Prospect Park Development to Offer Senior-Living, Childcare

The University of Minnesota seeks to mitigate childcare shortages while employing students at the Pillars of Prospect Park senior living complex, reports the Minnesota Daily . Planned senior living options at the complex include independent living, assisted living, and memory care, while an on-site daycare center will accommodate intergenerational programs geared toward interaction between children and senior residents. The second service from Oppidan Investment will be enabled via Ebenezer, a senior living provider with two other communities in the metro area that use the program. "On our campus we do a ton of different activities, and it helps the seniors feel a sense of purpose," says Ebenezer's Jody Schumann. Oppidan's Shannon Rusk says developers are working closely to involve university students in the project through employment and childcare. She notes the project could address the possible closure of the university's Child Development Center. The Oppidan team has reached out to the university's Alumni Association and Retirees Association to offer research opportunities in its memory care branch, and the center also could offer internships to nursing students.