Senior Living Operators Embrace Cottages, Pocket Neighborhoods While External Growth Remains Hard

Senior living development is anything but easy in 2026, which is why some operators are adding pocket neighborhoods, expanding independent living and memory care and planning other new projects to expand their existing campuses. These new projects typically are aimed at either end of the senior care continuum, ranging from adding lifestyle-focused independent living to […]

In the Pipeline: LifeSpire Plans Growth in Virginia; Distinctive Living Starts Work in New Jersey

In the Pipeline is part of your SHN+ subscription In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting-edge design, excellence, and innovation in senior living. Construction: Planned Wendover Housing Partners plan new affordable development  Wendover Housing Partners has started construction on Legacy […]

Movers and Shakers: LifeSpire of Virginia Welcomes Board Members; Distinctive Living Promotes SVP

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In the Pipeline: Cedarhurst Announces Nebraska Project; LifeSpire Expands in Virginia

In the Pipeline is part of your SHN+ subscription In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting-edge design, excellence, and innovation in senior living. Construction: Planned Expansion planned for Virginia community LifeSpire of Virginia announced plans to expand the Lakewood in […]

Movers and Shakers: Hutson Joins Ascension Living; Zimmer Returns to Bridgewood Property Co. 

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9 Quotes That Defined Senior Living in 2024 and Suggest What 2025 Holds

With positive momentum on occupancy and margin in 2024, the senior living industry is poised to capitalize on incoming demand — but many challenges remain. These challenges include still-tough development conditions as the supply and demand gap widened this year, which led to investors and developers in the space mostly shying away from rapid new […]

Growing Demand, Skilled Nursing Conversions Push Life Plan Communities to Expand Memory Care

As life plan communities seek to best position themselves to capture future demand, many are honing growth strategies, including swapping skilled nursing for other product types, including memory care. Memory care offerings in life plan communities have grown at a slower pace in recent years compared to non-life plan communities. According to NIC Head of […]

‘Consumer has Changed’: Senior Living Operators Adjust CapEx Strategies for a New Generation

Hear more insights on CapEx and other topics from industry veterans at our upcoming ReBUILD event in Chicago on November 20 and 21. Tickets are available here. As new development remains tough to work out, senior living operators are shifting growth priorities and focusing on internal repositionings, renovations, and investing in key infrastructure to capture […]

In the Pipeline: Kisco Completes Maryland Community; LifeSpire of Virginia Expanding

In the Pipeline is part of your SHN+ subscription In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting-edge design, excellence, and innovation in senior living. Construction: Planned LifeSpire of Virginia starts on $25 million renovation The Glebe, a LifeSpire of Virginia community, […]