CHEER breaks ground for more senior apartments
Georgetown dignitaries and senior-living advocates gathered Oct. 28, to break ground on the first of four senior apartment buildings to be built alongside the CHEER Center on Sand Hill Road.
“CHEER is expanding its vision for what it means to age,” said Sen. Brian Pettyjohn, R-Georgetown, addressing a couple dozen people gathered for the event.
Gateway East Apartment 1 is the first of four buildings that officials said will add 300 senior-living units for low- to moderate-income residents.
“The best thing we can do is make sure the people that we have don’t fall into homelessness,” said Matt Heckles, director of the Delaware State Housing Authority.
In addition to the apartments, a new 8,000-square-foot administrative building will be built, which will allow more room in the current center for activities and programs.
Melissa Steele is a staff writer covering the state Legislature, government and police. Her newspaper career spans more than 30 years and includes working for the Delaware State News, Burlington County Times, The News Journal, Dover Post and Milford Beacon before coming to the Cape Gazette in 2012. Her work has received numerous awards, most notably a Pulitzer Prize-adjudicated investigative piece, and a runner-up for the MDDC James S. Keat Freedom of Information Award.
