NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — Dwight Mortgage Trust, the mortgage REIT affiliate of Dwight Capital, has provided a $27.3 million bridge acquisition loan for Beachside Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare. The 239-bed skilled nursing facility is located in New Smyrna Beach, a coastal suburb of Orlando. The facility offers its residents short- and long-term care. The loan has a 30-month term. Its proceeds will be used towards capital expenditures and the acquisition. Josh Sturm originated this closing. The names of the buyer and seller were not disclosed.
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — ANF Group Inc. and Providence One Partners have broken ground on Providence Living at Pembroke Pines, an assisted living and memory care community in the Miami suburb of Pembroke Pines. The two-story, 114,003-square-foot property is located on 3.2 acres near Pembroke Pines City Center.and will feature 117 units, totaling 121 beds. ANF will handle construction, while Providence One will be the operator upon completion. The project is scheduled to open in fourth-quarter 2023.
MIAMI — A joint venture between Miami-based Integra Investments and nonprofit Elderly Housing Development & Operations Corp. (EHDOC) has completed Mosaico, a $58 million affordable housing community in Miami. The 13-story property will span 271 apartments reserved for households with citizens aged 62 years and older. Located in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, Mosaico features 179 one-bedroom units and 92 studios and townhomes. CC Hodgson Architectural Group designed the project. Integra Investments and EHDOC worked alongside HUD, the Housing Finance Authority of Miami-Dade County, City of Miami and Miami-Dade Public Housing & …
ORLANDO, Fla. — Wendover Housing Partners and the government of Orange County, Florida, have opened Hawthorne Park, an affordable seniors housing community in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Orlando. Hawthorne Park replaces a portion of an underutilized shopping center. The 120-unit community is designed for residents 55 and older meeting income requirements. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) 2022 GAP report, the Orlando metro area only has 18 affordable and available homes per 100 extremely low-income renters. A recent study conducted at the request of the Orange …
PORT ORANGE, Fla. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has negotiated the sale of a 54-unit memory care community in Port Orange, a coastal city in Central Florida. The seller was a private REIT looking to exit an operational outlier from a previous portfolio. The buyer is a growing regional owner-operator expanding its presence in Florida. The price was not disclosed. Bradley Clousing and Daniel Geraghty handled the transaction for SLIB.
VENICE, Fla. — Convivial Life Inc. has acquired Jacaranda Trace, a seniors housing community featuring 240 independent living and 55 assisted living/memory care units in Venice. The seller was Venice Florida Senior Holdings LLC. The price was not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, Convivial also purchased an 85,000-square-foot clubhouse featuring a fitness center; heated outdoor pool and hot tub; on-site doctor’s clinic; multiple dining venues; billiards and activity rooms; woodworking shop; and library. Convivial is already working on expansion plans at the 33-acre community. LifeStar Living arranged the transaction …
MIAMI — Drive Development Partners, a boutique development advisory and construction management firm, has merged with Lloyd Jones, a real estate investment firm. Both companies are headquartered in Miami. Drive, which specializes in senior living and multifamily developments, matches Lloyd Jones’ current $1 billion portfolio which consists primarily of those two asset types. Drive’s managing partner in Florida, Michael Hass, will assume the role of senior vice president of development, design and construction at Lloyd Jones. The company currently has one ground-up senior living development under construction in Florida and …
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — John Knox Village of Florida (JKV), a continuing care retirement community in the South Florida city of Pompano Beach, has broken ground on Westlake, a two-tower, $120 million expansion. The groundbreaking comes on the heels of the completion of The Pavilion, a $35 million addition that included a 380-seat cultural arts center, two restaurants and a bar. “Over the past five years, a master site plan has been developed to guide the capital improvements of our 70-acre campus and the opening of our Pavilion and, in …
PHOENIX, ORLANDO and CHICAGO — The Walker & Dunlop seniors housing team has arranged three acquisitions with three different institutional partners. The transactions totaled over $150 million across 419 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The assets are located in the Phoenix, Orlando and Chicago metro area. Walker & Dunlop’s Tony Cassie and Sam Thompson provided advisory services and facilitated the Arizona sale, while Brett Gardner, Joshua Jandris and Mark Myers provided advisory services and facilitated the Florida and Illinois sales.
MELBOURNE, Fla. — Blake Management Group and Cardinal Ventures Inc. have hired Misty Zulli as executive director and Reetu Haave as sales director at The Blake of Viera, a senior living community in Melbourne,. Cardinal Ventures is building the 86,000-square-foot assisted living and memory care community with 97 units. Zulli has worked in senior living for 14 years in various positions, from floor nurse to spending the past three years as an executive director during the height of the pandemic. Reetu attended George Washington University for both undergraduate and graduate …