Posted on Wed, Nov. 11, 2009

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Senior facility going up in Topeka

BY KAREN SHIDELER

The Wichita Eagle

Legend Senior Living has broken ground on a 66-unit assisted living facility in Topeka, the first component of what will be known as the Legend at Capital Ridge.

Legend Senior Living CEO Tim Buchanan said the facility will have 51 private assisted living apartments and 15 memory care units that will have their own common dining and living area. That part of the building will be called Reflections Memory Care.

The building is under construction on 12 acres near 21st Street and Wanamaker Road in Topeka.

He said the facility's design will duplicate two Legend Senior Living facilities in Oklahoma City.

The Law Co. is the general contractor; WDM Architects designed the building.

Buchanan said construction should be completed in 11 to 12 months.

Once the building is full, probably about a year after it opens, construction will start on an independent living retirement center on the same site.

"It'll be modeled after the Wichita Regent," a $17 million, three-story independent senior living building at 2050 N. Webb Road that recently had its grand opening, he said.

The final part of the project will be 15 independent living "cottages," in duplexes and patio homes.

Buchanan declined to put a price tag on the Topeka assisted living project.

Buchanan developed and later sold Sterling House. With Legend Senior Living, he has properties in Kansas, Florida and Oklahoma. Two buildings in Florida just opened; a third is to open just after the first of the year, and a fourth is scheduled to open in the spring.

He said he got to know the Topeka market during his Sterling House days.

"Topeka is a good marketplace for seniors," he said.

Reach Karen Shideler at 316-268-6674 or kshideler@wichitaeagle.com.

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