Transactions & Financings: Ziegler’s $184M Financing Deal Volume, Commonwealth Senior Living Acquires Virginia Community

Sales and operator transitions Commonwealth Senior Living acquires Virginia assisted living facility Commonwealth Senior Living acquired Cedar Manor Assisted Living, an assisted living facility in Chesapeake, Virginia including 60 assisted living beds and 12 memory care beds. The community will be rebranded as Commonwealth Senior Living at Cedar Manor. Immediately after the holiday season, the […]

Beyond ‘Knock-and-Drop’: Senior Living Culinary Teams Step Up To Pandemic Challenges

With almost six months of pandemic experience behind them, senior living providers have mastered some new ways of delivering on ambitious culinary programs, and are continuing to innovate as communities gradually reopen. Where providers have reopened dining venues, they are now more meticulous than perhaps ever before about managing the flow of human traffic to […]

Under Pressure, Providers Go Big on Ancillary Services

Amid pressing business challenges and a changing resident demographic, the senior living industry is increasingly seeking out additional avenues to come out on top, with ancillary services playing an ever-larger role. These additional amenities and clinical services encompass everything from massage therapy and salons to dermatology and X-rays, administered on site at senior living communities […]

In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (9/8/16)

(Rendering of The Sheridan at Laumeier Park, located in Sunset Hills, Mo.— Photo courtesy of Senior Lifestyle Corporation) Construction: Planned National Healthcare Development Plans Skilled Nursing Facility Located in Avondale, Arizona, a new transitional rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility will be built as part of a larger health care campus by National Healthcare Development. The […]

New Jersey CCRC to Launch $97 Million Expansion For Household Model

An existing New Jersey non-profit CCRC is pursuing nearly $100 million in financing for a renovation and expansion that will focus on repurposing its units to a household model of care.  Fellowship Senior Living in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, about 35 miles from New York City, has reportedly selected RBS Citizens Bank to lead a […]