PARC Retirement Living

JANUARY 2020 PARC Retirement Living is a growing company, with three future residences already in various stages of development. Victoria PARC is the first of the proposed residences in the works. It will be located at the in- tersection of Fort, Quadra, and Broughton streets in downtown Victoria. It is set to become a “vi- brant hub for people of all ages to live, work and connect.” Kelowna PARC will be up next, and will be located at KLO and Lakeshore Road in its beautiful namesake city. The company is currently in the application pro- cess with City of Kelowna. Coquitlam PARC, lastly, is sched- uled for a little bit further down the line, and is currently due to arrive in the year 2024. The company has already chosen the site, however – it will be lo- cated along Austin Avenue in one of the Lower Mainland’s largest and busiest suburbs. According to Patrick Schilling, who joined the company to aid in the development of those residences, all three will be lo- cated in urban centres, and will be well-integrated with their local community. Some on-site amenities will even be accessi- ble to non-residents. That inte- gration will allow residents to remain closely connected with the outside world, which is one of PARC’s key values. “We want to get rid of the stig- ma that retirement homes are What happens next “That’ll be about 10 years down the road, and we’ll have 12 or 13 residences. Then we’ll ask ourselves what happens next.”