In The Pipeline: Atria Opens Second Coterie Luxury Community, $54M Renovation Planned by RSF Partners, FilBen Group 

In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting-edge design, excellence, and innovation in senior living. Construction: Planned After $140M expansion, Charlotte, North Carolina life plan community continues work The life plan community Southminster in the Charlotte, North Carolina metro area recently […]

Amazon Expands Alexa Smart Properties for Senior Living to UK, Parts of Europe

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is expanding its enterprise Alexa Smart Properties for Senior Living service to operators in the U.K. and parts of Europe. With the Nov. 23 announcement, the Seattle-based online services and retail giant is giving care providers and assisted living facilities in the U.K., France, Italy and Germany the ability to better manage […]

‘What We Have Been Waiting For’: Ventas Execs See Tides Turn on Senior Housing, Share Bullish Projections

Pricing power and demand indicate continued growth toward pre-Covid-19 senior housing margins for Ventas (NYSE: VTR), but with macroeconomic factors impacting the cost of operations, creating a timeline for that return is tricky. Still, leaders with the Chicago-based real estate investment trust (REIT) believe that the margin expansion seen in 3Q2022 is not a one-off […]

Senior Living Tech Platforms Glennis, Enquire, Sherpa to Combine with Private Equity Backing

Private equity firm Rubicon Technology Partners has purchased a controlling stake in three well-known senior living technology and data analytics companies in a move aimed at creating the industry’s first “comprehensive, scalable end-to-end software solution.” Glennis Solutions, the firm launched as a subsidiary of Atria Senior Living; Enquire and Sherpa CRM are joining forces under […]

‘Push the Envelope’: Architects Rethink Senior Living Design for the Boomers

Architects and designers are pushing the envelope of senior living design in an effort to meet the preferences of the incoming baby boomer generation. Though the bulk of the cohort is still years away from reaching average senior living age, companies are preparing now by reimagining the basic senior living community design with efficiency, resident […]

Leadership Shifts Set Up Senior Living Giants to Make Next Big Moves

At the start of 2022, I argued that senior living industry giants were facing a defining year. As we enter the fourth quarter, I anticipate that there are some big moves still to come from some of the largest operators in the sector — driven by new leaders at some companies, and driven at other […]

Perkins Eastman, Hord Coplan Macht, Ryan Cos. Top New Senior Living Design Firm Rankings

Perkins Eastman, Hord Coplan Macht and Ryan Companies’ architectural and engineering division Ryan A+E are the top three companies on a new list of 80 senior living architecture firms. Compiled by design and construction publication Building Design + Construction as part of its annual Giants 400 Report, the “Top 80 Senior Living Facility Architecture + […]

Transactions & Financings: Financing Secured for Atria’s Next Coterie Project; Northmarq Closes AL, IL Sale

Financings Related Companies, Atria Expand Luxury Coterie Pipeline Related California, part of Related Companies, announced $690 million in construction financing for a luxury residential development in Santa Clara, California that will include a senior living community. Otera Capital provided a $360 million construction loan for 509 luxury residences and PNC Bank provided a $130 million […]

In The Pipeline: Welltower, Atria Silicon Valley Project Advances; Commonwealth Senior Living Expands in Midwest

In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting-edge design, excellence, and innovation in senior living. Construction: Planned Welltower, Atria Senior Living luxury residences to see construction soon A plan to bring luxury senior living residences to Santa Clara, California by Welltower […]

New Largest Providers List Shows a Senior Living Industry in Flux

Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) is still the nation’s largest senior living operator — but others are catching up, as the industry is still rife with disruption, according to Argentum’s 2022 Largest Providers Report. The report, released Wednesday, was compiled in partnership with real estate finance firm Lument. It ranks U.S. senior living operators in […]