Park View Estates Assisted Living and Memory Care in Fountain Valley, Calif., offers affordable living options for the middle market in the greater Orange County area.

Operated by Sunshine Retirement Living (Bend, Ore.), the 105,505-square-foot community offers a continuum of care for residents to age in place, from assisted living to transitional assisted living to memory care.

Lantz-Boggio Architects & Interior Designers (Englewood, Colo.) provided architecture and interior design services for the 145-unit community, which blends classic Spanish Colonial Revival elements with California Mediterranean style to create a warm and inviting character that complements the distinct look of architecture common to Southern California. The community was designed specifically to provide its middle-market residents with a variety of floorplans, amenities, and services traditionally found in communities for higher-income seniors, but at an affordable cost.

Every detail of the $40+ million community has been designed to support residents’ physical, social, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual needs in a comfortable, safe, and encouraging environment. Elements that accomplish this include:


  • Pictures of local landmarks and landscapes that add touches of familiarity
  • Interactive rooms with Scrabble wall boards, books, and seating spaces throughout the community
  • Nostalgic but modern twists such as old movie posters in frames in the movie theater, a retro popcorn machine, and modern tapestry curtains surrounding the screen
  • Units and common areas that are homey and open with large windows and high ceilings to let in ample natural light
  • A main dining room with multiple types of seating options, such as updated diner style booth-bench seating, four-person tables, six-person long tables, and intimate two-person seating, all with courtyard views, plus a private dining room for special meals.

In addition, all first-floor assisted living units wing that face the courtyard have courtyard entry points, giving the residents their own outdoor space without having to create their own landscaping and the memory care neighborhood has an automatic lighting system to promote circadian rhythm.

Amenities include 24/7 dining, wellness/fitness center, library, computer room, chapel, formal and casual dining rooms, arts studio, reserved parking, theater, and beauty salon/barber shops, and enclosed and lush courtyards with walking paths and gardens.

 

Project details:

Facility name: Park View Estates Assisted Living and Memory Care

Location: Fountain Valley, Calif.

Completion date: January 2021

Owner: Fountain Valley Senior Living LLC

Total building area: 105,505 sq. ft.

Total construction cost: $40+ million (including cost of land)

Cost/sq. ft.: $391/sq. ft.

Architecture firm: Lantz-Boggio Architects & Interior Designers

Interior design: Lantz-Boggio Architects & Interior Designers

General contractor: USS Cal Builders Inc.

Civil Engineering: C&V Consulting Inc.

Builder: USS Cal Builder Inc.