Arveda Assisted Living Residences in Texas Completed

Arveda Alzheimer’s Family Care, LLC, an Austin-based company that specializes in operating assisted-living residences, announces that its Buda and Austin residences are near completion and are now accepting reservations.  The Buda and Austin residences will offer the most attentive and state-of-the-art care available in the Austin area. They will follow the “social model” of care, […]

AMC Delancey Launches Delancey Senior Living

AMC Delancey Group, Inc., a leading national real estate investment and development firm, today announced the formation of Delancey Senior Living, an affiliated company launched for the purpose of pursuing development and investment opportunities in the senior housing sector. Delancey Senior Living, an AMC Delancey Group company, is actively seeking land within 100 miles of […]

Ecumen Expands in Minnesota with Alzheimer’s Care Center

Aging services provider Ecumen, one of the country’s largest non-profit senior housing companies, has broken ground on a new senior living development in Apple Valley for people living with the challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia. The $3.7 million memory care expansion at The Centennial House of Apple Valley, located at 14625 Pennock Avenue, is […]

City of Chicago Breaks Ground for Senior Suites of Kelvyn Park

Chicago Housing Commissioner Ellen Sahli recently joined Ald. Ray Suarez (31st) other City officials and members of Senior Lifestyle Corporation to officially break ground for Senior Suites of Kelvyn Park, a new $20.1 million affordable rental complex for seniors.  The ceremony marked the start of construction for a proposed 85-unit development, which will be built […]

New England Retirement Community Makes Moves to Solar Energy

The residents of Essex Meadows in Connecticut are making a bold ‘green’ statement by planning on installing solar panels in their facility to offset the costs of rising energy besides being a environmentally friendly retirement community.  Essex Meadows’ list of environmental amenities includes geothermal heating and cooling, native-plant meadows instead of lawns, and an environmental […]

HCP Places $319 Million of Secured Financing

HCP (NYSE:HCP) announced that it has placed $140 million of 5-year secured debt on four of its senior housing assets and $179 million of 8-year secured debt on 12 of its senior housing assets. The assets are cross- collateralized and the debt has a weighted average interest rate of 6.39%. Fannie Mae purchased the secured […]

TheStreet.com – Senior Housing Not Affected By Credit Crunch?

TheStreet.com posted a video interview with Granger Cobb, CEO of Emeritus Corp. and he tries to explain why he thinks the senior housing business is ignoring the market’s turmoil.  The piece discusses that Emeritus is  only down 5% this year, which is better than the broader market.  Cobb states that moves by seniors into their […]