Seniors housing open house set for June 30

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Published on Friday, June 26, 2015

By Ken Waddell

The Neepawa Banner

Last fall, Zen Development held an open house at the former Neepawa-Gladstone Co-op grocery store to introduce their proposed 55Plus seniors housing project. The response was tremendous so the group went back to the drawing board to firm up their plans. Their next presentation to the public is on June 30 at the Yellowhead Centre at 7 p.m.

John Lavich, along with James and Carla Janzen, will be setting out their plans for a 24 unit seniors complex. The building will be attached to the old Co-op store on Mountain Avenue in downtown Neepawa.

After receiving input from the public last year, the group will be presenting options for 1, 2 and 3 bedroom units. The project calls for four levels with three floors of suites with eight suites per floor. The main floor will be for indoor parking and storage spaces.

Presented as 55Plus housing, the project is expected to meet a pent up demand for seniors housing. A large project jointly headed up by Neepawa and Area Development Corporation and Kinsmen Seniors Housing Inc. had a large number of people on a prospect list. That project didn’t go ahead as it didn’t get funding from Manitoba Housing. The Kinsmen group is laying out plans for a much different project for the former Eastview Lodge care home site on the east side of Neepawa.

Zen development is hoping that a large number of people will attend and are prepared to take deposits to book a particular suite and design layout  in the new project.