Get On Waiting List For New Senior Housing In Dixon

From David Thompson:

The parking lot is complete, the utilities are in and the first floor is already built. Go and take a look at the progress of Heritage Commons 2 on Heritage Lane.

This is a reminder that the waiting list for both the 54 new apartments scheduled for spring of 2016 and the 60 existing apartments is now open. So be prepared by adding your name to the Heritage Commons waiting list. We anticipate that by move in date next year the people on the waiting list will immediately fill up all the available apartments.

With 114 affordable apartments, Heritage Commons will be Dixon’s largest affordable senior campus. Affordable rents are available to many very low income seniors in this amenity rich senior housing community. Seniors 55 and over are eligible to live at Heritage Commons.

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The amenities at the five-acre Heritage Commons campus are a large community building which has a community room with kitchen, fireplace room, community shop, computer kiosks, lending library, and a waiting area for Dixon Readi-Ride and other transportation. The management and social services offices are on-site. Residents conduct a number of activities in the Community Room such as film showings and food distribution.

The outdoor amenities include a solar heated therapy pool, a large outdoor patio with tables, chairs and umbrellas for picnics, gatherings etc, raised bed garden boxes, outdoor exercise paths and generous open space and vistas.

Heritage Commons has photovoltaic solar panels on several of the building roofs. The electricity created from this system powers most of the electrical usage for the community building and all of the lighting for the parking lots and the outdoors.

All the apartments are built to be energy efficient through the use of north-south orientation, through ventilation for all units, and high value insulation and energy saving construction methods. One Heritage Commons’ resident told me last week that her utility bill for June was $23.

Every Heritage Commons apartment is both visitable and accessible. Aging in place in your own apartment over the years is our goal. The entire campus is accessible and there will be four different elevators for everyone at Heritage Commons to go everywhere on the campus.

Consider giving up your car? Heritage Commons is well served by the Dixon Readi-Ride program with over 80 trips per week. Heritage Commons was designed so that the Dixon busses can come in and turn around in our circle and do pick up and drop off at the door of the community building.

Heritage Commons is a partnership of Davis Senior Housing Communities, Inc (DSHC), Neighborhood Partners, LLC and the John Stewart Company (JSCo).

DSHC began as an idea of a few Davis citizens to create affordable senior housing that had additional services. It worked. DSHC’s first community, Eleanor Roosevelt Circle in Davis, also has a waiting list open for seniors 62 and above. (http://npllc.org/projects/eleanor-roosevelt-circle)

To get on the waiting list for Heritage Commons 1&2, call Maria Claustro at (707) 676-5660. To get on the waiting list for Eleanor Roosevelt Circle, call Carissa Estrada at (530) 753-3400. Come live with us at DSHC.

For regular construction updates please visit www.npllc.org/blog and http://npllc.org/projects/heritage-commons