Beatitudes Community

Clear Site—a Redevelopment Update

Thank you for the excellent turnout to the groundbreaking ceremony.  Your enthusiasm for the project only serves to fuel the contractor’s momentum.  We have completed just over 10% of the construction on the patio homes.  We are still performing underground utility work.  Once we are out of the ground, there will be a burst of visible activity.

Work has resumed on the Garden apartment demolition without the rain, and will wrap up this week or next.  Dust control is in effect at all times.

Again our team, Orcutt/Winslow and The Weitz Company, appreciate your enthusiasm and participation in the groundbreaking and beyond. Questions and information?  Contact Scott Mardian, [email protected]

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February 2019 Town Hall Recap

Read all about it! The latest recap of our February 2019 Community Town Hall is now available online for your reading pleasure!
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The Most Exciting Times

Beatitudes Campus is truly entering one of the most exciting times in its 54-year history as we celebrate the beginning of construction of our new 34 patio homes. I thought you might be interested in a little of the planning background for this new addition on the north and west perimeters of campus and we are so excited to welcome this new group of residents.

Research has shown and our history supports that this is one of the most often requested accommodations in a continuing care retirement community or life plan community, as we are now known. Many coming to see our presentations looked at a condo setting as they considered selling their larger homes and have reported five significant differences between patio homes and condos.

  1. Patio homes found in a senior living community, such as ours at Beatitudes Campus, are built specifically for post-career adults. Our patio home residents must be age 62+. At a condo, who will be your neighbor now and into the future? You have no control over that.
  2. Patio homes often include additional services and amenities. While you may pay a fee that you don’t have with a condo, you typically gain home maintenance, housekeeping, dining, daily activities, an aquatic center, etc., that are included within the senior living community. Home responsibility, maintenance and repair costs remain yours with a condo.
  3. Patio home floor plans typically do not include a basement nor stairways. They are designed for low maintenance with easily accessible garages, walkways and safety/security features.
  4. By being part of a community living neighborhood, a patio home comes with built-in security. For example, our patio homes are located within a gated community with security features throughout the campus and in the homes. You also gain a sense of neighborhood protection when you are part of a community. It can be hard to find this in a condominium unit or any stand-alone neighborhood.
  5. Patio homes often include services and amenities on site. We are a life plan community and our new homes have the continuing care benefit that so many find important. Within our campus, we offer services and accommodations for rehabilitation, therapy, assisted living, memory support and skilled nursing.

Most of our residents move into an independent living patio home while they are younger, healthy and active. If or when assistance or care is needed, they can stay within the community but move into an assisted living apartment or other care arrangement.

Being a life plan community allows our residents to always remain living in the community where they have built friendships, know the staff and feel at home.

At Beatitudes Campus, we have 3 different floor plans for one- or two-bedroom designs. Our patio homes feature attractive finishes, fully equipped kitchens, attached garages, and plenty of outdoor space both in the front and rear of each. We are excited to formally celebrate “spades in the ground” on February 21st at 10 A.M. as Michelle Just, CEO, the board, executive staff, the construction company, architects and our twenty -seven depositors all meet for a brief ceremony at the Myrtle Avenue sight that we are going to live-stream to the rest of the campus in the Life Center.

Please join us in the Luther Life Center anytime from 10:00AM—1:00PM for a come and go celebration complete with a light brunch menu. We will have numerous displays of information and our consultants and staff will be on hand to join in the festivities and answer questions. There will be more information posted on the community channel as we get closer to the date. In the meantime, please RSVP to Ali Shreeve, marketing assistant at 18467 so that we can plan appropriately. It’s going to be a great day!

 

Excavation, a Redevelopment Update

Earthwork on 17th Drive continues.  During work hours, 17th Drive northbound traffic will be closed for about 12 days as the underground utility excavation continues.   The permits for the patio homes were issued.  The demolition of the Garden Apts is progressing quickly.  Dust control is in effect at all times.  The rubble is being hauled off instead of being utilized as fill.  The change in plan is because the noise created during the crushing process was feared to be too loud for Central Park residents.  The contractor will still provide the expected credit for the savings for haul off costs, and the contractor will provide the fill at no cost to the Campus.  Additional questions and information?  Contact Scott Mardian, [email protected]

 

A Redevelopment Update

As many of you know:

The five homes along 17th Drive that served Dosia Carlson and many families so well since the 1970s, will give way to eight new Patio Homes.

The three homes on Myrtle that served the Elliot, Grundy, and Bill Nelson families so well, will give way to twenty-six new Patio Homes.

The testing and abatement of the Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM) were completed and the demolition of the structures is underway.

The demolition of the foundations and underground will continue next week.

The testing of the ACM in the Garden Apartments was completed.  The abatement will begin in mid-December.

More information on the Patio Home project and the Garden Apartment demolition will appear here every two weeks.

Additional questions and information? Contact Scott Mardian, [email protected].

 

Busy Behind the Scenes: A Redevelopment Update

While you don’t see shovels in the ground YET, know that there is plenty going on in regards to our redevelopment and master plan process.

I am sure you have noticed there has been plenty of activities—events, tours and meetings between our Marketing team, led by Rod Bailey, and our BeVIP members interested in the Patio Homes.