Higley served as Construction Manager at Risk for this $117 Million luxury retirement community, which began field construction in April 2007 and completed on time September 2009. The scope includes construction of seven three-story wood frame apartment buildings (134 units), 56 townhouse/garden/cottage homes of wood frame construction, a 40-unit structural masonry and precast concrete assisted living building, and an 80,793 SF steel framed Community Center (including nine residential suites). All of the independent living buildings include basement parking, which is accessible via ramps or underground tunnels. The 203 (total) parking spaces occupy approximately 89,000 SF. The total square footage amounts to nearly 680,000 SF on 82 acres.

The Community Center is a three-story 81,000 SF structure that includes a 75-foot warm water pool, eight-person Jacuzzi, aquatic exercise well, men’s and women’s locker rooms and saunas, family locker room, treadmills, elliptical machines, weight machines, Nustep® machines, recumbent cycles, upright cycles, free weights, a dance studio, and a movement based fitness studio. This building also houses food services, and the Radius Restaurant for fine dining.

The 82 acre sitework included utlities, parking areas, walking trails, ponds, seating areas, and relocation of metroark path.