Project Description
The Long Home, an historic assisted living facility within the City of Lancaster, has found it increasingly difficult to meet the needs of its residents. Presbyterian Senior Living, the owner of The Long Home, consulted with ELA Group, Inc. to find a solution to their growing problem. It was determined that a new senior living community needed to be established to address the needs of the Long Home’s assisted living residents and the rising demand for independent senior living facilities in Lancaster County.

PSL acquired a 13 acre tract adjacent to the Highland Presbyterian Church to develop The Long Community at Highland. The site will consist of 3 principal apartment buildings, each with dedicated below-grade parking. In all, the community will provide 202 senior living units, 275 parking spaces, and a network of pedestrian trails which taps into an existing trail network. In addition to the design of these site amenities ELA provided infrastructure design including roadway widening, water and sewer, and stormwater management to accommodate future site improvements.

ELA aided Presbyterian Senior Living both in the acquisition of zoning variances and in the preparation of supporting documentation required to accompany applications for funding through the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).