New housing option for Vermont seniors opens in South Hero

SOUTH HERO, Vt. (WCAX) – A retirement neighborhood is increasing into its twenty seventh location in Vermont to assist seniors who want a spot to go.

“We’re simply so thrilled to have the ability to be right here and to let of us stay within the islands as they age, and now they’ll,” mentioned Kim Fitzgerald, the CEO of Cathedral Sq..

Fitzgerald says seniors in South Hero have been eager for a spot to get older within the Champlain Islands. Now, the group is partnering up with CIDER– Champlain Islanders Creating Important Assets– to make it potential to increase their location for residents wanting ahead to a brand new chapter in Bayview Crossing.

“I feel I’ll take pleasure in having individuals round me as a result of I used to be dwelling alone. This may give me the prospect to be the place individuals are,” mentioned Margaret Letzelter of South Hero.

The inception of the venture started 16 years in the past when CIDER and the neighborhood raised greater than $450,000 to start out the venture. In whole, it was price $8.5 million.

The brand new constructing has 30 flats and so they say it’s reasonably priced housing for individuals able to stay with different individuals their very own age.

“It’s a brand new change. My daughter felt it could be good to try to to be round individuals my very own age. To not be alone,” mentioned Diane Hauser of South Hero.

Neighborhood members on the grand opening of the power mentioned there’s lastly a spot for older Vermonters to be near their households.

Sen. Dick Mazza, D-Grand Isle, says it was a lot wanted.

“That is one thing out of all of the years I’ve represented the islands, it was one thing I at all times heard about. It was at all times a want to have their very own senior housing. They needed to have the ability to sometime retire or be in the identical neighborhood that they lived in for a very long time,” Mazza mentioned.

The situation is housing for these 55 and older. And so they say their ready listing is filling up rapidly with greater than 70 individuals ready to listen to again.

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