Hollenbach Construction, Inc. recently announced the recent groundbreaking on the Villa at Fleetwood, a three-story, 124-unit congregate-care and assisted-living facility located Blandon, Pennsylvania.  The Villa at Fleetwood will feature studio, 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom, month-to-month rental units that will include two meals served daily in the dining room, activities, housekeeping, transportation to local outings and many [...]

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Senior Star Living announced that it has completed a long-term agreement with Toledo-based Health Care REIT, Inc. (NYSE: HCN) to lease and operate the senior living community formerly known as The Stratford at Kenwood.  The 288-unit community, located on the bluffs of the Ohio River Valley in Northeast Cincinnati, provides a full continuum of care [...]

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HomeTowne on Wayside, a 161,000 square foot affordable senior living apartment community in the Settegast neighborhood of Houston, Texas, celebrated its grand opening last month with project team members, financial partners and the City of Houston representatives.  The $14.9 million community, developed by Integrated Real Estate Group, is the first of its kind in the [...]

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It seems that Canada’s senior housing market is in synch with the US according to data recently released in Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) Seniors Housing Report.  The survey showed that the vacancy rate rose slightly to 10.7% for the early part of 2010 in comparison to 10.2% for the same time period in [...]

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Oakland area citizens, religious leaders and politicians celebrated the June 25th ground breaking of a new 73-unit affordable housing development for senior citizens in downtown Oakland, California.  The project, expected to open in Fall 2011, will convert a former gas station site and an adjacent building that was once a medical marijuana dispensary into a [...]

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The Canadian government recently celebrated a grand opening and ground breaking for two new senior housing projects for low-income seniors.   Local politicians announced the opening of a $1.7 million project with 23 new affordable housing rental units for low-income seniors in Elgin County and the ground breaking for a new project for 52 units in [...]

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The city of Los Angeles and Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) recently celebrated the opening of the Manchester, a senior public housing community in South Los Angeles.  HACLA acquired the property with the intent to renovate the interior and exterior and transformed the apartment building into 27 one-bedroom senior apartments.  The [...]

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Renaissance Gardens at Riderwood in Silver Spring, Maryland announced that it will unveil its enhanced living, larger apartments and neighborhood model at the end of June.  Riderwood  residents have expressed a preference for apartment style living and the community’s management responded with redesigned Renaissance Gardens apartment homes that offer one-bedroom and two-bedroom models, kitchenettes with [...]

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Gardens and outdoor spaces play an important part in senior living architecture and design but what happens when there is no room to create a garden in an urban setting?  In Chicago, you head to the roof.  Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley has been supporting Chicago’s ‘green’ movement for many years and the city prides itself [...]

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Senior Living Investment Brokerage, Inc. facilitated the sale of a 54 Unit Independent Living Facility located in the city of Peru for $4.35 million, or approximately $80,555 per unit.  The facility, located approximately 69 miles north of Indianapolis and 60 miles west of Ft Wayne, was originally developed by a local hospital in 2000 and [...]

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Park Place of Elmhurst, a 12 acre community in the metropolitan Chicago area, announced that construction has begun and the official celebration of the groundbreaking ceremony will commence later this month as it has secured $174 million for financing construction of the facility.  The 173 one-, two- or three-bedroom apartment project has 80 percent of [...]

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St. Joseph’s Senior Apartments, a development by BRIDGE Housing Corporation, celebrated its groundbreaking in Oakland, California earlier this month and when construction is complete in June 2011, St. Joseph’s Senior Apartments will include 84 rental apartments for very-low-income seniors within the existing Main Building of the Oakland historic landmark. St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged [...]

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