Movers & Shakers: Blueprint’s New CEO, HRA Appoints COO

Blueprint Names First President and CEO Chicago-based advisory group Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors recently named Torey Riso as its first president and CEO, according to a press release. Riso, who has 25 years of real estate investment experience including 10 spent in the senior housing industry, was most recently president and CEO of Care Investment […]

In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (1/18/18)

In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards. Sign up for the SHN Architecture & Design Newsletter from SHN for updates on architecture and design trends, the annual SHN Awards Competition. Construction: Planned Life Care Services to Renovate Six Newly Acquired Communities in Dallas Life Care Services, […]

Senior Housing Transactions: CBRE, MBK Senior Living

Golden West Senior Living Sells Community to Chicago Investors Golden West Senior Living has announced the sale of Flatirons Terrace, a 54-unit independent living community in Boulder, Colorado, to Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, a private equity firm based in Chicago. Dial Retirement Communities, of Omaha, Nebraska, will operate the community. Financial terms of the […]

In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (7/6/17)

Construction: Planned Former National Guard Armory in Pennsylvania to Become Senior Housing The new owners of a former National Guard armory in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, seek to turn the historic building into a senior living community. As planned, Z&Z Limited Partnership would build nearly 50 senior homes on the same site as the armory, according to the Daily […]

Movers & Shakers: Holiday Hires New Senior VP of Sales

Holiday Retirement Welcomes New Senior VP of Sales Holiday Retirement welcomed Rick Wigginton as the company’s new senior vice president of sales. Wigginton has more than 25 years of executive experience in direct sales and sales management. Before joining Holiday, he worked at Atria Senior Living, where he served as senior vice president of sales, […]

In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (8/25/16)

(Rendering of Market Street Memory Care Residence, located in Palm Coast, Fla. — Photo courtesy of Watercrest Senior Living Group) Construction: Planned Development Announced for Memory Care Communities Market Street Memory Care Residences, located in Palm Coast, Fla., will break ground in December. The community, owned and operated by Watercrest Senior Living Group, will be 46,000 square feet […]

Movers & Shakers: Executive Director Appointments

Covenant Village of Colorado Selects Executive Director Covenant Village of Colorado appointed Kent Mulkey as executive director for Covenant Village of Colorado, a faith-based, not-for-profit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) located in Westminster, Colorado, and administered by Covenant Retirement Communities. Mulkey has 18 years of experience in senior housing leadership, including management, training and operations […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Greystone, CBRE

Greystone Provides $49.4 Million in Freddie Mac Financing for Seniors Housing in California and Colorado Greystone, a real estate advisory, investment and lending firm, announced it provided $49.9 million in Freddie Mac loans to refinance two assisted living and memory care communities in Denver, Colorado, and Carmichael, California. Greystone Managing Directors Scott Kavel and Cary […]

Movers & Shakers: Juniper’s Executive Promotion

Juniper Communities Announces Executive Promotion Juniper Communities, a national owner and operator of 20 senior living communities, announced the promotion of Cindy Longfellow to vice president of business development and sales and marketing. Longfellow started with Juniper in 2003 at a Wellspring Memory Care community in Louisville, Colorado, serving as a member of the community-based […]

In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (7/28/16)

(Rendering of Cherrywood Pointe of Minnetonka, located in Minnetonka, Minn. — Photo courtesy of Cherrywood Pointe Senior Living) Construction: Planned Community Will Expand CCRC in Carlisle, Pa. A Presbyterian Senior Living CCRC will begin construction of 12 residential homes for independent living. Green Ridge Village already serves more than 300 older adults in  personal care, […]