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Project details

a resort-type experience, the project team's
goal was to keep services, including food,
laundry, and housekeeping, from crossing with
residents in the corridors utilizing separate
front- and back-of-house spaces. "That's a
premium design feature," Berg says. "If you put
it out front and center, that's probably the least
expensive way to do it, but it doesn't give you
that hospitality feel."
Taking advantage of the natural grade of
the property, the project team also added a
discreet service drive behind the care buildings
to access a service core hub. "All food/beverage and housekeeping are centralized here
to create a more efficient operational model,"
Berg says. Supplies and materials are brought
in on a lower level and migrate vertically into the
community, while the main kitchen is adjacent
to the independent living dining venues and
accessible to the assisted living and memory
care floors through a service elevator. Smaller
satellite prep pantries serve the licensed care
dining venues.

bring views and daylight inside. Color palettes
and artwork themes vary between the floors
to help residents navigate the building. Units
in the assisted living neighborhood measure
300-400 square feet, and memory care offers
272-square-foot single studio suites and incorporates a centralized, secure courtyard. Each
neighborhood features similar amenity spaces,
such as a theater and library, that are scaled
appropriately to the setting.
Furthermore, the community's affiliations
with the Texas A&M University Health Science
Center and CHI St. Joseph Health MatureWell
Lifestyle Center provide residents with the
opportunity to access additional health,
rehabilitation, and wellness services via the
community transit program. This combination of curated offerings and high-end living
environments has made Parc's first venture
in Texas a success, Slavin says. "What we
wanted to do was provide a very high-end,

Project name: Parc at Traditions
Completion date: March 2018
Owner: Parc Traditions LP
Total building area: 186,000 sq. ft.
Construction cost: N/A
Cost/sq. ft.: N/A
Architecture: Three
Interior design: Studio Six5
Contracting: Rogers-O'Brien
Engineering: RLG Consultants (structural), PE
Services (MEP), Schultz Engineering (civil)
Construction: Rogers-O'Brien
Carpet/flooring: Shaw, Mohawk
Ceiling/wall systems: Armstrong
Wall coverings: Koroseal
Doors/locks/hardware: Assa Abloy
Door frames: American Direct Inc.
Auto sliding doors: Stanley Access Tech
Asphalt shingles: Tampko
Weather barriers: Tremco Barriers
OSB sheathing: LP
Fiber cement siding: James Harding (board
and batten)
Exterior materials: Mezger Enterprises
Project details are provided by the design team
and not vetted by Environments for Aging.

hospitality-enriched senior living experience,"
he says. "Even as we've moved from a pure
independent model back into assisted living
and now memory care, we've continued that
hospitality perspective and infused it into our
licensed care offerings." EFA
Anne DiNardo is executive editor of Environments
for Aging. She can be reached at anne.dinardo@
emeraldx.com.

With 80 percent of residents moving into assisted living or memory care coming from the
community's independent living neighborhood,
Parc wanted to ensure residents didn't experiences a step down in experience. As a result,
architectural detailing such as crown molding
and wood materials and the level of finishes in
the assisted living and memory care communities mirror those used in independent living.
"We have an obligation to maintain that level of
quality of experience throughout our lifestyle
continuum," Slavin says.
Residential unit sizes vary, with independent living apartments averaging 1,000
square feet with open floor plans and large
windows and balconies or porches to help
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Top: One- and two-bedroom independent living apartment homes feature open floor plans, with fully appointed
kitchens and premium finishes and fixtures. Above: The four-story independent living building is sited to take
advantage of the rustic woodland setting. Back-of-house operations are located discreetly, with deliveries and
employee entrances situated out of sight from the main entry.

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