The Chatfield senior-living facility in West Hartford is preparing for a more than $20 million, 75,000-square-foot expansion that will accommodate 84 more assisted-living and memory-care residents and add some 40 permanent jobs.
The real estate investment trust landlord Ventas Inc. and operator Brookdale Senior Living Inc. say construction will soon start on a three-story building with 50 assisted-living apartments at its campus at 1 Chatfield Drive. That building will be linked to a new, single-story building providing specialized care for up to 34 residents with Alzheimer’s and related dementias.
The assisted-living and Alzheimer’s facilities will feature separate dining areas, with an adjacent café. Both buildings’ amenities will include spa and salon areas, activity and living rooms, an assisted-living fitness area and a secured outdoor courtyard for dementia care residents.
The new buildings also will be connected to Chatfield’s 26-year-old independent living community that has 117 living units, and whose upgrades will include the creation of a bistro. About 70 work there now.
Ventas is funding the project set for completion in early 2016.
Perspectus Architecture out of Cleveland, Ohio is the designer. General contractor is JE Dunn Construction of Kansas City, Mo.
Brookdale operates nine other senior-living and memory-care facilities in Farmington, Glastonbury, Rocky Hill, South Windsor, Torrington, West Hartford, Wilton and Woodbridge.
