Tag: SeniorLiving
Renovation Complete on $18.7M Affordable Housing Complex
Lynn, MA – WinnCompanies, a multifamily development and management company, has completed a $18.7 million rehabilitation of the Cobbet Hill apartments in Lynn, significantly renovating 117 units of affordable housing for families and seniors, creating new common areas and amenity spaces, and modernizing the building’s key systems. Lynn Mayor Thomas M. McGee joined company executives […]
New Assisted Living Facility Planned
Newton, MA – Erland Construction has partnered with PWC Companies and JSA Inc. to construct a new four-story assisted living and memory care community for Sunrise Senior Living at the corner of Washington and Hovey streets in Newton. The ground-up building will offer 85 suites serving up to 108 residents. Each residence is specifically constructed […]
Brightview Senior Living Completes Construction
Portsmouth, NH – JSA Inc., an architecture, planning and interior design firm, recently worked with Brightview Senior Living to complete the first one of five JSA-designed senior living communities in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. With a total of 143 apartment homes, the community includes 70 independent apartment homes, 47 dedicated assisted living apartment […]
Trending the Senior Living Market
by Tom Quinlan Senior living. There’s not a more coveted market to be in, even though it’s still relatively new. The first assisted living facilities popped up in the late ’80s in the Pacific Northwest. Basically, it’s been nonstop construction across the country ever since in anticipation of the Baby Boomers coming of age. We […]
Creating Viable Options for Senior Communities
by Anne Crooker Woburn, MA – In the recent past, relatively few viable residential options for seniors existed within central cities or densely developed urban areas, but that is slowly changing. Allen & Major Associates, Inc. (A&M) has been active in the creation of several of these communities throughout Mass. and N.H. and has been […]
Historic Bldg. Renovated for Sr. Living
by David Griffin A 196-year-old, 20,000sf building in Newton, Mass., will soon serve as a home to senior and guest residents. The historic five-story structure, known as Farwell Hall, is now part of a 55,000sf senior living community that was upgraded for Benchmark, a provider of senior living in the Northeast, by Erland Construction […]
A Bigger Small House for Memory Care
by Myles Brown Research is critical to good architectural design, not only when it comes to materials and processes, but to understanding deeply just how our work affects clients and users. Perhaps nowhere is this more important than in designing facilities for seniors, particularly those suffering from dementia or memory issues. New practices and theories […]
New Pond Village Renovation Completed
Walpole, MA – JSA Inc., an architecture, planning and interior design firm, worked with Benchmark Senior Living recently to renovate the interiors of New Pond Village, a 30-year-old senior living community. JSA began working on this property with the previous owner in 2012 to reposition New Pond Village with an overall interior master plan looking […]
Massachusetts “Resident-Focused” Senior Living Campuses Completed
Andover & Sudbury, MA – JSA Inc., an architecture, planning and interior design firm, worked with Epoch Senior Living and National Development to make their newest senior living campuses in Massachusetts a reality. Bridges® by Epoch in Sudbury, a 43,088sf structure, consists of three, 18-unit (20 bed) households. Bridges® by Epoch in Andover, a 55,450sf […]
Senior Center Earns LEED Certification
Hamden, CT – The Middletown Senior/Community Center has earned Silver certification in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), from the U.S. Green Building Council. The architectural, engineering, and interior design firm on the project was Silver / Petrucelli + Associates. The $5 million facility, which opened in 2015, earned 50 points across several sustainable […]
