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The lot that will contain the senior housing complex and retail stores is outlined in yellow. The property faces Route 38. The road to the left is Ark Road.Â
Developer's application to the Mount Laurel Planning Board
The lot that will contain the senior housing complex and retail stores is outlined in yellow. The property faces Route 38. The road to the left is Ark Road.Â
Developer's application to the Mount Laurel Planning Board
A 175-unit facility for congregate care and assisted living and two retail buildings will be built on former agricultural cropland on Route 38 in Mount Laurel next to the Haddon Point apartment and townhouse complex.
The Township Planning Board in December adopted a revised resolution granting preliminary and final site plan approval and preliminary and final major subdivision approval as well as variances to developer Delco Development LLC. Delco, which is doing business as HP Commercial Mount Laurel LLC, also is building the apartment complex.
Plans for the site, which is next to the McDonald's restaurant and adjacent to the plaza containing ShopRite, originally were approved at the board's September meeting.
Board members agreed to waive a restriction under Township law that requires a developer to protect 20% of a forested area from disturbance.Â
"The board finds that the applicant is proposing a robust landscaping plan with evergreen trees," according to the resolution.
A four-story Brightview Senior Living facility will be built on a 6.66-acre lot at the site, according to the plans. The project will offer studio and one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. About half of the complex will be devoted to assisted living, including residents with dementia.
Brightview testified to the board that its senior residents typically are between 80 and 90 years old.
Baltimore-based Brightview, which has operated a senior living facility in Mount Laurel off Union Mill Road for about 12 years, has a total of nine senior operations in New Jersey and more than 50 from Washington, D.C. to Boston, according to testimony.Â
Delco Development LLC plans a 175-unit Brightview senior living facility (left) and retail stores (right).
Developer's application to the Mount Laurel Planning Board
The two retail buildings — one 16,440 square feet and one 3,366 square feet — will be constructed on 3.98 acres of land and will be built after the senior project.
Access to the retail shops and Brightview includes a right-in and right-out entrance and exit on Route 38, according to the plans. One of the retail buildings will house a Tim Hortons restaurant and drive-through lane.
Plans call for 110 parking spaces on the retail part of the property and 143 spaces at the senior housing complex.
A rendering of the retail part of the development.
Developer's application to the Mount Laurel Planning Board
