Boom-time Build

Baby boomers will be retiring in droves over the next decade and beyond. When they decide they want to spend their golden years in the Florida sun, Village on the Isle wants to be ready.

To make sure that happens, the 35-year-old nonprofit continuing-care retirement community in Venice, in south Sarasota County, is in the early stages of a 10-year, $100 million expansion of its 16-acre campus.

“We have to get ready for the next generation of seniors,” says Kristen Myers, sales and marketing director for Village on the Isle. “And it's definitely a different generation. They want a lot more choices and much more space, and they have certain amenities they'd expect to be standard. They're not afraid to leave their houses, but they're going to have higher expectations of what that's going to look and feel like.”