CHICAGO — Partner Valuation Advisors, a Chicago-based national commercial real estate valuation advisory firm, has expanded its seniors housing team with the hiring of seven professionals. The new additions are spread across five states and include Shawn-James O’Connor, executive vice president; Patrick McCrae, director; Andrea Roberts, director; Bradley Grossa, director; Allison Stavinoha, director; Karlie Guta, senior vice president; and Jacob Sandler, associate. O’Connor brings over 23 years of expertise in seniors housing and health care. Throughout his career, he has focused on valuation and consulting engagements encompassing a diverse range …
ST. JOHNS, Fla. — Quality Senior Living (QSL) has started construction of The Blake at St. Johns, an assisted living and memory care community in St. Johns, a southern suburb of Jacksonville. The community, which QSL Management will operate, features 70 assisted living apartments and 48 memory care apartments. Development costs are estimated at $35 million. The two-story, 115,000-square-foot building is designed around two landscaped interior courtyards. Arrive Architecture Group designed the project. The Blake at St. Johns is part of a planned development that includes St. Thérése, an early-learning …
NEWTON, Mass. — Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ: DHC), a Newton-based REIT, has announced that a non-monetary event of default has occurred under its $450 million credit facility. The facility requires DHC to maintain collateral properties with an aggregate appraised value of at least $1.09 billion. The facility allows the facility’s administrative agent to periodically reappraise the collateral properties. On June 23, the administrative agent notified DHC that the reappraised value of the 61 medical office and life sciences properties securing the facility had declined from $1.34 billion to $1.05 billion, …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA) has released a new report detailing the senior living priorities of the baby boomer generation, members of which will largely be the industry’s residents for the next 25 years. “In the years to come, many of the nation’s 76 million baby boomers will transition into seniors housing,” says David Schless, ASHA president and CEO. “It’s imperative that industry leaders understand the baby boomers’ expectations so they can meet their needs and position themselves for success.” The report — “Boomers and the …
NEW BALTIMORE, Mich. — Commonwealth Senior Living has completed a $6.5 million expansion of its community in New Baltimore, located near Anchor Bay approximately 30 miles northeast of Detroit. The renovations to Commonwealth Senior Living at New Baltimore included a two-story addition, enlarged common areas and a capacity for 23 additional residents in memory care and 45 in assisted living.
NEWARK, Del. — Life Care Services has named Kristopher Brown as executive director of Millcroft Living, a seniors housing community in Newark, located between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Brown 20 years of experience, starting as a caregiver. He earned a degree in health sciences with a minor in physics and then became a certified-dementia practitioner.
SHALIMAR, Fla. — Victory Village is slated to receive $2 million from Florida’s Framework for Freedom Budget for fiscal year 2023-24. The funding will be used to purchase 80 acres of land from the U.S. Air Force, which will be used to develop a military senior living community with resources and services for wounded warriors and their caregivers. Victory Village will be located adjacent to Air Force Enlisted Village (AFEV). Plans for the community include multiple neighborhoods for 800 people to reside, a community center, a multi-denominational chapel, a fitness …
PITTSBURGH — Tryko Partners has broken ground on Cedarwood Homes, an affordable seniors housing community in Pittsburgh’s West End neighborhood. In 2020, the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) named Tryko to lead a redevelopment at the former Fairywood School site. Key financing agencies have contributed to the project’s viability. This includes 9 percent Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) awarded by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency; and approximately $2.1 million in gap financing funding, along with 24 project-based Section 8 vouchers from Housing Authority City of Pittsburgh (HACP). The community will …
SKOKIE, Ill. — Presbyterian Homes, a Skokie-based operator, has named Shannon Gutierrez as chief operating officer. Gutierrez will provide operational oversight, including team building, development and technology implementation for the three CCRCs (Lake Forest Place, The Moorings of Arlington Heights and Westminster Place) and rental community (Ten Twenty Grove) Presbyterian Homes manages. Gutierrez brings more than 25 years of hands-on experience in the senior living industry and most recently served as national vice president of operations for Anthem Memory Care. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from the …
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Avanath Capital Management LLC has acquired Rivers Senior, a 120-unit affordable seniors housing community in West Sacramento, for $19 million. Constructed in 2008, Rivers Senior was built utilizing the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTCs) along with bond financing via multiple agencies. Additionally, the asset benefits from the State of California’s Welfare Tax Exemption. The community features 96 one-bedroom and 24 two-bedroom units, 60 of which are reserved for residents earning up to 50 percent of area median income (AMI) and 59 …