5 Senior Living Operators to Watch in 2023

SHN reporters Nick Andrews and Austin Montgomery also contributed to this story. Fast growth in the face of headwinds, forward-thinking operating models, deep industry experience — these are just some of the traits of the senior living companies standing out in 2023. Though the industry is undergoing pain this year, these operators’ companies are blazing […]

Capri Communities Tests 4-Day Work Week With Promising Early Results 

Capri Communities is testing a four-day work week for frontline staff at one of its communities as senior living operators continue to search for creative staffing solutions Under the new staffing schedule, associates at the community, Village Pointe Commons in Grafton, Wisconsin, will work the equivalent of a four-day, 32-hour work week but get paid […]

How Capri Communities Paid $1 on Land for Its New $29M Community

Capri Communities’ newest community in Milwaukee’s historic Italian-American neighborhood cost $28.9 million — but the price tag on the land was just $1. St. Rita Square, a 118-unit building offering independent living, assisted living and memory care, opened in July 2020 and occupancy is currently at 70% and climbing, Founder and Principal Jim Tarantino told […]

Capri CFO Ferge: Scale, Unique Programs Help Us In Competition for Talent

Since Kristin Ferge joined Capri Senior Communities in 2016, she has helped lay the foundation for the company’s rapid growth through a mix of new development and acquisitions. Today, the Waukesha, Wisconsin-based company is the largest senior living developer and operator in the state by total number of units, according to 2018 rankings from industry […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Grandbridge, Lancaster Pollard

Grandbridge Facilitates Funding of $125 Million Seniors Housing Portfolio Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group recently facilitated the purchase of a $125 million seniors housing portfolio secured by four independent living seniors housing communities in four states. Funding for the assumption and supplemental loans was funded via Fannie Mae’s DUS® Seniors […]