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Senior Housing Occupancy Increased in 4th Quarter

Senior housing occupancy increased in the U.S., in the 4th Quarter of 2022, according to data from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care. The national occupancy rate for 4th quarter 2022 for private-pay seniors housing reached 83.0%, from 82.1% percent in the third quarter.

Since the second quarter of 2021, the occupancy rate has recovered from a post-Pandemic low of 77.8%. The seniors housing occupancy rate increased for the sixth consecutive quarter due to continued strong demand that has exceeded new senior inventory growth. Because new inventory has been added during the pandemic, however, the occupancy rate has not yet reached pre-pandemic levels, according to the NIC.

Industry observers, developers and senior living & care consultants have experienced increased challenges with new project feasibility, in the post-Pandemic period. The senior housing asset class was significantly impacted by the Pandemic, but the industry was already suffering prior to Covid-19’s impacts. But the continued recovery has many real estate investors looking to add private-pay senior housing to their portfolios in coming years. According to JLL, Primary and Sun Belt markets are experiencing the highest concentration of new senior construction.

The NIC senior housing occupancy data is for private-pay seniors housing, and includes independent living, assisted living and memory care facilities for seniors. The NIC refers to this data as their NIC MAP Vision data product. The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) is an Annapolis-based nonprofit firm that tracks industry data from 31 U.S. metropolitan markets.

For more information about nationwide senior housing occupancies at private-pay facilities, visit the NIC here.

happy holidays from The Adventure Entertainment Cos.

Adventure Entertainment Cos. has new website.

The Adventure Entertainment Cos., an affiliate of StoneCreek Partners (“SCP”), has launched a new website at AEC Creative – in Beta form. Some of the client experience and specific projects that have been listed here along with SCP experience will be moved over to AEC Creative.

The Adventure Entertainment Cos. (AEC) is a conceptual design and project implementation company, focused on themed attractions, location-based entertainment, and outdoor recreation. AEC regularly collaborates with StoneCreek Partners during the project feasibility and conceptual design stages of client assignments, providing early “previsualization” of potential site organization, project massing and relative scale, and exploration of guest scripting and experience.

AEC has also established ventures with 3rd-party organizations for the operation of niche destination facilities in outdoor recreation (GoBOLD Adventures), creative campuses (Monumental Studios), and living stories (StagePlex). These new ventures are led by highly-experienced professionals in these industries, including Paul Bierman-Lytle, Justin Zoladz, and Robert “Bob” Johnson, among others. The purpose of Adventure Entertainment Cos. having a new website, is to prepare for more direct-to-consumer communications about these coming destination facilities. The Adventure Entertainment Cos. is committed to the creation of destination experiences for major project as well as smaller intra-regional locations, that combine the outdoor recreation, extreme sport, themed, and location-based entertainment industries.

The EB-5 Program is Reauthorized

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President Biden signed legislation today with the effect that the EB-5 program is reauthorized, in particular its Regional Center component, effective now through September 30, 2027. The program is part of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (the “Act”), which itself is part of the Omnibus spending bill signed by the President.

The reauthorization of the Regional Center program follows an almost 9 month lapse, when prior efforts failed to extend the program beyond July 1, 2021. The Regional Centers aspect of EB-5 have allowed foreign investors a special opportunity to invest in high-profile developments that they likely would not otherwise find accessible. The EB-5 program had its controversies and numerous parties had worked to place safeguards to prevent fraud and encourage investment in areas that followed from the original intent of the program.

The EB-5 program allows foreign investors to invest a specified amount of capital into a U.S. enterprise that creates American jobs, in return for permanent residency. With passage of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022, changes were made to the program to presumably improve its implementation. The new legislation emphasizes compliance with EB-5’s intent along with enforcement procedures. Program sponsors under EB-5 will face greater scrutiny in recordkeeping, investment types, audits, and investor communications. The minimum EB-5 investment amount now increases to $800,000 from the current $500,000 for Targeted Employment Areas and Rural Areas, and, changes to $1.05 million from the current $1.0 million for Non-Targeted Employment Areas. These changed minimum investments apply to both regional center and direct EB-5 investments.

With the news that the EB-5 Program is reauthorized, a backload of foreign investors who were in the midst of processing last June, will hopefully soon see progress in the processing of their investment / visa applications.

The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program was created in 1990 by the Immigration Act of 1990.

North America’s Borders Remain Closed

12.12.2020 Covid-19 impacts and recovery, Economic Development Consultants, Economic Development Growth Monitor, Project Consultants for North America, StoneCreek Partners News and Research

North America’s borders remain closed through January 21, 2021, limiting border crossings to “essential trade only” between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The mutually-agreed extension has been made on a month by month basis during 2020, and has been in place since March of this year.

The border closure is due to Covid-19 cases on both sides of each border, and the interest of each country in protecting their citizens. The national health agencies and ministries, and health officers, for each country are part of the decision-making for these restrictions. Each country is looking to relevant data and protective health measures that seem to be working.

So-called border crossing due to “essential trade” activity is allowed under the provisions of the agreed restrictions, between the U.S. and Canada, and between Mexico and the U.S. While essential economic development and various business activities continue, cross-border tourist activities to any number of visitor destinations have been decimated.

Presumptive President-elect Joe Biden’s administration will be part of the next consideration of these border restrictions. Biden is set to take office on January 20, and the current border restrictions come due for consideration on January 21st.

A full article in Travel Pulse from December 11, 2020 indicating that North America’s borders remain closed, is available at this link:

US, Canada and Mexico Land Border Restrictions Extended

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Strategic Plan for Social Endowment Program

22.11.2020 Project Consultants for North America, Strategic Marketing Consultants, Strategic Planning Consultants

Strategic plan for social endowment program, to encourage income diversity, wealth accumulation, entrepreneurism, and economic opportunity for all. The plan was prepared in collaboration with the Social Entrepreneurship Consortium Inc (“SECI”).

The strategic planning process and related ideation and resulted in the creation of the “Social Entrepreneurship Endowment & Development Fund (SEED).” The SEED program seeks to encourage diversity in income and wealth accumulation, to foster entrepreneurism, and to promulgate vital economic prospects for children everywhere.

The SEED program employ a powerful economic approach to investing, that prioritizes vital social constituencies as stakeholders, more directly than through traditional philanthropy, what is referred to as a “philanthropy first” approach. “Philanthropy First” investing says simply, make the social commitment by including community stakeholders at the outset of investing, so that the positive results of a successful enterprises are not discretionary with primary social benefit being at an end state (the retirement or passing of the enterprise’s founder) as is the case now. Why not instead make the social commitment part of the operating scheme of the enterprise? This sensibility is a critical factor in this strategic plan for social endowment program.

SECI envisions that more diversified wealth creation, if achieved, can improve a sense of personal, family, and community wellness, as well as reducing social disruptions now flaring in democracies. And perhaps play a role in vitalizing capitalism at a critical time in world history. The SEED Program is inspired by the “Giving Pledge” initiative created by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, where high net worth individuals pledge more than half of their wealth to charitable causes either during their lives or in their wills. However, the SEED Program takes a different approach, where constituent shareholders have a stake in an entrepreneurial for-profit enterprise at its outset creating a shared outlook for a community’s future. Whereas the “Giving Pledge” is a private decision to distribute wealth after its accumulation. The Seed Program seeks to build shared values and a new mindset, a new form of charitable donation.

The strategic plan for social endowment program included a detailed action plan for jump starting participation among strategic partners and interested communities. Part of the plan also addressed select strategic marketing considerations in connection with the program launch, initially focused on leading family offices around the world where ESG Investing is finding a constituency.

SECI is headquartered in Toronto with affiliates and partners globally. SECI brings an innovative model of social entrepreneurship that is unique in design and comprehensive in coverage of the global social entrepreneurship sector.