Iowa City, IA
Growing demand for housing Iowa City area senior citizens, has led Oaknoll to build a $55 million expansion just west of its current facility. The new housing units will welcome another 100 individuals to the senior living facility for a total of 380 individuals. The 235,965-square-foot expansion includes 69 apartments, a restaurant, community room, lounge, studio classroom space, meeting rooms and 140 underground parking spaces. Two new duplexes will be separate from the facility.
The apartments will range in size from 657 square feet to 1,461. The cost of the unit varies from $180,000 to $388,000, which includes the facility's continuing life care.
The expansion will be built directly west of the facility on a block bordered by George, Spring and Benton streets and Oakcrest Avenue. The expansion will be connected to the main building by a sky walk. The expansion requires the removal of more than a dozen homes. Rather than demolish the homes, Oaknoll hopes to work with Habitat for Humanity to have the homes moved to another location. Such measures have been taken with previous expansions.
This is Oaknoll's second largest expansion in less than a decade. In 2004, the senior living facility broke ground on its George Street expansion, which was similar in size to the proposed Spring Street expansion.
Shive-Hattery is providing architectural and interior design, structural, mechanical, electrical and site engineering, landscape architecture and land surveying.
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