BENSALEM, PAKennedy Funding Financial LLC has completed a $3.5 million loan for Lifestyle Real Estate I, an affiliate of Lifestyle Healthcare Group, which has received approval from the township for a $185 million medical office campus to be built on a 10.31-acre tract of vacant land in Bensalem Twp., Bucks County, PA. The two-year, interest-only loan has an initial interest rate of 12%.

"The borrower has received final approval for this major project, and intends to spend $2 million from the loan proceeds for site work and for working capital," says Gregg Wolfer, COO of Kennedy Funding. "The borrower also anticipates obtaining a construction loan to pay off this loan."

The borrower acquired the tract, located at the intersection of US Route 1 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bensalem, in October, 2013. More than $3.1 million has been invested to obtain zoning change to business park, for governmental approvals and variances, and engineering, as well as demolition of an existing building in 2014.

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