Now in the fourth decade of his senior living career, Mike Brown is still thinking big — literally. Brown is chairman of Sterling Estates, a…
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In 1991, California CCRC Morningside of Fullerton was struggling with massive operating losses and very low occupancy. Today, it’s a crown jewel in Life Care…
Cooperative housing remains a niche within senior living, but the model is slowly growing. It has become a competitive option in some markets, and may…
As developers seek to adapt offices, hotels, schools and commercial buildings into senior housing projects, one unlikely property type holds newfound appeal: former psychiatric hospitals.…
The title song to the musical Cabaret was most famously performed by Liza Minnelli — but it took on new layers of meaning when sung…
When Kris Engskov took a job with Starbucks in 2002, the iconic coffee purveyor was only a fraction of the size that it is today.…
Technology will play a key role when Maplewood Senior Living’s Inspir Carnegie Hill community opens on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The $300 million…
Large players such as Skender and IKEA are betting that prefab building practices can help meet the rising demand for senior housing. Chicago-based Skender has…
Since closing on their affiliation to start 2019, the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society and Sanford Health have pursued a three-part strategy to realize the…
Investor appetite for senior housing has grown to levels that industry finance experts say is unprecedented, in terms of the variety of buyers seeking transactions.…
Other senior living companies can learn a thing or two about employee satisfaction from Brightview Senior Living. The Baltimore-based provider took the top spot among…
About two decades after its founding, Louisville, Colorado-based Balfour Senior Living is entering a new era. With real estate investment trust Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL)…
While franchising is embraced in home care and hospitality — not to mention fast food, rental cars and various other industries — it has been…
In July, an independent living facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee welcomed an unconventional new resident: an 18-year-old named John Payne. This experiment in multigenerational housing is…
There are are plenty of ideas circulating as senior living stakeholders search for ways to make communities for the vast middle market. But it is…
Invesque (TSX: IVQ.U) is wasting no time in building up the $340 million Commonwealth Senior Living portfolio acquired last May. Invesque is transitioning the majority…
In striking a joint venture with Clover Management, real estate investment trust Welltower (NYSE: WELL) has brought a quickly expanding middle-market independent living company into…
A vacant shopping mall in upstate New York will soon have a second life, with senior housing and care setting the foundation. Skyview on the…
As the baby boomer generation ages, demand for senior living is set to soar — and consumer expectations will also rise. Forward-thinking providers are already…
Silverado kicked off August with a party. The occasion was the grand opening of Silverado’s latest memory care community, in the northern Milwaukee suburb of…