It's no secret, most of us would like to stay in our own home as we age. Yet, sometimes our loved ones just need a little extra help to remain comfortable at home. That's where Always Best Care can help....we are dedicated to exceeding expectations....always.
They say that your golden years are the best years of your life. For most older Americans, that's how it should be - a time to relax, reflect, and live life in a familiar place. After all, senior citizens in the U.S. have worked tirelessly to build a better economy, serve their communities, and raise families.
However, as seniors grow older, completing daily tasks like showering and enjoying activities such as visiting the historic Orogrande Historic Mining District gets harder without someone by their side. Unfortunately, many older Americans aren't able to rely on their adult children for help. The reality in today's world is that family members do not have the skills or time to dedicate to caring for their parents. That's where Always Best Care Senior Services comes in.
Our in-home care services are for people who prefer to stay at home as they grow older but need ongoing care that family or friends cannot provide. More and more older adults prefer to live far away from long-term, institutionalized facilities and closer to the place where they feel most comfortable - their home. Home care in Orogrande, NM is a safe, effective way to give your loved ones the care they need when they need it the most.
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Service AreasSince 1996, Always Best Care has provided non-medical in-home care for seniors to help them maintain a healthy lifestyle as they get older. We are proud to have helped more than 25,000 seniors maintain higher levels of dignity and respect. We focus on providing seniors with the highest level of in-home care available so that they may live happily and independently.
Unlike some senior care companies, we genuinely want to be included in our clients' lives. We believe that personalized care is always the better option over a "one size fits all" approach. To make sure our senior clients receive the best care possible, we pair them with compassionate caregivers who understand their unique needs. That way, they may provide care accordingly without compromising their wellbeing.
The Always Best Care difference lies in life's little moments - where compassionate care and trustworthy experience come together to help seniors live a fruitful, healthy life. Whether you are an aging adult that can't quite keep up with life's daily tasks or the child of a senior who needs regular in-home services, Always Best Care is here to help.
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“I love working here! The boss and supervisor are constantly checking up on both caregivers and family to make sure we have the equipment and support we need. They truly stand by their name. If your looking for a care agency for your loved ones. Look no further because I truly enjoy working for them and I know they hire caregivers who love their job. Patients are our number one concern and the care we provide should be the best. I have learned so much working for ABC Senior Services and I’m grateful for their support.”
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“The staff and everyone at this agency was amazing. They were professional and yet very personable. My father-in-law just turned 100 and my mother-in-law is 96, and together they can be a handful. I would highly recommend Always Best Care, without any hesitation.”
“I love working here! The boss and supervisor are constantly checking up on both caregivers and family to make sure we have the equipment and support we need. They truly stand by their name. If your looking for a care agency for your loved ones. Look no further because I truly enjoy working for them and I know they hire caregivers who love their job. Patients are our number one concern and the care we provide should be the best. I have learned so much working for ABC Senior Services and I’m grateful for their support.”
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Home is where the heart is. While that saying can sound a tad cliche, it is especially true for many seniors living in America. When given a choice, older adults most often prefer to grow older at home. An AARP study found that three out of four adults over the age of 50 want to stay in their homes and communities as they age.
When you begin to think about why, it makes sense. Home offers a sense of security, comfort, and familiarity.
The truth is, as we age, we begin to rely on others for help. When a family is too busy or lives too far away to fulfill this role, in-home senior care is often the best solution. Home care services allow seniors to enjoy personal independence while also receiving trustworthy assistance from a trained caregiver.
At Always Best Care, we offer a comprehensive range of home care services to help seniors stay healthy while they get the help they need to remain independent. As your senior loved one gets older, giving them the gift of senior care is one of the best ways to show your love, even if you live far away.
To give our senior clients the best care possible, we offer a full spectrum of in-home care services:
If your senior loved one has specific care needs, our personal care services are a great choice to consider. Personal care includes the standard caregiving duties associated with companion care and includes help with tasks such as dressing and grooming. Personal care can also help individuals with chronic conditions like diabetes.
Common personal care services include assistance with:
Sometimes, seniors need helpful reminders to maintain a high quality of life at home. If you or your senior has trouble with everyday tasks like cooking, our home helper services will be very beneficial.
Common home helper care services include assistance with:
Using this kind of care is a fantastic way to make life easier for you or your senior loved one. At Always Best Care, our talented caregivers often fill the role of a companion for seniors. That way, older adults can enjoy their favorite local activities, such as visiting Soledad Canyon Day Use Area with friends while also receiving the care they need daily or weekly.
Common companionship services include:
According to AARP, more than 53 million adults living in the U.S. provide care to someone over 50 years old. Unfortunately, these caregivers experience stress, exhaustion, and even depression. Our respite care services help family caregivers address urgent obligations, spend time with their children, and enjoy nearby activities. Perhaps more importantly, respite care gives family members time to recharge and regroup. Taking personal time to de-stress reduces the risk of caregiver burnout. So, if you've always wanted to eat at the local Sunset Grill, don't feel bad. Doing so is great for both you and your loved one.
At the end of the day, our goal is to become a valuable part of your senior's daily routine. That way, we may help give them the highest quality of life possible. We know that staying at home is important for your loved one, and we are here to help make sure that is possible.
If you have been on the fence about non-medical home care, there has never been a better time than now to give your senior the care, assistance, and companionship they deserve.
Always Best Care in-home services are for older adults who prefer to stay at home but need ongoing care that friends and family cannot provide. In-home care is a safe, effective way for seniors to age gracefully in a familiar place and live independent, non-institutionalized lives. The benefits of non-medical home care are numerous. Here are just a few reasons to consider senior care services from Always Best Care:
According to AARP, 9 out of 10 seniors prefer to age in place within the comfort of their own home. With in-home care, seniors have a way to stay at home, receive the care they need, and maintain a sense of independence, improving overall wellness.
If you or a member of your family have assumed the role of caregiver for your senior loved one, you know how stressful the job can be. Between caregiver burnout and constant worry, being a family caregiver is hard. In-home care relieves your burden and gives you peace of mind knowing that your older family member is in expert hands.
Unlike nursing homes, where the staff and residents rotate frequently, seniors can foster new friendships and build bonds with their caregiver. Seniors who socialize on a regular basis are often happier, which fosters positivity and leads to increased wellbeing.
No two seniors need the same kind of in-home care assistance. That is why each of our Care Plans is tailored to meet our client's individual needs. We offer plans that cover everything from light housekeeping to more involved duties like transportation to doctor's appointments. Our Care Coordinators will work closely with you to develop a personalized plan to ensure your senior's needs are exceeded.
Always Best Care offers a full array of care options for patients at all levels of health. With our trusted elderly care services, your loved one will receive the level of care necessary for them to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.
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While it's true that some seniors have complicated medical needs that prevent them from staying at home, aging in place is often the best arrangement for seniors and their families. With a trusted caregiver, seniors have the opportunity to live with a sense of dignity and do so as they see fit - something that is unavailable to many older people today.
In-home care makes it possible for millions of seniors to age in place every year. Rather than moving to a strange nursing home, seniors have the chance to stay at home where they feel the happiest and most comfortable.
How much does a senior's home truly mean to them?
A study published by the American Society on Aging found that more than half of seniors say their home's emotional value means more than how much their home is worth in monetary value. It stands to reason, then, that a senior's home is where they want to grow old.
With the help of elderly care in Orogrande, NM, seniors don't have to age in a sterilized care facility. Instead, they can age gracefully in the place they want to be most: their home. In contrast, seniors who move to a long-term care facility must adapt to new environments, new people, and new systems that the facility implements. At this stage in life, this kind of drastic change can be more harmful than helpful.
Institutional care facilities like nursing homes often put large groups of people together to live in one location. On any given day, dozens of staff members and caregivers run in and out of these facilities. Being around so many new people in a relatively small living environment can be dangerous for a seniors' health and wellbeing. When you consider that thousands of seniors passed away in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, opting for in-home care is often a safer, healthier choice for seniors.
Aging in place has been shown to improve seniors' quality of life, which helps boost physical health and also helps insulate them from viral and bacterial risks found in elderly living facilities.
For many seniors, the ability to live independently with assistance from a caregiver is a priceless option. With in-home care, seniors experience a higher level of independence and freedom - much more so than in other settings like a nursing home. When a senior has the chance to age in place, they get to live life on their own terms, inside the house that they helped make into a home. More independence means more control over their personal lives, too, which leads to increased levels of fulfillment, happiness, and personal gratification. Over time, these positive feelings can manifest into a healthier, longer life.
More independence, a healthier life, and increased comfort are only a few benefits of aging in place. You have to take into consideration the role of cost and convenience. Simply put, it's usually easier and more affordable to help seniors age in place than it is to move them into an institutional care facility. According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, seniors who age in the comfort of their homes can save thousands of dollars per month.
In-home care services from Always Best Care, for instance, are often less expensive than long-term solutions, which can cost upwards of six figures per year. To make matters worse, many residential care facilities are reluctant to accept long-term care insurance and other types of payment assistance.
With Always Best Care's home care services, seniors and their families have a greater level of control over their care plans. In-home care gives seniors the chance to form a bond with a trusted caregiver and also receive unmatched care that is catered to their needs. In long-term care facilities, seniors and their loved ones have much less control over their care plan and have less of a say in who provides their care.
In-home care is a valuable resource that empowers seniors to age in place on their own terms. However, a big concern for many families and their loved ones is how much in-home care costs. If you're worried that in-home care is too expensive, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn that it is one of the most affordable senior care arrangements available.
Typically, hiring an Always Best Care in-home caregiver for a few hours a week is more affordable than sending your loved one to a long-term care facility. This is true even for seniors with more complex care needs.
At Always Best Care, we will work closely with you and your family to develop a Care Plan that not only meets your care needs, but your budget requirements, too. Once we discover the level of care that you or your senior need, we develop an in-home care plan that you can afford.
In addition to our flexible care options, families should also consider the following resources to help offset potential home care costs:
When you or your senior loved one needs assistance managing daily tasks at home, finding a qualified caregiver can be challenging. It takes a special kind of person to provide reliable care for your senior loved one. However, a caregiver's role involves more than meal preparation and medication reminders. Many seniors rely on their caregivers for companionship, too.
Our companion care services give seniors the chance to socialize in a safe environment and engage in activities at home. These important efforts boost morale and provide much-needed relief from repetitive daily routines. A one-on-one, engaging conversation can sharpen seniors' minds and give them something in which to be excited.
At Always Best Care, we only hire care providers that we would trust to care for our own loved ones. Our senior caregivers in Orogrande, NM understand how important it is to listen and communicate with their seniors. A seemingly small interaction, like a short hug goodbye, can make a major difference in a senior's day. Instead of battling against feelings of isolation, seniors begin to look forward to seeing their caregiver each week.
Understanding the nuances of senior care is just one of the reasons why our care providers are so great at their job.
Unlike some senior care companies, our caregivers must undergo extensive training before they work for Always Best Care. In addition, our caregivers receive ongoing training throughout the year. This training ensures that their standard of care matches up to the high standards we've come to expect. During this training, they will brush up on their communication skills, safety awareness, and symptom spotting. That way, your loved one receives the highest level of non-medical home care from day one.
While it's true that many seniors prefer to age at home, sometimes in-home care isn't the best fit. For those seniors and their families, choosing an assisted living facility makes more sense. Unfortunately, finding the optimal care facility is easier said than done in today's day and age. That's when Always Best Care's assisted living referral services begin to make a lot of sense.
Assisted living is a form of housing intended for seniors who require varying degrees of medical and personal attention. Accommodations may include single rooms, apartments, or shared living arrangements. Assisted living communities are typically designed to resemble a home-like environment and are physically constructed to encourage the independence of residents.
At assisted living communities, seniors receive help with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, and eating. They may also benefit from coordination of services with outside healthcare providers, and monitoring of resident activities to ensure their health, safety, and well-being. Caregivers who work at assisted living communities can also provide medication administration and personal care services for older adults.
Other services offered within assisted living communities can include some or all of the following:
At Always Best Care, our representatives can match your senior's emotional, physical, and financial needs with viable assisted living communities nearby. Results are based on comparative data, so you can select the best choice for you or your loved one.
Always Best Care works closely with local senior living communities to gain valuable knowledge that we then use to help seniors and their loved ones make informed decisions. This information can include basic care and rent, resident availability, and services provided. Because Always Best Care is compensated by these communities, we provide senior living referral services at no extra cost to you.
Some of the most popular assisted living communities to consider in our area include the following:
For many seniors, moving into a senior living community revolves around how and when they want to make a transition to more involved care. Some seniors are more proactive about transitioning to independent living. Others choose to remain home until their care needs or other requirements are satisfied. Remember - our staff is here to help. Contact our office today to learn more about assisted living communities and how we can find a facility that exceeds your expectations.
The first step in getting quality in-home care starts with a personal consultation with an experienced Always Best Care Care Coordinator. This initial consultation is crucial for our team to learn more about you or your elderly loved one to discover the level of care required. Topics of this consultation typically include:
A discussion of your needs and how our trained caregivers can offer assistance in the most effective way
A draft of your care plan, which includes highly detailed notes and a framework for the care that you or your senior will receive
Discuss payment options and help coordinate billing with your insurance provider
Our caregivers are trained to spot changes that clients exhibit, like mental and physical decline. As your trusted senior care company, we will constantly assess and update your Care Plan to meet any new emotional, intellectual, physical, and emotional needs.
If you have never considered in-home care before, we understand that you and your family may have concerns about your Care Plan and its Care Coordinator. To help give you peace of mind, know that every team member and caregiver must undergo comprehensive training before being assigned to a Care Plan.
At the end of the day, we only hire the best of the best at Always Best Care. Whether you need home care in Orogrande, NM 24-hours a day or only need a respite for a couple of hours, we are here to serve you.
When you're ready, we encourage you to contact your local Always Best Care representative to set up a Care Consultation. Our Care Coordinators would be happy to meet with you in person to get to know you better, discuss your needs, and help put together a personalized Care Plan specific to your needs.
Orogrande, on U.S. 54 between El Paso and Alamogordo, was once a bustling town of somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 residents. A July 9, 1977, Times article gave some history of Orogrande:Known through its early history as Jarilla Junction it was turned into a hustler's delight when a nugget the size of a man's finger was found in the nearby mountains. Thus Jarilla Junction in 1905 was dubbed Oro Grande — "big gold."Overnight, the sleepy railroad heading blossomed into 3,000-plus population community with "...
Orogrande, on U.S. 54 between El Paso and Alamogordo, was once a bustling town of somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 residents. A July 9, 1977, Times article gave some history of Orogrande:
Known through its early history as Jarilla Junction it was turned into a hustler's delight when a nugget the size of a man's finger was found in the nearby mountains. Thus Jarilla Junction in 1905 was dubbed Oro Grande — "big gold."
Overnight, the sleepy railroad heading blossomed into 3,000-plus population community with "Chicago suckers" herded daily through the nearby hills to "discover" planted gold ....
When the mining operations were at their height, the now ghost town of Brice (4 miles east of Orogrande) was the major population center, not Oro Grande, and a railroad spur was constructed to haul the ores out.
Brice, in fact, had the first school in the area, and youngsters from Oro Grande (which has since been turned into one word) attended school there until the 1930s.
While gold captured the imagination of the prospectors, it was iron, turquoise and some silver which actually keep the towns alive.
The population of Orogrande began to wane when the promise of gold did not live up to expectations. By 1979, the town's population was reported to be about 80 people.
Through the '70s and '80s, the townspeople managed to keep a sense of humor about themselves and the town. There was the Orogrande National Forest, two trees and a sign; the Orogrande International Airport, a broken-down Border Patrol aircraft; and the unofficial ceremony to name Zelbourn, Algeria, as their sister city. This is from the Times, June 14, 1979:
Orogrande — Nothing is ever simple here. The 80 folk of this small community in the desert south of Alamogordo were all set to cut the ribbon on Orogrande International Airport this Sunday, when they complicated matters by throwing in this “sister city” thing.
Well. As always with Orogrande, it’s a long story. The airport first. A while back, a U.S. Border Patrol aircraft ran into engine trouble in the air above Orogrande and landed on an access road to U.S. 54, which runs through the community.
The plane was towed in to Perry Brunson’s garage, where it has been for about two months while Perry and friends work on the engine. The minor mishap inspired the impish Wood Johnston, who is chief ranger of the Orogrande National Forest (two trees and still growing) and chef du jour of the Oro Chico Cafe?, to dub Perry’s station and garage Orogrande International Airport.
“Oh, we’re having fun,” Woody announced Monday. “We’ve got the signs up already and everything — where the ‘gates’ are, and ‘baggage claim’ counter — everything.”
Plans call for a gala ribbon-cutting Sunday. To those fuddy-duddies who can’t see how Orogrande could be so “presumptuous,” as one man put it, Woody has an easy answer: “Why, our Runway 54 is 80 miles long!”
But what about the sister city business? Seems some Algerian engineers and embassy officials, in El Paso to study the implementation and operation of a natural gas pipeline with El Paso Natural Gas engineers, happened upon the Oro Chico.
The cafe? is also the “temporary” Ranger Station of the Orogrande National Forest. What with explanations of that arbor’s sign, and the signs about the airport, the engineers and the Orograndians became fast friends. And the engineers decided Orogrande has much in common with their home town: Zelboun, Algeria.
For one thing, they’re both little desert towns, with about the same head count — 80 humans, dogs uncounted. And, Woody points out, they both have border crossing problems — the Algerians complain the Moroccans come over and take jobs away from natives.
By the time all the comparisons had been made, the Algerians and the Orograndians had decided Orogrande and Zelboun were born to be sister cities. So among the festivities Sunday will be the presentation to Ali Boukhiar, as representative of Zelboun, of a proclamation from Orogrande and gifts to the Algerian town.
They will be delivered when the engineer goes home in July. “The whole thing’s got to be quasi-official, of course, because we’re not really a municipality,” Woody says. “I’ll be signing the proclamation as chief ranger. But though the airport is tongue-in-cheek, and though there’s a great deal of fun, connected with the sister cities, the feelings of friendship are genuine.
“Surely we haven’t reached the point quite yet in this bureaucratic world,” he adds, “that a proclamation of friendship and hopes for peace must be ‘officially official’ to be real."
Trish Long is the El Paso Times' librarian and spends her time in the morgue, where the newspaper keeps its old clippings and photos. She may be reached at 546-6179 or [email protected].
EL PASO - New Mexico entrepreneur and Las Cruces medical school founder Dan Burrell accuses an El Paso real estate investment trust, made up of some of El Paso's most successful business people, of fraud in a failed $20 million investment deal.Burrell, founder and board chairman of the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at New Mexico State University, made his claim in a lawsuit filed in El Paso federal court on June 10.It's Burrell's response to the Borderplex Realty Trust's lawsuit filed in a state court in May. That law...
EL PASO - New Mexico entrepreneur and Las Cruces medical school founder Dan Burrell accuses an El Paso real estate investment trust, made up of some of El Paso's most successful business people, of fraud in a failed $20 million investment deal.
Burrell, founder and board chairman of the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at New Mexico State University, made his claim in a lawsuit filed in El Paso federal court on June 10.
It's Burrell's response to the Borderplex Realty Trust's lawsuit filed in a state court in May. That lawsuit claimed Burrell's Borderplex Investment Partners breached a contract by failing to buy a promised $20 million worth of trust shares, which the trust planned to use for a multimillion-dollar Southwest housing venture.
The alleged contract breach forced the El Paso real estate investment trust, or REIT, to cancel its proposed housing venture with Encore Enterprises, a Dallas-based multifamily development firm, the trust reported in a letter to its shareholders.
Burrell's company alleges it canceled its agreement with the trust after buying $8.5 million worth of shares because it discovered what the federal lawsuit calls "multiple fraudulent misrepresentations" made by the trust.
Burrell's company Monday also filed a motion in an El Paso state court, asking the court to put the trust's lawsuit on hold while the issue is settled in federal court, which, Burrell's lawyers argued, has jurisdiction over claims tied to alleged violations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Act.
The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at New Mexico State University is a privately funded medical school located at NMSU, but operated separately from the university. It's scheduled to open in August in a new, 80,000-square-foot building.
Burrell, a New York state native who lives in Santa Fe and has a Yale law degree, has gained a high profile in New Mexico in recent years by first running a large commercial real estate company with a national portfolio of office buildings, then building the Las Cruces medical school. He owns an array of companies in various sectors, including a mining venture in Orogrande, N.M., and a huge ranch in Otero County
El Paso real estate mogul Bill Sanders, who is called Burrell's "trustworthy friend" in Burrell's lawsuit, asked Burrell to invest in the El Paso trust's new multifamily real estate strategy and to also help recruit other investors, according to the lawsuit. Sanders is one of the founders of the Borderplex Realty Trust.
"By virtue of its misrepresentations and material omissions, (Borderplex Realty Trust) succeeded in duping (Borderplex Investment Partners) into executing the subscription agreement and paying $8.5 million to (the trust) for the investment offering — which, of course, (Borderplex Investment Partners) would not have done had it known the truth," Burrell's lawsuit states.
The trust has refused to refund the $8.5 million despite offering to buy back shares from other investors who want out of the same investment offering, the lawsuit states.
Borderplex Realty Trust officials in a statement issued Monday said Burrell and his company spent more than five months evaluating their investment in the trust and negotiating a structure that would have given Burrell and his company "substantial governance rights" in the trust.
"All facts and relevant information regarding the transaction are fully disclosed in the offering documents," according to the El Paso trust's statement.
Many of the trust's board members and their family members "invested very substantial amounts on the same basis and upon the very facts that this particular sophisticated investor (Burrell's company) uniquely claims were not disclosed or that it did not understand," according to the trust's statement.
El Paso businessman Sanders and others formed the Borderplex Realty Trust in late 2006 to acquire Downtown buildings for redevelopment. It started as Borderplex Community Trust, but changed its name last year.
The trust assembled a $50 million Downtown property portfolio by 2011, some of which have since been sold. It owns two of El Paso's largest skyscrapers, the 18-story Chase and 21-story Wells Fargo bank buildings.
The Downtown El Paso investment strategy apparently was not successful, and around 2014, the REIT's board decided to focus on the acquisition and development of multifamily housing in certain rapidly growing Southwest U.S., markets, according to Burrell's lawsuit.
That led the El Paso trust to form a proposed joint venture with Encore Enterprises in Dallas for development of five multifamily properties, with total costs of $232.9 million, according to Burrell's lawsuit. The locations of the properties have not been publicly disclosed by the trust and were not disclosed in the federal lawsuit.
Burrell's lawsuit claims the trust did not disclose $13.8 million of Encore's project compensation, and other items that granted Encore an ownership stake in the proposed joint venture about 20 percent more than the size of its actual investment. That included the El Paso trust not disclosing it loaned Encore $2.6 million to buy land for one of the housing projects, according to the lawsuit.
The alleged undisclosed information was "highly material" to evaluation of the investment offering by Burrell's company because those facts reduced expected returns on Burrell's company investment and increased risk because of the absence of performance guarantees for the housing projects, the lawsuit states.
The trust turned down Burrell's company's offer to turn its cash investment into a zero-percent loan, or temporary investment so that the El Paso trust could complete the Encore deal, according to the lawsuit.
"With an existing shareholder base of more than 200 high-net-worth individuals and a board of trustees with extensive fundraising networks both nationally and globally, it is implausible" the $20 million that Burrell's company planned to invest in the trust "could not have been replaced in due course," the lawsuit states.
Instead, the Borderplex Realty Trust filed a lawsuit against Burrell's Borderplex Investment Partners in "a desperate attempt to shift blame for the failure of the (investment) offering, which actually fell apart when BRT's deception was discovered," the lawsuit states.
Burrell's company is asking the federal court to order the El Paso trust to refund its $8.5 million investment in the trust, and to order it to pay punitive damages of $17 million.
Vic Kolenc may be reached at 915-546-6421;; @vickolenc on Twitter.
An El Paso real estate investment trust has filed a lawsuit claiming that a company managed by New Mexico real estate and medical school mogul Dan Burrell has breached a contract by reneging on an agreement to invest at least $20 million in the trust, which planned to use the money for a Southwest multifamily housing venture.The Borderplex Realty Trust, managed by several of El Paso's most successful businesspeople, filed the lawsuit in an El Paso state court early this month against Borderplex Investment Partners, whose managing memb...
An El Paso real estate investment trust has filed a lawsuit claiming that a company managed by New Mexico real estate and medical school mogul Dan Burrell has breached a contract by reneging on an agreement to invest at least $20 million in the trust, which planned to use the money for a Southwest multifamily housing venture.
The Borderplex Realty Trust, managed by several of El Paso's most successful businesspeople, filed the lawsuit in an El Paso state court early this month against Borderplex Investment Partners, whose managing member is listed as Daniel C. Burrell, according to the lawsuit.
Burrell is founder and board chairman of the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at New Mexico State University, a privately funded medical school located at NMSU that's operated separately from the university. It's scheduled to open in August in a new, 80,000-square-foot building.
Burrell could not be reached Friday for comment about the lawsuit. And his company by Friday had not yet filed a response to the lawsuit with the El Paso state court.
Jamie Gallagher, senior vice president of the Borderplex trust, said in an email that trust officials had no comment about the legal battle, except to say the lawsuit accurately states the trust's position in the matter.
Burrell, a New York state native who lives in Santa Fe and has a law degree from Yale, has gained a high profile in New Mexico in recent years by first running a large commercial real estate company with a national portfolio of office buildings and then building the Las Cruces medical school and other enterprises.
He's founder and chief executive officer of The Burrell Group, a holding company with an array of companies in various sectors, including a mining venture in Orogrande, N.M., and a huge ranch in Otero County, according to his biography on the Burrell medical school website and information in an Albuquerque Journal story about him.
Burrell's Borderplex Investment Partners last year agreed to purchase $20 million worth of shares in the El Paso real estate investment trust in three installments as part of a shares' offering by the trust, according to the lawsuit.
After paying $8.5 million for 42.5 percent of shares issued under the offering, Burrell's company notified the Borderplex trust that it had no intention of funding the remaining $1.5 million installment due by March 31, and the final $10 million installment due by April 18, the lawsuit claims.
In a May 13 letter to Borderplex trust investors, El Paso businessman Jack Cardwell, the trust's board chairman, informed investors of the alleged "commitment breach," and the trust board's decision to cancel the proposed multifamily housing venture because the trust needed Borderplex Investment Partners' money to help fund the venture.
Cardwell wrote that others who bought shares in the trust's offering could get their money back by returning the shares.
"The funds from the offering were to further implement Borderplex's (trust) workforce multifamily strategy by forming a venture with Encore Properties Inc., for the development of five multifamily properties," Cardwell wrote.
Encore is a Dallas-based national real estate company that develops, acquires, and manages multifamily properties, hotels, shopping centers, office buildings and other properties, according to its website.
The letter to trust investors did not provide further details about the proposed housing venture with Encore, and did not provide information on the size of the shares' offering.
Encore officials could not be reached for comment about the proposed venture.
A Borderplex Realty Trust filling with the Securities and Exchange Commission reported the trust sold almost $44 million worth of shares to 32 investors in February. The minimum investment was set at $30,225, it said.
In Cardwell's letter, he said that Borderplex Investment Partners indicated it would possibly invest as much as $30 million in the El Paso real estate investment trust and that the company's "strategic investor" would "become actively involved in the management of Borderplex" trust as its investment in the trust increased.
The Borderplex Realty Trust was formed in late 2006 by well-known El Paso businessman Bill Sanders and others to acquire Downtown buildings for redevelopment. It started as Borderplex Community Trust, but changed its name last year, according to a filing with the Texas Secretary of State's Office.
The trust owns El Paso's two largest skyscrapers, the 18-story Chase and 21-story Wells Fargo bank buildings. It also demolished two buildings on the 200 block of Mesa Street at Mills Avenue in Downtown in 2013 for a promised project that never materialized. The lots are still vacant.
The trust had assembled a $50 million Downtown property portfolio by 2011, some of which has since been sold. The trust board in late 2010 studied the possibility of shifting the trust's focus to investing outside of El Paso. A majority of shareholders voted against changing the focus.
But in the May letter to investors, Cardwell talked about the trust's "expanded strategy to invest in workforce multifamily properties in the Southwestern United States."
El Paso Inc. reported late last year that a trust letter to investors in 2015 said the trust was changing its strategy to investing in multifamily housing in Hispanic and working class markets.
The Borderplex trust in its lawsuit is asking the court to rule that Burrell's company breached its agreement and that the trust should receive damages, attorney's fees, and court costs from Borderplex Investment Partners.
Vic Kolenc may be reached at 546-6421;; @vickolenc on Twitter.
A group of high-powered El Paso real estate investors in a new court filing maintain they did not defraud New Mexico entrepreneur Dan Burrell, founder of a Las Cruces medical college, in a failed $20 million investment deal as he alleged in a federal lawsuit filed in June.The Borderplex Realty Trust, a 9-year-old El Paso real estate investment trust, in a motion filed July 5, is asking a federal judge to dismiss Burrell's lawsuit because the trust gave him a detailed, 174-page Private Placement Memorandum — similar to a prospect...
A group of high-powered El Paso real estate investors in a new court filing maintain they did not defraud New Mexico entrepreneur Dan Burrell, founder of a Las Cruces medical college, in a failed $20 million investment deal as he alleged in a federal lawsuit filed in June.
The Borderplex Realty Trust, a 9-year-old El Paso real estate investment trust, in a motion filed July 5, is asking a federal judge to dismiss Burrell's lawsuit because the trust gave him a detailed, 174-page Private Placement Memorandum — similar to a prospectus for publicly traded stock offerings — and other documents that "clearly and unambiguously disclose the very information that (Burrell) alleges was concealed" by the trust.
The privately held trust revealed previously private details about its proposed housing venture and its finances and real estate holdings in its private stock offering memo, issued late last year, and attached to its court motion. The court also kept some of the trust's financial details private by sealing several documents attached to the lawsuit.
El Paso lawyer Link Beck, one of several lawyers representing Burrell in his lawsuit against the trust, said Burrell and his lawyers had no comments about the trust's motion. Burrell's lawyers have until next week, under federal court rules, to file a response to the trust's motion.
Burrell, who lives in Santa Fe, is founder and board chairman of the privately funded Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, and owner of an array of companies in various sectors, including a mining venture in Orogrande, N.M.
Burrell's June lawsuit said El Paso real estate mogul and banker Bill Sanders, one of the founders of the Borderplex trust, asked him to invest in the trust's new, multifamily real estate strategy. Sanders, who made billions of dollars with past real estate companies, is chairman of Strategic Growth Bank, a bank holding company he founded several years ago. It owns Capital Bank in El Paso and other regional banks.
Jack Cardwell, another well-know El Paso businessman, is the trust's board chairman. His name is on the recently opened Cardwell Collaborative biomedical research building on the Medical Center of Americas campus in Central El Paso because he made a substantial donation for its construction.
The trust's $40 million private stock offering was to be used for a $234.4 million venture with Encore Enterprises, a Dallas developer, to build five apartment complexes in San Antonio, Dallas, Katy, Texas, and Denver — the start of the trust's shift to building and buying apartment complexes in the Southwest, including El Paso, according to the trust's offering memo. The trust had an agreement to buy Encore's multi-family development operations.
Burrell's Borderplex Investment Partners bought $8.5 million worth of trust shares early this year, but then canceled its agreement, which would have it buying another $11.5 million in shares by mid-April, after finding "multiple fraudulent misrepresentations" made by the trust, Burrell's June lawsuit alleged.
That forced the El Paso trust to kill its proposed housing deal with Encore, and ignited the ongoing legal battle.
The trust used its financial documents to refute the picture Burrell painted in his lawsuit that the trust was struggling and on the verge of "winding down" if it did not complete a deal to begin the multi-family development venture with Encore.
The trust was financially healthy when Burrell agreed to invest in it, according to its court motion.
The trust had assets of $82.4 million as of Sept. 30, 2015 — $37.2 million more than its $45.2 million in liabilities. Most of its assets were in its $65 million worth of real estate holdings. However, it lost more than $1 million in each of the last two years, according to its financial statements.
Its largest assets were 17 Downtown El Paso properties, including the Chase and Wells Fargo buildings in Downtown El Paso, and a 176-unit apartment complex in Santa Fe that the trust acquired in April 2015 for $20 million.
The trust's motion argues Burrell's lawsuit did not meet federal standards required to support a securities fraud claim, and for that reason, it asks that the lawsuit be dismissed.
It also argues that Burrell's signature on an agreement to buy $20 million worth of trust shares included an affirmation that Burrell and his company are legally defined as accredited, or sophisticated, investors who could secure needed information themselves to determine if the trust investment made sense.
The El Paso trust in May filed a lawsuit in an El Paso state court against Burrell's Borderplex Investment Partners, alleging it breached a contract by failing to buy the promised $20 million worth of trust shares. That lawsuit is on hold pending the outcome of the federal lawsuit.
Burrell fired back in June, filing a lawsuit in El Paso federal court, accusing the trust of securities fraud.
The trust's motion to dismiss Burrell's lawsuit includes a copy of an agreement Burrell signed that outlined the three payments his company promised to pay from Feb. 29, 2016 to April 18 to buy the $20 million worth of trust shares.
Burrell's lawsuit claimed the trust did not disclose $13.8 million of Encore's project compensation, and other items that granted Encore an ownership stake in the proposed joint venture about 20 percent more than the size of its actual investment. That included the El Paso trust not disclosing it loaned Encore $2.6 million to buy land for one of the housing projects, according to the lawsuit. Those items reduced investment returns expected by Burrell and increased his risk, his lawsuit argued.
The trust in its motion, asserted the $13.8 million compensation payment to Encore does not exist. It's a "fictional number" that Burrell mistakenly derived by combining certain numbers in the offering memo, according to the trust's motion.
The trust said it also disclosed its $2.6 million loan to Encore to buy land for a $45.5 million, 253-unit apartment complex to be built in Dallas in the project's balance sheet, which was part of one of the documents sealed by the court.
Vic Kolenc may be reached at [email protected]; 546-6421; @vickolenc on Twitter.
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