“The Home” was often used as a euphemism for punishment on the old television show “The Golden Girls,” but that isn’t the way Trinity Lifestyles Management officials describe their new 99-unit community in Grayson.
The luxury housing-style community, which will be located across from Starling Elementary School on Lawrenceville Highway, will be Trinity’s eighth such development in Georgia and its ninth overall. The $26 million will feature balconies, courtyards and restaurant-style dining areas with waiters and menus.
It will even have an HVAC system with UV lighting that can kill viruses and negative ions that can kill bacteria and boost a person’s mood.
“It’s going to be the big mansion,” said Trinity CEO Al Holbrook, whose wife, Laurie, oversees the design of the company’s communities.
Dogwood Forest is the first of two assisted living communities that Trinity plans to build in Gwinnett County over the next few years. Chief Operating Officer Vickie Curl said the company will break ground on a similar community in Sugar Hill near the end of the year.
The Grayson community is expected to open around the middle of 2017.
The company’s other locations are in Gainesville, Cumming, Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Acworth, Fayetteville and Stockbridge. Officials are expecting big things from their Grayson location, though.
Gwinnett Chamber Senior Vice President of Membership Vince DeSilva said Trinity’s decision to build communities in Gwinnett County is a natural fit because the county’s growing senior population.
“This has been happening for quite some time and you’re starting to see now a response to the aging population, but we’re still a long way away form where we need to be to support Gwinnett’s community,” DeSilva said.
