Guest blog by Melissa Pritchard of SFCS Architects Our series on the master planning process explores the necessity of conducting market research before starting a master plan for a senior living start-up, repositioning or expansion. While we will discuss more details...
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4 Practical Ways to Build Financial Flexibility into a Senior Living Master Plan
Guest blog by Craig Witz, President of Witz Company Our series on the master planning process explores the necessity of conducting market research before starting a master plan for a senior living start-up, repositioning or expansion. We’ve also explored the...
Exploring the Team-Based Approach to Senior Living Master Planning
If your organization has decided to grow and therefore make a sizeable investment in the future, it creates an exciting opportunity to advance the organization’s mission while increasing its capacity to enhance the lives of older adults. The scale of an expansion or...
Development Planning Success for Senior Living
Getting ready to start the development planning process for a senior living project? Developing, marketing, selling, and operating a successful senior living project (active 55+, Life Plan Community, retirement community, continuing care retirement community, senior...
The Sales Center of the Future… What Will it Look Like?
For many years, the sales centers of senior living communities and home builders have contained similar elements. Floor plans, site plans, architectural renderings and samples of flooring, cabinets and countertops have been available for prospects to view. Often, a...
Seven Factors for Selling Blue Sky or Expansions
Like many of you who have had interviews for sales positions, you’d often get thrown a question like, “Sell me this pen.” And you had to demonstrate your sales skills to convince the interviewer that you could easily sell him his own pen. But, I think the better...
Does Your Contract Have an “Eminent Domain” Clause?
By Rob Love, President I was talking with the CEO of a Life Plan Community recently, and he told me how his community’s master planning process had come to a screeching halt. He had spent months working with an architect and a development consultant to create options...
Senior Housing Trends: Part IV
Senior Housing Healthcare and Housing Technology Trends By Tom Mann, Executive Vice President In the fourth installment of our Senior Housing Trends Series, we will be looking at the future of health care and home technology as it relates to retirement communities....
Senior Housing Trends: Part I
By Tom Mann, Principal, Executive Vice President, Strategic Marketing Services With the senior living industry rapidly changing, it’s important for your retirement community to anticipate the changes, and be prepared for what’s to come. In this multi-part series,...
Lessons on Attracting New Talent in Aging Services
By Susan Dolton, Vice President, Sales Services A colleague of mine recently suggested I watch Simon Sinek’s Ted Talk titled, “How Great Leaders Inspire Action.” Mr. Sinek explains his theory that businesses and leaders succeed because they understand their “why” (the...
Avoid the “Catch-22” by Investing in Your Community
By Rob Love, President and CEO It happens over and over: Love & Company is called in to help a community overcome a census challenge, and we find that the community has not kept up with the times. Residence and amenity areas are tired with out-of-date finishes,...