Work started today on the $41-million redevelopment of Anglican Care’s CA Brown residential aged care facility, in Booragul.
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The redevelopment is expected to be completed by April 2020.
It’s an especially exciting development for Anglican Care because the Booragul site is the organisation’s spiritual home and the place where, 60 years ago, CA Brown Village became the first facility in Anglican Care’s portfolio.
“The redevelopment will include 126 single en-suite rooms (18 of those being dementia specific), a purpose-built day therapy centre, café and a number of multi-purpose spaces including a chapel,” Anglican Care CEO Colin Osborne said.
“The facility has been re-designed to provide a new entry to the residential village and newly landscaped surroundings, which separates service vehicles from resident-related traffic movements.”
Despite being on the Anglican Care board for 13 years, this development is Malcolm McDonald’s first since becoming chair of the group.
“It is projects like this that allow us to build on our wonderful history of care and concern as well as our commitment to provide contemporary high-quality services underpinned by Christian philosophies,” Mr McDonald said.
“It is a period of growth for the organisation and it is exciting to expand our footprint within the diocese and to be able to provide services to a growing number of older people, both those moving to one of our homes and those we provide services to in the community.”
In 2005, CA Brown Village underwent a staged development with new duplex-style units, a new community room, and a new administration home, but this will be the largest development on the site to date.
The project managers for the redevelopment are APP, and local construction organisation Core Property Group is doing the work.