Groundbreaking

Briarcliffe Manor Breaks Ground

DiPrete Engineering Provides Services

(l-r) Kyle Naylor, VP operations, Briarcliffe; Jennifer Space, architect, NEMD Architects, Inc.; Mehdi Khosrovani, president, NEMD; Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena; Benjamin Day, grandson of Akshay Talwar; Nisha Talwar, finance director, Briarcliffe; Akshay Talwar, president, Briarcliffe; Keb Brackenbury, sr. VP, team leader Bank RI; Scott Pray, sr. VP, D.F, Pray; Manny Barrows, sr. VP, team leader Bank RI; Dennis DiPrete, president, DiPrete Engineering; David Russo, PE, project mgr., DiPrete; and Ron Laprise, sr. VP, D.F. Pray

Johnston, RI – Briarcliffe Manor, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center and memory care assisted living provider has broken ground on a state-of-the-art assisted living residence. Known as The Preserve, it is the latest development phase of the continual transition of Briarcliffe Manor’s campus into a full-service Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC).

Briarcliffe has teamed with D.F. Pray General Contractors, NEMD Architects, and DiPrete Engineering to design and build The Preserve.

The new 49,500sf facility will feature 66-unit assisted living residences located north of Briarcliffe Manor and 84 new parking spaces located on Old Pocasset Road.

When complete, Briarcliffe’s campus will have transformed into a community including independent living, traditional assisted living, two memory care assisted living residences and a 122-bed skilled nursing facility.

DiPrete Engineering is providing site/civil engineering, permitting, surveying, and construction administration.

The Preserve at Briarcliffe Manor is expected to be complete in April 2021.