Gulf Coast senior housing projects demonstrating renewed energy as pandemic wanes

Sarasota's LaVerne and Naples' Goodlette Arms Apartments' renovation are part of a growing trend around the region

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 12:00 p.m. June 24, 2021
COURTESY RENDERING — Integrated Development II, of Chicago, has proposed a seven-story senior housing rental complex in downtown Sarasota, which would be the city's first.
COURTESY RENDERING — Integrated Development II, of Chicago, has proposed a seven-story senior housing rental complex in downtown Sarasota, which would be the city's first.
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The COVID-19 pandemic stalled new senior housing projects nationwide and throughout Florida, but with vaccination rates on the rise and the health crisis abating statewide, developers are now working on new offerings around the Gulf Coast.

 

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