AIRDRIE, ALTA. — A new seniors lodge project has been announced for Airdrie.
The Rocky View Foundation, an affordable home provider for seniors, plans to repurpose a distressed hospitality facility into 96 housing units by 2022.
Pending zoning approval for the conversion, the Hamptons Inn & Suites in Airdrie will be redeveloped and converted to seniors’ lodge units ranging from studio to two-bedroom. The project is expected to create 150 construction and permanent operational jobs.
The foundation noted that with the pandemic putting many hospitality sector facilities out of business, their spaces can be repurposed for other things.
To plan the project, Rocky View Foundation and Abrio Health assembled a pro-bono team of development and program planning partners — M3 Development Management, Western Management Consultants, MillarForan, and MTA Urban Design Architecture — who identified the steel and concrete hotel in the area that was no longer financially viable for continuing hospitality operations. The team then came up with a plan to transform the space into seniors housing.
According to the foundation, many of Alberta’s existing seniors’ lodges require a land gift, a large capital grant, or operational funding from the project. This project aims to manage the acquisition, renovation and operations through private sector financing and municipal requisitions without a need for a capital construction grant.
“This is an excellent example of Alberta’s Recovery Plan that will create jobs and an exciting day for Airdrie’s seniors who will in future be able to remain in their own community,” said Josephine Pon, Alberta minister of seniors and housing, in a press release. “Alberta’s government applauds an innovative collaboration among private sector advisers to support the housing authority in repurposing assets to meet a significant need within the community.”
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