Devries Place Senior Apartments was recognized by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) as a 2009 Awards For Excellence:  The Americas winner for its efforts on land planning use, design and sustainability.  The 103 unit rental apartment homes located in Milpitas, California, near the southern end of San Francisco Bay, provides housing and amenities for low […]

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Ingleside at King Farm, a $175 million planned community in Rockville, Maryland covering 14 acres, celebrated its grand opening last month.  The facility is located near the DC metropolitan area and provides a wide variety of senior apartments to fit a variety of needs and includes 10 different floor plans and has a total […]

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Horizons at Indio, an affordable housing community developed by Urban Housing Communities (UHC) and Heritage Community Housing (HCH), celebrated its achievement of honorable mention in the senior housing category of the 15th Annual Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Awards program.  The Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award is a national awards program presented […]

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The Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Assisted Living celebrated its grand opening last month in Somerville, Massachusetts and was attended by local and state dignitaries that came to praise the grand opening of this 99 unit facility. 
As the first assisted living facility in the country to use HUD 202 funding for construction of a senior […]

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Senior Quality Lifestyles Corporation (SQLC), owner of upscale not-for-profit retirement communities throughout Texas, has announced the project team for Mirador, Corpus Christi’s first and only life care retirement community.  The Mirador will be an all-inclusive community featuring 110 independent living apartment homes and 40 private assisted living suites, 40 private rooms for dignified nursing care, […]

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CJE SeniorLife, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago/Jewish United Fund, recently announced: Karmel, the first Jewish-sponsored continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in the Chicago area, with plans to open in 2012.  The full continuum of care community, to be located on the present Weinberg Community for Senior Living property in Deerfield, Illinois […]

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Have you seen the I-go and Zipcar zooming around your town lately?  Some retirement communities such as CCRCs and assisted living facilities are examining whether the car-share concept is portable to retirement communities?  Many facilities are recognizing that seniors have these assets and their cars are idle for much of the time they are […]

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Members of the the Fayetteville Public Housing Authority recently voted to apply for a $262,000 grant from a federal Affordable Housing Pogram (AHP) for the installation of solar power technology for the proposed $1.6 million, 24-unit assisted-living center according to the Northwest Arkansas Times.  The project would be the region’s first solar-powered, senior housing project […]

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The McGregor Foundation is sponsoring an upcoming design charette April 16-19 in Clevland, Ohio with the goal of increasing opportunities for innovative affordable senior housing within three neighborhoods surrounding Cleveland’s University Circle.  The Greater Circle Seniors competition will provide four sites that have specific strengths and weaknesses that design teams will need to address. 
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A few weeks ago, Curlin Commons, a 40-unit apartment community dedicated to serving seniors with low incomes, celebrated its ground breaking at Freedom Christian Center in Mooresville, NC.  Culrin Commons is being developed through the joint efforts of the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte Housing Corporation and The Affordable Housing Group of NC, Inc.  The project […]

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Birchez Associates LLC, announced the start of construction for of The Birches at Chambers, a $15 million, green-friendly 66-unit development for seniors. The new senior housing project will be LEED® certified and comprised 52 one-bedroom and 14 two-bedroom units.  Eight of the units will be income directed and the remaining 58 units are set according […]

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WinnCompanies, a Boston-Based developer of senior housing and affordable housing, recently announced completion of solar power installations at seven locations in the New England area.  The installations are on on two projects in the region, one of which is a 75 unit senior housing facility in New Bedford that has a mixture of one and […]

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