The Residence at Five Corners, a senior living community in Easton, Massachusetts, is the latest project being undertaken by developer LCB Senior Living, LLC, and The Congress Companies, a full-service construction firm that specializes in senior living projects. The 84,000 square-foot, 74-unit community will offer independent living and assisted living apartments (studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom), along with common areas that include comfortable living rooms, a library, cafés, and an exercise room. Residents will also enjoy access to private dining, entertainment, and recreation activities. A separate memory care wing will have its own common areas and amenities in a secure environment. The Architectural Team of Chelsea, Massachusetts, is the designer of the project. Construction will begin this summer, with completion expected by late 2015.
LCB Senior Living, LLC, based in Norwood, Massachusetts, is a developer/owner/operator of senior living communities throughout New England, with four currently in operation in Massachusetts and one each in New Hampshire and Rhode Island. An additional six communities are in development: two in Massachusetts and two in Connecticut, expected to open in fall 2014 or early 2015; another in Connecticut and the new project in Massachusetts, expected to open by late 2015.
The Congress Companies, headquartered in Peabody, Massachusetts, has been a family business since general contractors—and brothers—Peter and Paul Nicolson founded the company some 60 years ago. Among their claims to fame was having built more than 200 Howard Johnson, Ground Round, and Red Coach Grille restaurants and 80 Howard Johnson hotels in and around New England and elsewhere in the Northeast. Now owned and operated by a second generation of Nicolsons, The Congress Companies followed market demands and transitioned smoothly into the senior living/health-care and multifamily industries. So far, the company has completed more than 80 projects in those markets.
In addition to The Residence at Five Corners in Easton, Massachusetts, LCB is working with The Congress Companies on three of its senior living development projects currently under construction: The Residence at Riverbend, a 75-unit senior living community in Ipswich, Massachusetts; The Residence at Brookside, a 74-unit community in Avon, Connecticut; and The Residence at South Windsor Farms, an 80-unit community in South Windsor, Connecticut.
