WIMBERLEY, Texas — Civitas Senior Living has opened the doors on Alexis Pointe Senior Living in Wimberley, a small city between Austin and San Antonio. Totaling 55,000 square feet, the property features 10 independent living cottages, 49 assisted living apartments and 24 memory care suites. The community is located a quarter mile from the Wimberley Senior Center and a half mile from Wimberley Town Square. Civitas now owns and operates 40 seniors housing communities, with 15 more under development.
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Buckner Opens Assisted Living, Memory Care Units at Ventana High-Rise Project in Dallas
by Jeff Shaw
DALLAS — Buckner Senior Living has opened the assisted living and memory care units at Ventana by Buckner, a 301-unit high-rise seniors housing community in Dallas. The 189 independent living units opened in November 2019. The State of Texas granted the license for the 38 assisted living and 26 memory care apartments, and residents have begun moving in. Ventana is Dallas’ first and only luxury high-rise continuing care retirement community, according to Buckner. The property also features 48 skilled nursing apartments and 24 rehabilitation suites.
ROUND ROCK, Texas — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of Wyoming Springs, a 100-unit assisted living and memory care community in Round Rock, a suburb of Austin. One Liberty Properties Inc. (NYSE: OLP), a publicly traded REIT based in New York, sold the property for an undisclosed price. The buyer was a New York-based private equity fund looking to expand its seniors housing presence. Wyoming Springs was the only seniors housing asset in One Liberty’s portfolio and was being operated by Senior Care Centers LLC, which …
SUGAR LAND, Texas — CBRE has arranged a $28.2 million bridge loan to refinance debt on Overture Sugar Land, a 200-unit active adult community in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land. The borrower is Greystar Development, which launched the Overture brand in 2013. There are now 29 Overture-branded active adult properties totaling over 7,500 units in the United States. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged the non-recourse, floating-rate loan with 18 months of interest-only payments. The transaction was made through MF1 Capital, which …
SAN ANTONIO — The Ensign Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ENSG) has acquired the real estate and operations of The Healthcare Center at Patriot Heights, a seniors housing campus in San Antonio. The property features 59 skilled nursing beds and 158 independent living units. The seller and price were not disclosed. This acquisition brings Ensign’s portfolio to 214 skilled nursing operations, 23 of which also include assisted living, across 13 states. Ensign owns the real estate at 90 of those properties.
SPRING, Texas — Frontier Management has broken ground on The Landing at Augusta Woods, a 120-unit seniors housing community in Spring, a northern suburb of Houston. The property, which will include 75 units for independent living and 45 assisted living units, is set to open in early 2021. The project team includes general contractor Regent Construction, architect Jeffrey DeMure & Associates and construction lender UCB. Frontier Management will operate Landing at Augusta Woods, joining the more than 100 seniors housing communities in its management portfolio.
AUSTIN, Texas — Senior Resource Group (SRG) has opened Maravilla at The Domain, the company’s first community in Texas. The project is located in the heart of the residential area of The Domain, a high-density mixed-use development in the North Burnet neighborhood of Austin. The community comprises an 11-story south tower, six-story central tower and seven-story north tower, with subterranean parking, courtyards and a swimming pool. Capitalizing on The Domain’s live-work-play environment, the 370,000 square-foot development offers 144 independent living, 54 assisted living and 34 memory care units. Residents have …
TEXARKANA, Texas — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of Christian Care Center of Texarkana, a 114-bed skilled nursing facility in Texarkana. A public REIT sold the property to a regional provider for an undisclosed sum. Originally constructed in 1972, Christian Care Center of Texarkana was designed with three resident wings to offer rehabilitation, skilled nursing, cognitive care and long-term care. In recent years, overall census and quality mix declined, leading the operator to temporarily close one of the resident wings for efficiency and expense management purposes. …
DALLAS, GREENVILLE, S.C. and SANTA FE, N.M. — Dallas-based architecture firm “three” has completed design work on three seniors housing communities — expansions in Dallas and Greenville, and a ground-up development in Santa Fe. Locally, three is leading a $35 million repositioning effort for Presbyterian Village North, owned and operated by nonprofit Presbyterian Communities and Services. The project will add 112 independent living units and a 30,000-square-foot commons building at the campus core. In South Carolina, for the single-site Woodlands at Furman community in Greenville, the firm designed a $19 million …
AUSTIN, Texas — AMTEX Multi-Housing LLC has received financing and started construction of Limestone Ridge Senior Apartments, an affordable seniors housing community in Austin. The property will feature 223 one- and two-bedroom units, plus two apartments for on-site managers. Units are reserved for those over age 55 making up to 60 percent of the area median income (AMI), which is $45,420 annually for a two-person household. The community will also feature a one-story clubhouse and will have 405 surface parking spaces, or 1.8 spaces per unit. Social services will be …