By: Courtney Ryan For the last few years, the senior living industry has faced high construction costs and financing hurdles, slowing the development of new projects and communities. The memory care sector has been no exception. In the past, many operators would use each new community as a new blueprint for evolution or innovation. Given […]

Senior Housing News, a WTWH Healthcare publication, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Senior Housing News (SHN) Architecture & Design Awards (https://shnawards.com). Communities across the United States and the globe submitted new construction and renovation/repositioning projects this year, vying for top honors across 20 categories: “The entries for the 2024 SHN Architecture […]

Planning for the next generation of senior living residents propelled leaders at the Bay Village life plan community to pursue redevelopment to modernize the community on Florida’s Gulf Coast.  In updating outdated design at the 12-story community, sweeping amenities changes and space redesigns were made to refresh the building first built in 1975. A major […]

Friendship Village Tempe, a senior living community in Tempe, Arizona, is landlocked, with no horizontal room on which to grow. In 2023, LCS Development was looking to expand the community by replacing an outdated independent living building. Limited by the community’s ability to grow outward, the design team took the project vertical. The design that […]

There is plenty of innovation in architecture and design occurring in the U.S.-based senior living industry. The same is true across the globe. Forward-thinking architecture and design concepts were on display in three projects submitted to the 2023 Senior Housing News Architecture and Design Awards: Royal View by Auria Senior Living, Kunz Raubenheimer Architects and […]

In the Arizona desert sits a “serene oasis” of senior living: Overture Arcadia. Located near the center of Scottsdale, Arizona, the community’s spaces foster social connections among residents while adding 160 apartments. Central to the community’s design are resort-style amenities spanning 11,500 square feet in total that bring nature inside and promote resident well-being and […]

Rose Villa Senior Living has grown to include 22 acres across a garden campus in the Portland, Oregon area. Recently, the community completed the addition of two buildings at the heart of its urban core to improve resident wellbeing. Rose Villa expanded to accommodate new neighborhoods and updated community amenities in multiple phases. Its third […]

Not long ago, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa, needed help. More than 5,000 women have gone through the religious institution since its founding in 1889. Today, there are around 200 sisters in Dubuque, with an average age of 84. That lead the organization to the idea that its […]

Lancaster, Pennsylvania is no stranger to innovative senior living development, given the region’s history of deeper industry penetration rates and multitude of choices. An effort by Landis Communities to bring more middle-income senior living options was aimed at helping even more older adults find a place to call home, with sustainability in mind. Among the […]

The designers and project planners behind Brightview Dulles Corner had an overarching mission to foster interactions between residents and the outside world. With a location in the Washington, D.C. area and proximity to public transportation and green spaces, the community makes good on that mission. Today, the community pushes the “envelope of what senior housing […]