St. Mark's Lutheran Home Holds Groundbreaking for Major Expansion
St. Mark’s Lutheran Home, area business leaders, and families and friends of the senior living community marked the beginning of a year-long redevelopment and expansion with a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, January 27.
The redevelopment will include:
- relocating 25 assisted living apartments to newly constructed space
- renovating 20 apartments for new memory care assisted living
- renovating 16 long term care rooms for short-term rehabilitation services
- remodeling the remaining 45 long term care rooms
- creating a new occupational and physical therapy area, a multi-purpose gathering room, chapel and living area, all near the new front entrance to the campus on 4th Street
- relocating and enhancing the beauty shop and café area
Construction began in late January and will take approximately 13 months, with completion in the spring of 2013. Ecumen, which manages St. Mark’s Lutheran Home, will lead the development of the project.
St. Mark’s, an independent, nonprofit senior living community, has served Austin-area seniors and their families for half a century. It is governed by a board of directors elected by the Austin congregations of St. Olaf Lutheran Church, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Grace Lutheran Church, Red Oak Grove Lutheran Church; and Six Mile Grove Lutheran Church and Our Savior’s Lutheran Church of Lyle. St. Mark’s is managed by Ecumen, based in Shoreview, Minn. Ecumen is the most innovative leader of senior housing and services, empowering individuals to live richer and fuller lives, it has been named seven straight years by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal as one of Minnesota’s “Best Places to Work” and one of Minnesota’s Top Workplaces by the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Minnesota Monthly Magazine.
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