Avalon Park to start development of senior living facility to focus on Alzheimer’s care, therapy

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Avalon Park in East Orlando reported it will start development of an 80,000 square foot senior living facility with 90 senior living apartments and 128 licensed beds. Stephanie Hodson, vice president of marketing at Avalon Park Group, which is developing Avalon Park, said MJM Associates will manage the senior living facility in partnership with the Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, part of Cornell University in New York. “When the new facility opens later this year staff and specialists under the auspices of Weill Cornell Medical College will provide non-medicinal therapeutic treatments to help slow the progress of Alzheimer’s,” Hodson said. Hodson added that the general contractor bid was recently awarded to Lamm & Co. and construction of the senior living facility is expected to start within 90 days.