Over the next 12 months, as the economy continues to stabilize, experts say the senior housing sector will make a fast recovery given favorable demographics and pent-up demand. In fact, many argue that senior housing is and will be for the foreseeable future the fastest growing commercial real estate sector, as the population ages and demand continues to rise exponentially. On April 28, find out more as the Bisnow panel of experts takes an in-depth look at the sector. With development costs low, is now the time to build? How can owners/buyers secure new financing in the credit-constrained marketplace? How will the new health insurance mandates impact property values and seniors housing investments?

Summer 2007
Just because they are looking for a place to settle into retirement, marketers should not assume that 60+ buyers are ready to give up on popular design styles and the finer things that have enriched their lives thus far. If their 40-something children and 20-something grandchildren are looking at wide-planked hardwood floors, for example, more mature buyers are likely to find them desirable to.

ATLANTA - The Peachtree Hills Place clubhouse received Gold recognition at NAHB's Best of 50+ Housing Awards. Winners were announced Tuesday, May, 20 at NAHB's Boomers and Beyond Conference. Peachtree Hills Place won Gold in the 'Active Adult Housing: Clubhouse Interior Design "On the Boards" Large' category. Isakson Barnhart Co., developers of Peachtree Hills Place, partnered with Foley Design Associates to design the interior and exterior of the luxurious clubhouse.

ATLANTA - E. Andrew (Andy) Isakson, founder of Isakson-Barnhart Properties, Inc., and Managing Partner of Isakson-Barnhart Co., LLC, developer of Peachtree Hills Place, was named one of the 2008 recipients of the Joseph D. Greene Community Service Award by the Healthcare Georgia Foundation for his long-standing work with HealthMPowers, an Atlanta-based non-profit organization that provides comprehensive health programming to schools throughout Georgia.

ATLANTA - Peachtree Hills Place is excited to welcome Dr. Roger Landry, a doctor of preventive medicine specializing in healthy aging, to discuss the impact of how and where one lives on aging. His talk, "Does Where You Live Affect How You Age?" is hosted by Isakson Barnhart, the award-winning developer of residential communities for seniors offering a continuum of care, including Park Springs in Stone Mountain and Peachtree Hills Place in Buckhead. The program will be held from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on February 12, 2008, at the Capital City Club Brookhaven ballroom, 53 W. Brookhaven Drive NE, and is free and open to the public. Free, valet parking is provided.

ATLANTA - The buildings are coming down on the new site of Peachtree Hills Place, but the trees are still standing due to an initiative that aims to protect more than half of the site's existing trees.

ATLANTA- Peachtree Hills Place, a residential community offering a continuum of care for members ages 55 and older, is bringing a message of wellness and health awareness to the children of Morris Brandon Elementary School in Buckhead. Representatives of the community announced the kick off of HealthMPowers with the school's PTA in October.

Isakson Barnhart, Atlanta's developer of luxury communities offering a continuum of care for those ages 62 and older, is setting a new standard in responsible development in Atlanta. The organization's aggressive tree save initiative at its Peachtree Hills Place location will not only preserve 50 percent of the trees on-site, but it will serve as the pilot program for a tree protection certification program for construction workers.

The caregivers at Cobblestone, the skilled nursing and assisted living component of Isakson Barnhart's award-winning Park Springs continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Stone Mountain, have recently begun presenting Montessori-based activities to members in the memory care unit.
