Senior Housing for Roseville Continues to Expand

With one nearby senior housing project under construction and heading for a fall opening, United Properties plans to enter the assisted living residential market in Roseville.

United Properties, a Minneapolis-based commercial real estate and development firm, has won preliminary and final plat approval from the for an 80-unit, three-story development on Cleveland Avenue known as Applewood Pointe of Langton Lake Second Addition.

Construction of the assisted living community is scheduled to begin mid-summer 2011 and be completed about a year later, according to United Properties spokeswoman Jessie Folkens. No cost estimate was given.

Given Roseville’s central location and aging population, the city is a prime candidate for more senior housing, contended Matt Mullins, vice president at  Minneapolis-based Maxfield Research, which did a multi-family housing study  for Roseville in 2009.

Mullins said his firm found that over the next  five years, Roseville would have a need for 400 to 450 units of senior housing.

United Properties plans to work with nonprofit service provider Ebenezer Management Services, a subsidiary of Fairview Health Services, to manage the assisted living facility, Folkens said.

The proposed assisted living project would be adjacent to United Properties’ 48-unit senior cooperative housing community currently under construction, Applewood Pointe of Roseville at Langton Lake, 3010 Cleveland Avenue North.

“We are not new to the senior housing market–we’ve been in this business for eight years, with six senior living projects to date,” Frank Dutke, president of United Properties, said in a statement. “With Applewood Pointe, we have become the leading producer of senior cooperatives in the area, and it’s our intent to become a major provider of assisted living facilities as well.”

Currently, United Properties’ Applewood Pointe metro locations are home for about 900 Twin Cities seniors, the company said. Applewood Pointe’s other locations are in Maple Grove, New Brighton, Woodbury, two in Bloomington and one in Roseville, that is near Snelling Avenue and County Road C-2.

At the Roseville City Council, council member Tammy McGehee dissented against the  United Properties’ preliminary and final plat, questioning whether there was a need for the project.

But fellow Council member Tammy Pust supported the plat, saying, “I would think the people building know what is need.”

Mullins said that demand for assisted living housing has been steady even during the real estate downturn of the past couple years.

Mullins noted that while Roseville’s overall population as a whole is projected to grow about 2 percent over the next five years, the senior population age 55 and older is expected to grow 8.5 percent over the same period. The age group ages 65 to 74 is expected to increase 16 percent, he said.