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The new owner of Stratford House promised to invest $3.5 million to expand services and upgrade the senior living facility when it changed hands in July 2016 — and on Tuesday, the top-to-bottom renovations at Commonwealth Senior Living at Stratford House were unveiled. The grand, old building — built in 1884 and added on to several times over during its life as a women’s college and senior living center — has fresh paint, new carpet, furniture and décor. And many rooms have been repurposed to make moving around to various activities easier for the residents while adding more amenities. Even residents’ apartments were renovated. The combination of independent living and assisted living apartments means residents in independent living apartments who need to move into quarters where intensive care is offered only move a short distance and are still in familiar surroundings. *** Resident Ed Smith joined Richard Brewer , CEO of the Commonwealth Senior Living facilit...

By: News Staff Email: news@abc6.com Twitter: @ABC6 CUMBERLAND, R.I. (WLNE) — Cumberland Fire officials are investigating what caused a fire in a senior living facility Thursday afternoon . According to officials at the Brookdale Senior Living facility , located on Old Diamond Hill Road , there was a fire in an apartment around 1:30 p.m. Fire crews responded and required the building to be evacuated. No injuries were reported from either residents or associates. “Those residents who are displaced due to the fire and water damage will be relocated to other living spaces. We are grateful to our associates who responded quickly and assisted residents to exit from the building safely,” said Heather Hunter with Brookdale Senior Living Inc. The investigation is ongoing. ©WLNE-TV / ABC6 2017

CONCORD — Carlton Senior Living, which plans to expand its Concord housing complex , recently bought from the city a vacant lot that sits behind the Park & Shop shopping center . The Concord- based firm agreed to pay the city $380,000 — the full appraised fair market value — for a 9,600-square-foot parcel at the corner of Sutter and Harrison streets. The property is adjacent to Carlton’s 152- unit independent living apartment building at 1700 Broadway. Carlton owns 11 senior housing communities in Concord, Pleasant Hill, Davis, San Leandro, San Jose, Fremont, Sacramento and Elk Grove. The Concord complex is the only one without a memory care or assisted living component , said Todd Kemerly, senior vice president of sales and marketing. Combining the city’s parcel with a second property Carlton plans to buy at 2051 Harrison St., will provide space for the company to build approximately 30 units for seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. “The intent is ...

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The Town Council gave its unanimous approval for a development agreement and the concept plan for the proposed Copper Ridge senior living development at its regular session on Aug. 18. The proposal would develop the vacant 12.24-acre site that wraps around the Bashas’ shopping center. The new development would be built along Avenue of the Fountains from LaMontana Drive to Westby Drive and north along Westby to Palisades Boulevard. The project is planned for three phases, the first of which would be a 132- unit age restricted (62 and older) complex at Avenue of the Fountains and Westby. The initial phase also includes a 19,000 square- foot community clubhouse , parking and a park/drainage detention facility along Westby. Phase II includes a two-story, 80, 000 square foot assisted living facility with 60 living units and 52 memory care/physical rehabilitation beds. A commercial component would make up Phase III at opposite ends of the site. A 12,000 square- foot commercial retai...

Bethany Lutheran Homes broke ground Monday on its largest undertaking — a $ 28 million senior housing project in South La Crosse that will include hospice suites as well as regular apartments. Eagle Crest South , modeled after Bethany’s Eagle Crest North in Onalaska, will feature a Town Center with dining rooms, a café/bistro, a chapel, an auditorium, a health and wellness center, a convenience store, a movie theater, a botanical garden and heated underground parking , said Bethany CEO Todd Wilson . “Town Center will be the hub of community life,” Wilson said in an interview after the dedication and groundbreaking. “The longest walk to Town Center will be 150 feet.” The four-story, 212,660-square-foot facility at 622 Bennora Lee Court will have 144 apartments, including 12 hospice units called Serenity Home with 24-hour end-of- life nursing care . Wilson likened the facility to a fine hotel, fostering social and recreational activities for its residents. Eagle Crest North , whi...

But young people may not be fully aware of the "great opportunities" that await them in this sector of the job market, said Gisi, whose company owns and operates senior living facilities across the Upper Midwest. "People realize that there will be a lot more people in old age, but they don't see the lack of workers available to care for those people, what with the birth rate collapsing in the early '70s," said Gisi. Edgewood owns and operates assisted -living and memory- care facilities in 55 communities. "There'll be a significant need for health care workers in all of our communities," he said. "The demand will continue to grow." The time frame of 2020 to 2040 will be a period of significant aging of the population, based on U.S. Census data, which will dramatically increase the demand for senior housing and health care. In that time period, the number of people who are 65 or older will increase by 46 percent. "There will...

Cumberland firefighters respond to the Brookdale senior living community on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. (WJAR) CUMBERLAND, R.I. —  Firefighters were called to a senior living facility in Cumberland on Thursday afternoon. No injuries were reported. The fire was contained to a third-floor apartment at Brookdale, but sprinklers in the building went off. Residents were temporarily moved to a dining hall while the flames were put out. A spokeswoman said residents who were displaced because of fire and water damage will be relocated to other living spaces. The cause of the fire wasn't immediately known.

Work is progressing on some high profile housing developments in Terre Haute, but one project is on hold, another has been delayed and a third scaled back.. A shortage of skilled labor and rising lumber costs prompted Thompson Thrift to shelve a planned $28 million, 232- unit expansion of Sycamore Terrace apartments , off New Margaret Drive, according to Paul Thrift, company president. And, after an initial start date set for earlier this year, Carmel- based Mainstreet Student Living is now looking to begin construction in April on a $20 million, 162-unit complex near Union Hospital with completion in August 2019. Mainstreet’s project was pushed back “in an effort to ensure our partners could execute our plans and guarantee an on-time opening,” said Justin Farris, managing director. A third project involving market rate apartments on Sidenbender Road near 25th Street and Margaret Avenue has been reduced in scope with construction scheduled to begin next spring on...

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Ruth Bennett woke up at 1 a.m. and looked through the doorway of her independent living apartment in Walker, about 20 miles west of Baton Rouge. It was Aug. 13, 2016, and rain had been pouring down for two days. Bennett was worried about her car flooding. She saw water creeping up to the parking lot, but her  car looked safe . She crawled back into bed.  Two hours later, one of the employees of Southern Pines Retirement Community  was pounding on Bennett's door. Not only had Bennett's car flooded, the facility was surrounded by water. The employee told Bennet to grab what she needed, including her medicine. "In two hours it had come from nothing," Bennett recalled recently . "It was very frightening, especially when you're old." The elderly and children are among the most vulnerable populations to extreme weather events . That's in part because they often do not have the ability to mobilize quickly or on their own, and they're at a greater risk...

Susan Mall of San Francisco recalls how her late mother, Alyne Salstone, came to choose her oceanview Sloan’s Curve condominium. Her parents had previously resided at another South End apartment down the coastal road at The Ambassador. “When my parents first came to Palm Beach from Chicago, they lived at The Ambassador, and then the Sloan’s Curve (development) was built, and, my mother loved that location,” Mall recalls. >> PHOTOS: Oceanview Sloan’s Curve condominium at 2100 S. Ocean Blvd. After her husband, Milton, died in 1980, Salstone decided to make Florida her primary home. She bought an apartment in Sloan’s Curve. She ultimately sold it, and later bought the one that was her home until her death a year ago. “Over the years, she made many friends, and played lots of bridge games,” her daughter recalls. Mall and one of her brothers are now in possession of the condo at No. 307-S at 2100 S. Ocean Blvd. It has been put up for sale, priced at $1.345 million by agent Cristina ...

Nova Classical Academy )" width="718" />(Courtesy of Nova Classical Academy ) Off West Seventh Street , a charter school and an apartment developer have bumped heads over building heights. By a vote of 6-0, the St. Paul City Council on Wednesday declined to side with Nova Classical Academy in a dispute over the height of a proposed apartment building at 763 Kay Ave. Chase Real Estate , which has opened two apartment buildings in the new Victoria Park neighborhood , has proposed a third building of four floors and 50 units. Nova, a K-12 charter school, recently appealed a decision of the planning commission, which allowed changes to the Victoria Park Master Plan to accommodate the proposed building height of up to 49.5 feet. The master plan had previously envisioned the site to someday host 13 townhomes with a maximum height of 40 feet. The Chase proposal , recently amended, calls for 50 apartments with a maximum building height of 45 feet. The structure heigh...

The sale of apartment complexes continues throughout the Charleston region. Most recently, Atlanta-based Radco Cos. paid $22.9 million for the 198-unit former Woodbridge Apartment Homes in West Ashley. The complex at 2040 Ashley River Road is now called Radius at West Ashley . The sale price included $14.1 million in mortgage debt, according to Charleston County property records . The purchase marks the company's sixth acquisition this year and its second multifamily asset in the Charleston region. It also owns Greenwood at Ashley River at 6520 Dorchester Road. The previous owner of Radius at West Ashley was New Jersey-based  Raia Properties , which paid $14.5 million for the complex in 2006. Radco Residential will manage Radius. Radco plans to spend $3 million, or about $15,000 per unit, to upgrade the community. It was built in separate phases in 1972 and 2003 in 11 buildings on 16 acres. Renovations will include cabinetry, appliances, flooring, lighting, countertops and pa...