A $38M Project Turns Dilapidated Woodlyn Property into Senior Housing

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The interior of a new apartment at Kinder Park IV providing affordable senior housing and health care sservices
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A interior look at the new senior apartments at Kinder Park IV

There is space for up 250 people at a new $38 million senior housing and services building that opened last week at Kinder Park IV in Woodlyn, writes John George for Philadelphia Business Journal.

The new building emerged out of the renovation of a run-down public housing site at MacDade Blvd and Bullens Lane. It is a project of Mercy LIFE, part of Trinity Health Mid Atlantic, and the Delaware County Housing Authority.

Philadelphia-based Penrose developed the site.

Kinder Park IV was created to offer affordable housing and medical and social services to seniors.

A Mercy LIFE (Living Independence for the Elderly) program helps seniors live independently as they age in place.

 “The concept of combining access to health care with affordable housing has been a dream of ours for years,” said Lawrence Hartley, executive director of Delaware County Housing Authority. “The opening of Kinder Park IV is the realization of that dream. It brings access to life care type amenities to residents of Delaware County with modest incomes.”

Mercy LIFE provides free medical care, medications, transportation, meals, rehabilitation therapy, social services and recreational activities for qualifying seniors.

Read more about this new senior housing in Woodlyn at Philadelphia Business Journal.

Steve Shields talks about rethinking senior living in this TED Talk.

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