Erickson Retirement Community Cancels Development Plans

The Village of Glendale has received notice from Steve Montgomery, a representative of Erickson Retirement Communities, that Erickson will no longer pursue development of a retirement community on the property owned by Landmark Baptist Church. Approximately 68% of the project was to be built on the Glendale side of the Landmark property and the remaining portion was to be built on the Evendale side.

For over a year Erickson management has been interacting with the administrations and governments of both Glendale and Evendale. This project required both communities to agree to proceed. Glendale was prepared to receive the application and work with both Erickson and Evendale to design a retirement community with approximately 1,200 dwelling units, two restaurants, a pub, recreation and cultural activities. “The Erickson concept was attractive to us”, said Glendale Administrator Walter Cordes, “it was to be a full service retirement community of which the majority would be located in Glendale and it would have provided unique lifestyle living for those 62 and up. We heard from enough residents to realize that this concept may have provided a valuable service and living opportunity for our residents and those of our neighbors. It’s unfortunate that we will not get the opportunity to review the application and explore what could have been.”

According to Mr. Cordes, Erickson informed him that they were being approached by two other communities in the area and could wait no longer for mutual agreement to proceed.