Woodside Village in Cape Town, South Africa was built in 1996, but the community does not look the same today after extensive renovations and upgrades.  Situated in the Cape Town suburb of Rondebosch, Woodside Village. When Auria Senior Living took over in 2021, the company knew it needed to move mountains to improve the community, […]

With eight bespoke dining venues, Waterstone on High Ridge, a senior living community in Stamford, Connecticut, is all-in on resident choice. Owned by National Development and managed by Epoch Senior Living , the 184,000 square-foot community was completed in January of 2022. The community’s eateries range from formal to casual and are staffed by a […]

The first public high school in Southbridge, Massachusetts, is now housing for older adults, including some who walked the halls as students and others who taught there years ago. Thanks to a recent repositioning project, the former Mary E. Wells School in Southbridge has become The Residences at The Wells School. The senior living community […]

History has come to life at a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Maryland. The project, Modena Reserve at Kensington, had an overarching goal of preserving the history of Kensington, Maryland, and its ties to the B&O railroad that came to the town in 1891. The two-acre, infill site sits near Kensington’s historic district and […]

Some things about life in Charleston, South Carolina are slow to change. Known for its cobblestone streets, southern cuisine, and rolling beaches, the concept of preservation is celebrated by the historic city. Yet in the years leading up to the pandemic, Sarah Tipton, CEO of Bishop Gadsden, could sense that the 172 year-old Episcopal retirement […]

Nestled in the outer suburbs of Greater Philadelphia is a memory care community where residents can take in the outdoors and walk to their heart’s content. The community, Meadowwood in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, recently expanded with a new roughly 19,000 square foot memory care building that added 20 units of memory care and a variety of […]

A senior living project has transformed a nine-acre senior living campus in the heart of San Francisco into a new “social oasis” where wellness is at the forefront. The project, long anticipated and completed in 2021, added several new features to the 130-year-old San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living campus. The project included three parks, […]

The University of Washington Men’s rowing team stunned the world by taking a gold medal at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Nearly 90 years later, Aegis Living has distilled that Olympic spirit at an assisted living community just north of Seattle. The community, located on the east bank of Lake Union, does not simply include […]

Rising out of the Norfolk, Virginia skyline sits a new high rise designed for the Harbor’s Edge life plan community that raises the bar for urban senior living design.  The project, Harbor’s Edge River Tower, was conceptualized by developer and Harbor’s Edge CEO Neil Volder and meant as an expansion for the luxury life plan […]

For years, the senior living industry has taken front-of-house design cues from other industries, such as health care and hospitality. A new report from senior living architecture firm Perkins Eastman shows there’s much more operators can glean elsewhere in the community. The recently released report outlines several ways owners and operators can borrow inspiration from […]