest all its Preferred Care-branded communities. The buyer is a private private company looking to expand its presence in Colorado, as well as its relationships with its third-party operators in the state. The price was not disclosed.
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Evans Senior Investments (ESI) has arranged the sale of Lakewood Memory Care, a 46-unit memory care facility, for $8.5 million, or $185,000 per unit. Located 10 miles south of downtown Denver in Lakewood, the facility totals 52 beds. The property was built in 2016 and is 100 percent private pay. It was 75 percent occupied at the time of sale. ESI represented the seller in the transaction, an independent investor group that had partnered with a national operator. This was the investor group’s only seniors housing asset. …
GREELEY, Colo. — Live Oak Bank has provided an $8.1 million loan for Greeley Village, a 71-unit assisted living and memory care community in Greeley, approximately 50 miles north of Denver. The borrower is KSL Seniors, a developer/owner with communities in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Oregon. The 51,000-square-foot community opened during in fourth-quarter 2019. Cadence Senior Living operates the property. The three- to five-year, floating-rate loan refinanced a construction line of credit, providing a bridge-to-permanent financing solution. It also allowed the borrower to recapture a line of credit capacity to …
LITTLETON, Colo. — Resort Lifestyle Communities has opened Sky Pointe, an independent living community in the Denver suburb of Littleton. Sky Pointe offers 128 apartments for rent in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom options. “From our research, we found that Denver’s metro was in great need of additional independent senior living options,” says Phil Benjamson, COO of Resort Lifestyle Communities. Based in Lincoln, Neb., Resort Lifestyle Communities has 45 independent living communities either open or under construction throughout the country.
GREELEY, Colo. — OZ Architecture has completed design work on WellAge Greeley, a 71,000-square-foot senior living community in Greeley, approximately 55 miles north of Denver. Rocky Mountain Senior Housing is developing the 92-unit community, which WellAge will operate. The property sits on 3.5 acres and will offer independent living, assisted living and memory care. The community is scheduled to open in second-quarter 2020.
MONUMENT, Colo. — WellAge has named Dena Mackey as executive director of Jackson Creek Senior Living, a 137-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Monument, located between Denver and Colorado Springs. Mackey has more than 16 years’ experience in the senior living industry. She started her career as a certified nursing assistant in an memory care unit and eventually worked at Poudre Valley Hospital on the medical floor and in the operating room. Mackey has also worked as an assisted living director, memory care director and hospice …
NEW YORK CITY — New York-based Meridian Capital Group’s seniors housing and healthcare team has arranged $60 million in financing for two portfolios of memory care assets across Ohio, Georgia, South Carolina, Colorado, California and Tennessee. Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson of Meridian negotiated the two transactions, which will refinance existing debt on the properties. In the first transaction, Meridian arranged $27.5 million for four memory care facilities totaling 264 beds in Ohio and Georgia. The five-year loan features a fixed rate and limited personal guarantees. In the …