Mahonia Crossing is a 313-unit affordable housing community located in the South Gateway neighborhood of Salem, OR. It was designed as a Community For All Ages to foster intergenerational connection so people can live, work and play together.
Residential buildings will be connected by tree-lined paths and arranged around a series of shared outdoor spaces, including a garden, outdoor plaza with amphitheater seating, park, open field, and picnic and BBQ areas.
EngAGE Northwest will provide on-site programming. “The physical and intellectual amenities at Mahonia Crossing will be designed to maximize interaction across three and four generations of neighbors,” said Tim Carpenter, CEO of EngAGE Northwest. “We feel that Salem, and this area especially, is a perfect place for the Community For All Ages model, and the ingrained love that people here have for their community will allow us to establish strong partnerships to achieve our goals.”
Speakers at the groundbreaking event:
“As a CDP Community For All Ages, this will be a space where people in all stages of life are respected, cared for, and provided tools to grow, explore and create,” said Eric Paine, CEO of CDP. “There’s such incredible value in the wisdom that we gain through life experiences. Seniors who will live here will bring that with them. We want them to feel energized and valued based on the knowledge and life experience they can share with younger adults and children, who will be equally enriched by those relationships.”
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