Senior housing is a big deal. Greater Downtown has several current and recent projects.
This is a good thing for Downtown. These complexes tend to have a lot of residents who lead active lives. They locate here not just due to hospitals but also due to the Symphony, shopping, restaurants, stadiums, and sometimes even colleges.
Tangent: When I was taking Spanish at Seattle Central around 1990, we saw film from the 70s about elections in South America that included a little old American lady. Afterward, a lady in our class said "you know, that was me". Turns out she was, in her 90s, taking Spanish so she could do a better job monitoring elections. Now, her name is on a high school on LQA (
www.hwhs.org), a nature preserve, an environmental organization (
www.hazelfilm.org), etc.
Anyway, with the aging of the baby boomers and the general downtown living trend, all good downtowns have a great opportunity to be busy retirement locations.