Bricks $ Mortar
THE VACANT INSPIRED HEALTHCARE
FACILITY IN CRESWELL.
Photo by Eve Weston
The many fi nancial claims against
the project have not been previously
reported. Nor has the shuttering of the
Roseburg construction project.
FLURRY OF CLAIMS
MEMORY LOSS
Developer halts work
on Creswell senior-care
complex as contractors
clamor for payment
BY CHRISTIAN WIHTOL
C
onstruction companies
and their workers say an
Arizona-based developer
has stiff ed them nearly $1.5
million for their work build-
ing an elder-care complex in Creswell
that sits unfi nished and deserted.
Flagstaff, Arizona-based Inspired
Healthcare Capital had been promising
this year to open its two-building 48-unit
assisted living and memory care center
on Emerald Parkway on the east side of
Interstate 5. But the glass doors are now
taped over with cardboard. The interior
is barren and unfi nished, littered with
copper and plastic piping, and boxes
of joint compound and wire. Pallets
of antibacterial soap and construction
materials sit outside.
It’s unclear when or if the place will
open.
Eight construction companies and
dozens of workers have fi led lien claims
saying they are owed nearly $1.5 million
for their work. One contractor, an elec-
trical company, has sued in Lane County
Circuit Court seeking payment.
Inspired Healthcare’s other Oregon
project, constructing a 48-bed assisted
living and memory care complex south
of Roseburg, has also stalled and is unfi n-
ished.
Roseburg landscaper Patrick O’Con-
nor has fi led a lien seeking more than
$80,000 for his work on the Creswell
site this summer. Early on in the job he
sensed trouble, he says.
“There were red fl ags all over the
place,” including Inspired Healthcare
being slow to pay and management caring
little about the work being done, O’Con-
nor says.
“It’s disheartening,” he says. Contrac-
tors “are out a tremendous amount of
money.”
O’Connor says he did some land-
scaping at the Roseburg site, but quickly
halted work there when payments ceased.
WEALTHY INVESTORS
Inspired Healthcare, with roughly
three dozen senior complexes around
the country, faces fi nancial shortfalls
and is under investigation by the federal
Securities & Exchange Commission,
according to recent announcements
by law fi rms that are scrutinizing the
company. Eugene Weekly was unable to
reach Inspired Healthcare for comment.
Nationwide, developers eager to cash
in on the demand for senior-care facili-
ties may have over-built, recent industry
reports suggest.
Founded in 2016, Inspired Health-
care is a private-equity company, raising
money from wealthy investors to build,
buy or remodel elder-care complexes.
The company promises high returns
but provides scant fi nancial disclosure
to investors, the law fi rms say.
Each Inspired Healthcare complex
is a separate legal entity. The Creswell
project, which cost upward of an esti-
mated $17 million, is owned by Inspired
Senior Living of Creswell Development
LLC. It was supposed to be managed by
the Volante branch of Inspired Health-
care, but Inspired Healthcare recently
shut down that arm, the law fi rms say.
News that the Creswell project had
failed to open was fi rst reported by The
Chronicle newspaper.
Those harmed in the Creswell proj-
ect include dozens of electricians owed
a total of $137,000 in pension and other
fringe benefi t contributions for work they
performed this year and last, according
to the lien fi led by four worker pension
plans against the development.
The biggest claimant thus far is Mars
Construction of Roseburg, which says it
is due $521,000 on $2 million worth of
work it performed.
Seattle-based North Coast Electric Co.
says it is owed $269,254, much of it for
work dating to 2024. North Coast sued
in Lane County Circuit Court last month
seeking payment, including, if necessary,
through a foreclosure sale of the Creswell
complex. Inspired Healthcare has not
yet responded to the lawsuit.
Landscaper O’Connor’s claim shows
he was paid $76,000, but is still owed
$82,219 for plants, mulch, other mate-
rials, labor and equipment rental. He
installed an irrigation system for the
extensive landscaping, but says he’s
not sure the owner has turned it on.
Blackberry bushes, grass and weeds are
already popping up through the mulch.
The liens on the Creswell property
have all been fi led in the last several
months.
When a property owner fails to pay a
building contractor, the contractor’s fi rst
step is to fi le a lien against the property
with the county clerk’s offi ce. After a set
amount of time, and if the property owner
still hasn’t paid up, the contractor can
sue and seek remedies, including fore-
closure sale of the property — although
such sales are rare.
“We don’t know what’s going to
happen. There are so many claims,”
O’Connor says.
LOOKING FOR INVESTORS
Law fi rms nationwide are publicly
soliciting people who invested with
Inspired Healthcare and now want their
money back. Inspired Healthcare recently
stopped making payments to investors
and is seeking new funding, the law
fi rms say.
Inspired Healthcare used the Securi-
ties & Exchange Commission Regulation
D method to raise money from wealthy
and supposedly sophisticated investors,
the law fi rms say.
“These [Regulation D] off erings come
with limited SEC reporting, minimal
liquidity, and reduced investor protec-
tions compared to public securities,” says
the website of Bakhtiari & Harrison, a
Los Angeles law fi rm seeking to represent
unhappy Inspired Healthcare investors.
“Only about 10 to 15 of [Inspired
Healthcare’s] 35 senior-living commu-
nities are reported to remain fi nancially
viable — a troubling performance rate
that suggests widespread risk to inves-
tors,” the law fi rm warns.
LAND PURCHASES
An arm of Inspired Healthcare bought
the Creswell land in 2021 for $983,168,
according to the deed. There are no public
records showing how Inspired Health-
care funded the property purchase or
the construction work.
The exteriors of the two Creswell
buildings are fi nished, including paint-
ing. But the interiors remain incomplete.
The bedrooms and common areas lack
any furniture. Cabinets sit wrapped in
their delivery coverings. Stray tools and
materials are evidence of workers quickly
walking off the job. The project abuts
a busy small- and large-animal veteri-
nary clinic.
In 2021, an arm of Inspired Health-
care bought the Douglas County land,
off Interstate 5 south of Roseburg, for
$750,000, the deed shows.
Construction at the Roseburg prop-
erty is less advanced than at the Creswell
location. The worksite is deserted and
the buildings have been surrounded
tightly with security fencing. The Cali-
fornia-based construction manager that
Inspired Healthcare hired to oversee
the Roseburg and Creswell projects has
fi led liens claiming it is owed $106,000
on the Roseburg job and $36,000 on the
Creswell job.
Bricks $ Mortar is a column anchored by
Christian Wihtol, who worked as an editor and
writer at The Register-Guard in Eugene 1990-
2018, much of the time focused on real estate,
economic development and business. Reach him
at Christian@EugeneWeekly.com.
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