sponsored loan programs is the Marshville youth campus, an
Anderson Health Services project located in Marshville, North
Carolina. Anderson’s campus is a psychiatric rehabilitation
facility for troubled youth made possible and funded using the
SBA 504 loan program and EB-5 funds.
The facility provides on-site, live-in, full-time psychiatric
counseling services to youth between the age of 13 to 17, with the
goal of providing effective treatment and transitioning all youth
treated at the facility back to their families and communities.
Prior to construction of the campus, the state of North Carolina
was sending as many as 400 youth per year to out-of-state
facilities due to a lack of available recourses in the state.
The total project cost for this project was $8 million, with $2
million in EB-5 funds invested in the first lien private loan. In
addition to positive community impact of the Marshville campus,
this project successfully achieved its job creation goal of 73 full-
time jobs just halfway through the first year of operation, clearly
demonstrating the positive impact that EB-5 funds can have not
only through job creation but through serving society.
The significant synergy between the EB-5 program and
government-sponsored loan programs is driven by the shared
goals of servicing underserved areas of the U.S. economy
and promoting job growth. The marriage of the two creates a
blueprint for both successful EB-5 investment for financiers and
infusion of EB-5 funds into sectors of the U.S. economy where it
is most needed and where it can do the most good.
Raising EB-5 capital by leveraging government-sponsored loan
programs, selecting high quality loan projects, and closing and
servicing loans in a safe and stable way gives greater peace of
mind to both EB-5 investors and the qualified project owners,
which leads to overall EB-5 investment success.
JOHN SHEN
John Shen is the CEO of American Lending
Center LLC. He is a pioneer in the regional center
industry, where he’s introduced EB-5 capital to U.S.
government loan programs, such as the SBA 504
program. In October 2017, Shen won the “Coleman
SBA 504 Lender of the Year Award,” the annual award for the best small
business lenders. He founded American Lending Center LLC in 2009,
which received the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ regional
center designation in April 2010 and a California finance lender license in
November 2010.
JUSTIN B. BLACKHALL
Justin B. Blackhall is the founder of Blackhall
P.C. His practice focuses on the representation
of U.S. and international banks, and non-bank
lenders in financing transactions, capital raising
and compliance. It also specializes in the creation
and deployment of secondary market and securitized loan products that
represent SBA loan-related transaction lenders. Blackhall has closed
lending and finance transactions valued at more than $2 billion and has
raised more $500 million of private equity capital. He joined American
Lending Center LLC in 2013 as the vice president and finance counsel.
EB5INVESTORS.COM
74