New senior living projects OK’d in York County. See where hundreds of units are planned
Rock Hill planners on Tuesday approved a new assisted living facility in a growing commercial area, as senior options continue to pop up in Fort Mill.
The city planning commission in Rock Hill gave site plan approval to a more than 12-acre project at 193 Old Rawlinson Road. It’s at a corner of Rawlinson Road and Heckle Boulevard, just south along Heckle of its Old York Road intersection and the Walmart shopping center with its host of restaurants and other businesses in Newport.
Joslin Partners in Rock Hill owns the property. A Charlotte architectural firm applied for the site plan approval. The undeveloped, wooded property has a four-story building proposed with a total of 200,000 square feet of space.
The Joslin Partners application asked for 100 assisted living beds and 100 independent living units for seniors. A submitted site plan shows access off both Old Rawlinson and Heckle. The city is working with the senior site developer and adjacent property owner, Comporium, to connect Old Rawlinson and Bates Street, which they say should improve traffic in the area.
Another development in Fort Mill
Across the Catawba River in Fort Mill, a new sign just went up along Fort Mill Parkway for a Town Square facility. Town Square is a senior day care concept that provides activities and services for seniors with or without dementia. Town Square at Fort Mill will, according to its website, utilize a “reminiscence-based” approach where activities and “storefront” areas recreate a mid-20th century American town.
The new site is just beside the large Elizabeth residential project under construction, along with The Vault self-storage facility and 33,000 additional square feet of restaurant, retail or commercial space as part of South Mill at Elizabeth.
Senior options have been a focus for several years now in Fort Mill — both in serving an aging population and in the benefits area planners see on traffic because retirees can easier avoid rush hour. Planners say they also see benefits with school crowding because seniors typically don’t add students to enrollment numbers.
Other recent senior living projects range from the Millbank age-restricted community on former school property and Carolina Orchards to the 176-unit Home Living at Fort Mill assisted living and memory care, the Crossroads proposal along Williams Road with hundreds of senior care facilities and the Dan Ryan Builders plan for about 500 new age-restricted or age-targeted homes near Avery Plaza and the Anne Springs Close Greenway.
