A Nebraska-based provider of independent senior living is making plans to move into the same east Shallowford Road neighborhood as Morning Pointe of Chattanooga and Creekside Senior Living with a new $40 million, 130-unit complex.
Resort Lifestyle Communities, headquartered in Lincoln, Neb., owns and operates 11 independent living facilities around the country, and is working up to 17. Five of the current and future facilities are located in the Southeast. There are two facilities in Tennessee, one in Georgia, one in Florida and one in North Carolina.
The company’s Evans, Ga., facility, called Marshall Square, burned in June, claiming the life of one resident.
That fire is still under investigation, but company officials said this week that precautions will be taken at each new facility, Chattanooga included, to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
“We want to be cognizant of the fact that we definitely had a catastrophe there,” said Jake McGlade, director of market research at Resort Lifestyle Communities. “The event is still under investigation. We haven’t heard yet what the initial cause was of that fire.”