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Woodside Heights— 71 Unit Elderly Housing Community

This seventy-one unit senior housing community is the first phase of a 58 acre campus for the aging in Middlebury, CT.  This independent living center also includes a central commons and support service.

The guiding principle of these seventy-one units is to encourage tenants to age gracefully-in-place.  The units, corridors, east and west lobbies and central commons were all designed with that premise.

This is the first residence in the town designed exclusively for aging.  A joint enterprise of the town, and New Samaritan, a non-profit housing corporation, purchased the land for the development.  The center will ultimately include a wide array of housing alternatives on the lovely hillside site.  This first phase, alongside Straw Pond, offers adaptable one bedroom units.

The pair of two story residences of 38 and 39 units frame a one story commons.  All common facilities (dining and meeting rooms) face Straw Pond and a patio on the south edge of the pond.