Senior Housing

Why You Shouldn’t Market to ‘Active Adults’

The term could violate fair housing requirements.

Senior Lifestyle Developing Retirement Community in Northbrook, Ill.

Senior Lifestyle is developing North Shore Place, a five-story retirement building in Northbrook, Ill., that is set to open in summer of 2014.

TODAY’S DEALS: Friedkin Buys a 374-Unit Illinois Asset

HFF brokers a Illinois sale for MEPT; Titan SenQuest acquires a Texas seniors housing asset; and Beech Street Capital closes a $10.5 million loan for a Utah acquisition.

TODAY’S DEALS: ARA Seniors Housing Completes Georgia Class A Sale

PREI buys a seniors housing asset in an ARA-brokered sale; Beech Street closes $17.2 million for a 456-unit asset in Florida; and Commercial Mortgage Capital secures a $23 million construction loan.

Arts-Oriented Seniors Housing Completed in Long Beach

Long Beach Senior Arts Colony, a development of Meta Housing Corp., has been completed. The property is a new-construction TOD with 200 units designed to provide affordable housing for seniors.

High-Tech Memory Care/Assisted Living Property Completed in Suburban Texas

Developers PinPoint Commercial L.P. and Thrive Senior Living have completed Legacy at Bear Creek, a 78-unit assisted living and memory care facility in the affluent Fort Worth suburb of Keller.

Target Demographic: Active Adults

Fifty-five to 75-year-olds like many of the same things as the hipster generation…

Emeritus to Operate Merrill Gardens’ Seniors Portfolio

Seniors housing specialist Emeritus has inked a deal to take over operation of 38 properties currently run by Merrill Gardens.

Construction Begins on Seniors Housing in Brooklyn

Developer CPC Resources Inc. has joined forces with Ground Community HDFC, East Brooklyn Congregations, Common St. Paul Community Baptist Church, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the New York State Homes and Community Renewal on construction of Redwood Senior Living in the East New York section of Brooklyn.

Seniors Housing Development Nears Completion in Metro Cleveland

Work is nearly complete on Emeritus at Newell Creek, a seniors housing property in Mentor, Ohio.