CARLSBAD, Calif. — Integral Senior Living, an operator based in Carlsbad, has been selected to manage five senior living communities in Utah and Southern California. The properties include: Escalante at Draper in Draper, Utah, owned by MedCore Partners. Meadow Gardens of Menlo Park in Menlo Park, Calif., owned by Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III. Vista Terrace of Belmont in Belmont, Calif., owned by Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III. The Palms at La Quinta Assisted Living and Memory Care in La Quinta, Calif., owned by Columbia Pacific Advisors. The Palms at Bonaventure Assisted …
JERICHO, N.Y. — Sydney Engel, founder of Jericho-based seniors housing developer Engel Burman, has died at the age of 98. Born in Brooklyn in 1923, Engel cared for his ailing father, during which time he started an insulation company, eventually expanding to include roofing, siding and oil burner conversions. Together with his first non-family business partner, Sol Henkind, Engel would further expand his business over the next 50 years, building nursing homes, office buildings and thousands of rental units throughout the New York-New Jersey metro area. In 1997, at the …
KEENE, N.H. — Covenant Living Communities and Services has agreed to acquire Hillside Village Keene, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Keene, just north of the Massachusetts border. Covenant is purchasing the community out of bankruptcy in a deal scheduled to close in early 2022. The price was not disclosed. Hillside Village opened in 2019 with 141 independent living units, 43 assisted living units, 18 assisted living/memory care units and 20 nursing care suites. Its ability to achieve a healthy occupancy was severely interrupted by a suspension of sales …
RICHMOND, Va. — Resort Lifestyle Communities (RLC) has opened Tuckahoe Pines Retirement Community, a seniors housing property in Richmond. Development costs were estimated at $30 million for the 180,000-square-foot community. Floor plans include studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom options. The type of care was not disclosed. This is the first RLC location in Virginia.
LOS ANGELES — Avenir Senior Living has opened Avenir Memory Care Westside, a memory care community in Los Angeles’ Westchester neighborhood. The community features 88 units using a specialized program that aligns residents who have similar cognitive abilities. “We call this the cognitive lifestyle,” says Jason Gurash, vice president of sales and marketing for Avenir Senior Living. “Taking it a step further, every neighborhood is intentionally designed to look exactly the same. That way, everything is familiar. Residents feel comfortable and at home even if they need to move to …
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — Greystar has been awarded management of Album Indian Lake in the Nashville suburb of Hendersonville. Avenida is currently developing the property. “Album Indian Lake is an active adult community, providing an active lifestyle for likeminded adults in a similar life stage; this doesn’t exist in Hendersonville currently,” says Ally Hackney, senior regional property manager. “There is a need for this type of housing as we see more and more active adults looking to right-size their living environment, live a maintenance-free lifestyle and meet new friends within a …
SUMMERVILLE, S.C., and MCCOMB, Miss. — Claiborne Senior Living has hired Candy Cure as the executive director of The Claiborne at Brickyard Crossing, a new 142-unit seniors housing community set to open in mid-2022 in Summerville. Cure comes to Claiborne from a stint as senior executive director at Harmony Senior Services in Charleston. Joining Cure at Brickyard as community relations director is Teresa Hamlett. Hamlett previously served as director of sales and marketing at two other communities in the greater Charleston area. Meanwhile, Randall Wilson has assumed the role of …
Implementing technology is a tricky proposition for seniors housing operators. Will the return justify the expense? Will staff learn and use the technology? Will residents use it and like it? Perhaps most importantly, will it drive more efficiency and allow fewer employees to do more during a labor crisis? If a purchase is to be worthwhile, the answer to all of those questions should be “yes.” That was the message of panelists on a recent webinar entitled “Rethinking Seniors Housing Resident Engagement — Technology that Improves Staff Efficiencies while Enhancing …
MCKINNEY, Texas — Architecture firm Three has completed design and started construction of Touchmark at Emerald Lake, a seniors housing community in the northern Dallas suburb of McKinney. Located on 81 acres, the community will be built in two phases. The first phase will feature 149 independent living apartments, six casitas (duplex residences), 84 assisted living and 32 memory care residences. Thirty-two of the assisted living homes will be studios offering a smaller neighborhood environment and higher resident-to-staff ratio. A future phase will add a health and fitness center with …
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ziegler has arranged $16.6 million in bond financing for Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a nonprofit continuing care retirement community in Gainesville. The community sits on an approximately 135-acre campus and consists of 269 independent living units, 46 assisted living units, 24 memory care units and 73 skilled nursing beds. The proceeds of the bonds will be used to refinance outstanding 2017 debt and finance approximately $1.9 million of capital expenditures. The 2021 bonds will be followed by the $39 million in bonds scheduled for …