ACTS Retirement-Life Communities plans to invest $300
million over the next three years to renovate many of its properties as a way
to compete against other firms providing similar offerings to the aging
population and attract the next big group of retirees: baby boomers.
In general, some of the renovations include casual dining
bistros, expanded fitness centers and, in addition to larger apartments, it
will also offer residents single-family houses to appeal to a “younger
generation of seniors.”
Locally, the nonprofit owner and operator of continuing-care
retirement communities expects to spend $120 million making upgrades to eight
of its properties in Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery counties. For example, it
will invest about $40 million in Granite Farms Estates in Media, Pa., putting
in a new café, fitness center, heated indoor pool and larger apartments.
“The next wave of seniors who will be moving into our
communities have different expectations not just in activities they prefer but
how they want to live,” said Mark Vanderbeck, ACTS CEO, in a statement. “The
retirement communities that will thrive in the future will offer greater
choice, flexibility, and customization that the next generation of retirees
will demand.”
Vanderbeck and Gerald T. Grant, president and chief
operating officer, spoke to PBJ.com last fall about the challenges the West
Point, Pa., nonprofit faces and where it was headed.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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