Nagels sell Meridian retirement facilities

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By Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News
August 30, 2005

Colorado GOP power brokers Ralph and Trish Nagel have sold their six Meridian retirement and nursing-home facilities in the Denver area and Texas to a Canadian-Australian venture for a reported $232 million.

The 1,043 units will be managed by Florida-based Horizon Bay, which now operates 36 senior housing facilities in nine states.

The sale was reported in a statement put out by joint venture partners Canada-based Chartwell Seniors Housing Real Estate Investment Trust and ING Real Estate Australia, a subsidiary of ING Group NV of the Netherlands.

Ralph Nagel, who founded the upscale retirement business in 1984, could not be reached by phone. He did respond to an e-mail query only to say the deal was less than $232 million, but he did not elaborate. -Trish Nagel couldn't be reached for comment.

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