NEW YORK CITY — Seniors housing finance veterans Rick Shamberg, Greg Rush and Kari Schmidt have launched Scarp Ridge Capital Partners, a New York-based investor. Focused on value-add and opportunistic real estate, the company plans to invest in hospitality and healthcare with a heavy concentration of seniors housing. Launching with a $300 million fund, Scarp Ridge plans to acquire non-performing loans; create structured financing solutions including debt, mezzanine and preferred equity; and acquire direct ownership interests in assets and portfolios. “Scarp Ridge believes there will be opportunities to acquire distressed …
CINCINNATI — Northsiders Engaged in Sustainable Transformation (NEST) and Pennrose have broken ground on John Arthur Flats, Cincinnati’s first LGBTQ-friendly affordable senior housing community. Located in the city’s Northside neighborhood, the new development includes 57 affordable apartments and on-site supportive services. The community is slated for completion in the summer of 2022. The three-story, elevator-serviced building will include a mix of studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments for seniors earning 30 percent to 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). The community is located near the Northside business district, McKie …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CBRE Senior Housing has arranged an undisclosed amount of construction financing for The Village on Morehead, a seniors housing community in Charlotte. The borrower is a joint venture between Bridgewood Property Co. and Harrison Street. The 12-story, Class A development will feature 199 units of independent living, with assisted living services arranged by Bridgewood’s wholly owned management company, Retirement Center Management (RCM). The property sits on “an irreplaceable infill site between downtown Charlotte and the city’s most desirable neighborhoods,” according to CBRE. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and …
RURAL RETREAT, Va. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of Carrington Place at Rural Retreat, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in the western portion of Virginia, near the North Carolina and Tennessee borders. The property is a dually certified facility constructed in 2015. Census stabilized shortly after opening and the operator subsequently executed its below-market option to acquire the real estate. The operator then decided to exit and take advantage of Virginia’s red-hot acquisition market. The chosen buyer was an owner-operator based in the Northeast and …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Maxwell Group Inc., the Charlotte-based parent company of Senior Living Communities, Wellmore and Live Long Well Care, has promoted Blair Quasnitschka from executive director to the company’s vice president of operations. Quasnitschka will oversee, train and mentor executive directors and executive teams in Connecticut, Indiana, North Carolina and inland South Carolina. He joined the company in 2017 as the executive director at Evergreen Woods, a Maxwell Group property in North Branford, Connecticut. Prior to joining Maxwell Group/Senior Living Communities, he graduated from Springfield College with a bachelor’s …
CHICAGO — The Chicago City Council has given approval for the development of Bronzeville Lakefront, a $3.8 billion mixed-use project located in Bronzeville, a South Side neighborhood. Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, which closed in 2008, formerly occupied the 48-acre development site. The City of Chicago acquired the property in 2009 and cleared most of the land over the ensuing months. A team of local developers known as GRIT was selected to purchase the site for $96.9 million through a redevelopment agreement. GRIT comprises Farpoint Development, Loop Capital Management, …
NEWTON, Mass. — Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ: DHC) has entered into three new management agreements for 66 of its seniors housing communities totaling 4,084 units. Charter Senior Living will manage communities in Florida, Maryland, Tennessee and Virginia; Oaks-CaraVita Senior Care will manage communities in Georgia and South Carolina; and Phoenix Senior Living will manage communities in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina and South Carolina. These three agreements represent approximately 61 percent of DHC’s seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) communities to be transitioned from Five Star Senior Living Inc. (NASDAQ: …
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Birmingham, Alabama-based operator Atlas Senior Living has acquired both the real estate and operations of an assisted living and memory care community in St. Petersburg. The community will be the sixth Atlas property in Florida and the first in the St. Petersburg area. Previously named Bloom at St. Petersburg, the community will be rebranded and renamed The Goldton at St. Petersburg. Further details on the transaction were not disclosed.
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Watercrest Senior Living Group, a Vero Beach-based owner-operator, has hired Shannan Rhodes as sales specialist, supporting sales and marketing leadership for the seniors housing communities in Watercrest’s portfolio. As sales specialist for Watercrest, Rhodes utilizes her expertise in marketing strategy, partnership development and census management to drive the communities’ sales efforts and ensure successful openings for new Watercrest communities. Rhodes entered the senior living industry more than 20 years ago as community development director at an assisted living community in Tennessee. She advanced into census development …
WORCESTER, Mass. — Ziegler has arranged $85.5 million in bond financing for Ascentria Care Alliance, a Worcester-based skilled nursing operator. The bonds will support three of the borrower’s facilities: Quaboag Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Center in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, featuring 147 skilled nursing beds. Lutheran Home of Southbury (LHS) in Southbury, Connecticut, featuring 120 skilled nursing beds and 14 assisted living units. Lutheran Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Worcester, featuring 107 skilled nursing beds and 43 rest home care beds. Proceeds of the bonds issued through the National Finance …