CREW Blue Ribbon Awards Program Book 2022

Harbor Chase of Evergreen Walk South Windsor, CT

Harbor Chase offers luxury assisted living and memory care services that encourages engagement for residents. The $26 million facility is located the heart of Evergreen Walk, which provides connectivity and walkability to local amenities. Harbor Chase also provides on-site a spa, a nature trail, outdoor exercise equipment, as well as an interior courtyard space with a putting green, fire pit, life size chess, and outdoor dining. The memory care unit provides direct access to an enclosed exterior garden, allowing resident to freely walk without the risk of wandering off-site. The memory care garden has been designed in a circular loop with no dead-end spaces to ensure residents can easily find their way through the garden. This is not a typical elder care facility built in the middle of nowhere, Harbor Chase was designed with connectivity at the core. Residents can maintain connection to the community and their families with a central location in Evergreen Walk. The location is directly adjacent to medical offices, a fitness club, and Costco. Further south is an active adults (55+) community, as well as multifamily housing. There were many site constraints to fit the entire program desired into the site while maintaining wetlands areas to the north. To overcome these obstacles, we incorporated the site constraints into our designs with nature walking paths and rain garden elements abutting the wetlands. It was also important to have the main entrance to the facility on Buckland Road, which was down grade of the site roughly 15 feet. Our engineers thoughtfully designed the entrance to ensure proper stormwater runoff as well as appropriate grading into the site. The $26 million project was designed on-time and within the budget. Green infrastructure was a large element of this site and landscape design. Throughout the site there are rain gardens strategically placed for residents’ enjoyment as well as green stormwater mitigation. On the north side, abutting the outdoor walking path entrance and outdoor recreation area, previous pavement has been incorporated into the design along with strategically placed rain gardens. Owner : Harbor Chase Size : 112,000 sf Project Team: Fuss & O'Neill, Confluent Development, Harbor Retirement Associates

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