Senior housing closer to Turtle Lake

Pioneer Press Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:12:23 -0700
Forest Lake / Senior homes join planned community

Forest Lake will get its first town-within-a-town senior housing complex this spring when a 276-unit facility opens in the southwestern part of the city. If everything goes as planned, the complex will be smack in the middle of the city's first fully planned community, the 620-acre Headwaters Development. Shops, recreational facilities, mass transit and homes are expected to sprout up nearby in the coming years. About three-fourths of the senior units will be at market rates, and the rest will be for low- and moderate-income senior citizens. "Seniors have been an area of the population that have not gotten much attention," said Forest Lake Mayor Stev Stegner. "It is important for seniors to be near the services they'll be using." The units will be across from the new county library and government center on Forest Road North, just off U.S. 61. The senior complex has two parts - one run by the private company Walker ElderCare Services and the other by the Washington County Housing and Redevelopment Authority.

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