ST. LOUIS — Chapters Living, a St. Louis-based assisted living operator, has hired Becky Kaufmann and Tyler Brady to its team. Kaufmann joins Chapters as the senior vice president of quality of life and memory support. With over 16 years of experience as a healthcare executive with an emphasis on senior living, Kaufmann will develop both the memory care programming and total quality management platforms. With over 13 years of financial analysis and strategy experience, Brady joins the company as senior vice president of strategic finance. He will lead the …
HOUSTON — CBRE has negotiated the sale of The Village at River Oaks, a Class A independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston. Harrison Street and Bridgewood Property Co. sold the asset to a fund affiliated with Blue Moon Capital Partners. The price and number of units were not disclosed. CBRE’s National Senior Housing team members John Sweeny, Aron Will, Garrett Sacco and Scott Bray represented the seller in the deal. CBRE National Senior Housing’s debt and structured finance team of Aron …
HATFIELD, SOUDERTON and LANSDALE, Pennsylvania — Ziegler has arranged $19 million in bond financing for Living Branches, a nonprofit seniors housing and affordable housing operator. Living Branches was founded in 2008 upon the merger of Dock Woods, a life plan community founded in 1981 in Lansdale, and Souderton Mennonite Homes, a life plan community in Souderton originally founded in 1917. The corporation also operates The Willows of Living Branches, a personal care community in Hatfield founded in 1942, and two HUD housing organizations located on the Dock Woods campus. The …
FRISCO, Texas — Ridgeline Management Co. has taken over operations of Parsons House of Frisco, renaming the property The Ridge at Frisco. The Ridge at Frisco is a three-story assisted living community that has served the Frisco area since 2001. The Ridge at Frisco is the fourth community added to the Ridgeline’s portfolio in recent months. It joins The Peaks at Millcreek in Salt Lake City; The Ridge at Oregon City in Oregon City, Oregon; and Ridge at The Stratford in Phoenix. These communities are a part of an aggressive …
TOLEDO, Ohio — Welltower (NYSE: WELL), the largest owner of seniors housing in the United States, has promoted Nikhil Chaudhri to executive vice president and chief investment officer and Ayesha Menon to executive vice president of wellness housing and development. Chaudhri previously served as co-head of U.S. investments. Since joining Welltower eight years ago as an associate, he has led many of the company’s most complex transactions. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BSE in computer science engineering from the University of Michigan. Menon drove the …
PHILADELPHIA — It is common to hear operators proudly profess that it’s their culture that allows them to be top employers in the seniors housing industry, helping to face the massive labor shortage within the sector. However, “culture” can be a nebulous word, and employee surveys show that what employees say makes for a good culture is far different from what the employers believe, according to Charles Turner, CEO of shift-filling software platform KARE. Turner, a former president of two operators in previous positions, didn’t pull punches regarding the overuse …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD), a Nasville-based company that is the largest operator of seniors housing in the country, has made a variety of changes to its corporate structure. Steven Swain, who serves as Brookdale’s chief financial officer, will leave the company on Feb. 24. Dawn Kussow, currently chief accounting officer, will replace Swain while continuing to serve in her current role. Meanwhile, Rick Wigginton was promoted to chief sales officer. Kevin Bowman, executive vice president of community operations, left the company on Jan. 12. Laura …
VIRGINIA — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has negotiated the sale of five seniors housing communities located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The properties total approximately 250 units. Three of the assets were constructed between 1997 and 2002, one was built in the early 1980s, and the last is a historic landmark dating back to 1916. A publicly traded REIT sold the assets to a family office experienced in turnaround projects. The price was not disclosed.
FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. — Acts Retirement-Life Communities, a nonprofit operator based in Fort Washington, has added James Glynn, Heinz Hegmann and Dr. Daniel Middlebrooks to its board of directors. Glynn is co-founder (now retired) of GlynnDevins, one of the leading technology-enabled marketing agencies serving the senior living category. He is a frequent presenter at national and state trade associations. He started in senior living in 1981 as the vice president of marketing at John Knox Village. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rockhurst University. Hegmann is a retired …
ALBUQUERQUE — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $51.8 million in construction financing for the development of Ativo of Albuquerque, a three-story, 144-unit senior living community in Albuquerque. JLL represented the borrower, Link Senior Development LLC, in securing the financing through an undisclosed lender. Once completed, Ativo of Albuquerque will offer a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care units ranging from studio to two-bedroom units. Situated on 6.5 acres, the community will be adjacent to a new ambulatory urgent care center and a medical office building. The community …