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Chehalem Springs opens, adds to city's retirement community |
The facility on Hayes Street features 83 apartments
and 24 duplex cottages |
By David
Sale, Newberg
Graphic reporter
E-mail David at
dsale@eaglenewspapers.com
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The latest addition to Newberg’s retirement
community, Chehalem Springs, will hold an open house Aug. 12 for
visitors and prospective residents, featuring a barbecue and live
entertainment.
A member of the Salem-based SunWest group, Chehalem Springs offers
83 apartments and 24 duplex cottages on Hayes Street.
“The demographics showed Newberg needed another facility with the
way the city’s grown,” manager Terri Hacker said.
A Sherwood native, Hacker joined the Chehalem Springs staff in
February, and played a role in marketing the facility.
“I’d never been involved in new construction before,” she said.
“When I arrived, it was just a shell and a concrete floor — I worked
out of a trailer. It’s been a long wait, but worth it for a
beautiful building.”
Chehalem Springs
offers both independent and assisted living, with studio and
one-bedroom apartments ranging from 480 to 625 square feet. The
duplexes are 1,093 square feet per unit, with two bedrooms and two
bathrooms each.
Living quarters offer wheelchair-accessible bathrooms, call buttons for
nursing staff, and high ceilings. “Those really make all the
difference,” Hacker said.
With only 10 residents presently living in the newly-completed
facility, Hacker still hopes to add some amenities, including a gift
shop and exercise center.
“The library’s still fairly empty — if anyone has books they’d like
to donate, we’d be delighted,” Hacker added. “We have an on-site
beauty salon, but we’re still looking for a beautician to take up
the lease.”
However, Chehalem Springs also boasts a home theater room, communal
kitchen and “soda shop” lounge, complete with jukebox.
Nearby, the duplexes offer a view of Chehalem Glenn Golf Course and
will adjoin a facility that will be built by the Friendsview
Retirement Community.
With this future senior living facility going in, and the existing
Astor House nearby, “it’s like a little city,” Hacker said. |
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From
Aug. 8,
2007, Newberg Graphic
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