Operators of California-based rehabilitation center Newport Academy will convert the former Villa Bianca wedding and banquet facility in Seymour into a 38-bed treatment facility for teens and young adults.
Health Real Estate Holdings LLC and James Monroe Jr. of Los Angeles bought the Seymour facility from Jay Patel, of Villa on the River LLC, for $3 million in a deal recorded Dec. 12.
The three-building property on 5.6 acres at 312 Roosevelt Drive sits along the Housatonic River. It features a 31,000-square-foot main banquet hall with three event spaces and a 16-room hotel. It also includes a 2,000-square-foot chapel, three-bay garage of 2,000 square feet, commercial kitchen, outdoor gazebo and pavilion and 56,000 square feet of paved parking.
Jason G. Lund, of Colliers, who represented the seller, said Newport will turn the Villa Bianca into a 38-room Newport Academy treatment facility and conduct extensive renovations to the property.
Newport Academy is a treatment facility for teens and young adults that addresses mental health issues, trauma, eating disorders and substance abuse.
This will be the second Newport Academy location in Connecticut. A Bethlehem facility opened about a decade ago and expanded onto another campus a few years later.
Newport Academy has nearly 20 locations in California, along with two in Virginia, two in Washington state and one in Utah.
The Villa Bianca facility, built in 1950, was a wedding and banquet facility that temporarily closed during the pandemic and reopened, then ultimately closed a year ago, according to Lund. The buyers were represented by Cushman & Wakefield.
