SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. — Spectrum Retirement Communities has opened Silver Glen Senior Living, a 180-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in South Elgin, approximately 35 miles west of Chicago. With COVID-19 restrictions and precautions still in place, the community is hosting a virtual and drive-by Grand Opening event on March 20. The first residents have already moved in.
NEW YORK CITY — New Senior Investment Group Inc. (NYSE: SNR) has elected Frances Aldrich Sevilla-Sacasa as an independent director to the company’s board of directors. “Frances, a seasoned financial services executive and experienced investor, will bring tremendous value to New Senior,” says Susan Givens, president and CEO of New Senior. “She joins the board with extensive experience in real estate, financial services and banking. In addition, her significant public company board expertise will bring additional depth.” Aldrich Sevilla-Sacasa is a private investor and was CEO of Banco Itaú International, …
TUCSON, Ariz. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Carlton Village Senior Care Community, an 80-bed assisted living community in Northwest Tucson. The community was built in 2018. The price of $5.6 million equates to $70,000 per bed. Alex Snyder and Hamid Panahi, seniors housing investment specialists in Marcus & Millichap’s Tucson office, represented the seller, a seniors housing developer. The buyer was a Tucson-based owner-operator. The community combines the scale of a large assisted living operation with the communal setting of high-acuity care homes, creating a quasi-campus …
OAK GROVE, La. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has brokered the sale of Carroll Nursing Home, located in Oak Grove, in the Northeast corner of Louisiana near the Arkansas border. The skilled nursing facility features 120 beds. It was originally built in 1960, with expansion and renovation projects in 1962, 1976 and 1987. A local family seeking to exit the industry sold the property to a Southeast-based regional owner-operator. The price was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Mortgage banking company Merchants Capital has closed a $51 million construction loan and a $28.4 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) to fund an affordable housing project in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The project, a redevelopment of the historic Park 79 Hotel, comprises the largest 9 percent LIHTC allocation in New York City history, according to Merchants. The borrower and project developer is Fairstead. Renovations to the original hotel, which first debuted in 1899 as “The Indiana,” will create 77 affordable residences for very-low-income seniors in the heart …
ORLANDO — Wendover Housing Partners has broken ground on Hawthorne Park, an affordable seniors housing community in Orlando’s Pine Hills neighborhood. The 120-unit development will replace a run-down shopping center and become the new anchor for the neighborhood’s town center. Hawthorne Park will serve as one of the key projects in the Pine Hills Neighborhood Improvement District – an initiative to revitalize the area and its working-class community of more than 60,000 residents. “The Pine Hills neighborhood has an enormous opportunity for revitalization and Hawthorne Park will be a great …
EUREKA, Mo. — St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System has broken ground on Summerville of St. Andrew’s, an active adult community in Eureka, approximately 30 miles southwest of St. Louis. The $23 million development is situated adjacent to its sister community, St. Andrew’s at Francis Place. The neighborhood-style development will feature 96 one- and two-bedroom units spread across 24 fourplex cottages. The “pocket neighborhoods,” each built around a central common space, will have front porches and walking paths that connect households. A neighborhood clubhouse and bar will offer communal dining …
PROSEPECT HEIGHTS, Ill. — Health Dimensions Group (HDG) has taken over the management, oversight, and repositioning of Brookdale Prospect Heights, while rebranding the property as Dimensions Living Prospect Heights. HDG provides management and oversight for 38 senior care and living communities in eight states, serving more than 2,000 residents and overseeing more than 2,000 team members.
CHICAGO — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has launched a new capital markets practice, hiring Alex Flora to lead the new department as head of capital markets. The new practice seeks to provide creative debt and equity solutions including capital raising, capital structure advisory and capital markets consulting to the private-pay seniors housing industry. With a decade-long career in the seniors housing industry, Florea has background in capital markets, acquisitions and dispositions at REITs, operators and now a brokerage firm.
DENVER — Enquire, a Denver-based software company offering cloud customer relationship management (CRM), marketing automation and contact center solutions for senior living communities, has hired Craig Riley as chief information security officer. Riley will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a comprehensive information security strategy and program to ensure that information assets and technologies are appropriately protected. In addition, he will ensure information security risks are identified, evaluated and mitigated; lead efforts to prevent and respond to security incidents; establish standards and controls; manage security technologies; and implement security policies …
