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 Watermark Retirement Communities Plans New California Project Tucson, Arizona-based Watermark Retirement Communities and national development firm Oppidan Investment Company have partnered to build a […]
Perkins Eastman Architects
On a recent visit to a memory care community, Perkins Eastman Senior Associate Max Winters saw a resident with dementia attempting to go outside. But as the resident tried to open the door, they were gently stopped by an associate who insisted that it was too hot to go outside. To the untrained eye, such […]
As calendars flip to December, the exercise of reflecting on the past year and planning for the future is more necessary — and more difficult — than ever. How to sum up a year marked by Covid-19, protests for racial justice, and a presidential election, among other changes and upheavals? And what lessons can be […]
Memory care communities run the risk of feeling very institutionalized and similar to a lockdown facility, but now more than ever, developers and architects involved in memory care projects are adapting the small-house concept to communities to help residents thrive. The Dogwood Memory Care Neighborhood in Bloomfield, Connecticut, did just that, in addition to designing the community around […]
As baby boomers steadily creep up in age, the number of older adults requiring memory care is expected to balloon as well. Though this may come as welcome news to memory care communities nationwide, most of them aren’t necessarily up to the task of properly taking care of boomers, according to some experts. There are […]
Time is running out to enter your community to the 2016 Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards. Nominations are now open for the 2016 competition, but hurry—all entries must be submitted by November 11, 2016. This highly-anticipated awards competition returns for the fourth year to recognize cutting-edge design, excellence and quality in senior living […]
Construction: Planned $75 Million CCRC Planned for Long Island, N.Y. Plans have been proposed for a new Life Plan Community, Fountaingate Gardens, in Commack, Long Island. The community will include spacious one-and two- bedroom residences in two buildings called The Parkview and The Terraces. Some will include dens and balconies as well as landscaped grounds and […]
Construction: Planned Texas Developers Plan Fort Worth Senior Living Community Dallas-based HealthCap Partners LLC and Fort Worth-based Hillwood Properties plan to develop a senior living community in Alliance Town Center in Fort Worth, Dallas Business Journal reports. The initial phase of construction would consist of 60-units of the senior living community, 40 of which would […]
Construction: Planned Foreign Investment Program Propels Assisted Living Project With the help of a program that recruits foreign investors, Ridgeline Management Group is looking to break ground on a senior living community in Oregon as early as mid-summer, reports the Albany Democrat Herald. The 92-bed assisted living community will be a three-story 72,000-square-foot building on […]