Kalamazoo -
This news is over a month old now, but it's worth tracking on here. Friendship Village - one of the region's most well-established & desirable senior living communities - has shared some major development plans that could kick-off fall 2025. Plans include include as many as ten new buildings, that would result in a net total of 428 units across the 75-acre campus
located on N Drake Rd -
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Senior living facility plans 10 new buildings in Kalamazoo
Audrey Whitaker | MLive
September 4, 2024
KALAMAZOO, MI -- Developers at a Kalamazoo senior living facility are planning additional meetings with residents after some components of a new project angered neighbors. The 72-acre campus at 1400 N. Drake Road welcomed its first residents in 1975. Nearly 50 years later, Friendship Village officials are planning a major update to expand the facility...
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Per the article, proposed work would include:
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- Demolition of an existing maintenance building, a guard shack, two garages, a three-story independent living wing and a single-story skilled nursing wing
- Construction of 40 unit, single-story skilled nursing facility
- Construction of a three-story, 80 unit independent living building with underground parking
- Construction of two, three-story independent living additions, a total of 110 units
- Construction of four, single-story garden homes with basements
- New sidewalks, landscaping, outdoor amenity spaces and surface parking areas
- Construction of a two parking garages
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Everything shown in white in the below master plan would be new -
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MLive | City of Kalamazoo