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Grove Construction Update: Model Apartment Now Open
Posted on 4/15/2019
While much of the Grove, BRC’s new Independent Living apartment building, is still very much a hardhat zone, one corner of the first floor gives an impressive glimpse of what it will be like when finished. The model apartment—a corner unit with 1,510 square feet and the Rome floor plan—has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, two […]You did it! The Building Connections Campaign Surpassed Its Goal
Posted on 1/4/2019
Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation is excited to announce that the Building Connections Campaign surpassed its goal of $3.2 million. By the end of 2018, $3.5 million was raised to support the expansion and renovation of Assisted Living, the addition of a new Memory Support House and the Resident Care Endowment Fund. Gifts from donors, residents, team […]Construction Update – December 2018
Posted on 12/13/2018
If the Grove looks like a big plastic bubble right now there is a reason for that. Nielsen, the construction company for this project, is keeping the temperature at 40 degrees for bricking and putting EIFS (a stucco-like, multi-layered exterior finish) on the outside of the building. The plastic and butane heaters also lower moisture […]Construction Update – August 2018
Posted on 8/24/2018
Rain, rain go away!! This spring we gave a sigh of relief and celebrated that our construction weather delays were behind us. Unfortunately, it has been a very wet spring and summer. Assisted Living: Assisted Living has transformed in the last month. Our new addition has a second floor and the second-floor renovations to […]Construction Update – July 2018
Posted on 7/16/2018
This has been a very busy summer so far at our two constructions sites. We have many questions each week about where we are with our projects so we plan to bring you a construction update each month. The Grove The goal is to get the building under a roof as soon as possible. The […]We Have Met Our Challenge!
Posted on 7/13/2018
We are so excited to share with you that we have reached our challenge goal of $125,000! Thank you to Rodney and Jen Alderfer, BB & T, Dan and Nancy Brubaker, Houff Corporation, John and Linda Neff, Partners Excavating and Edgar and Catherine Simmons who donated the funds and issued this challenge. We have raised […]Construction Update – June 2018
Posted on 6/12/2018
The rain this past 2 weeks has been challenging at times. It’s nice to have a sunny day to enable the construction crew to make some progress. No complaints though from Nielsen Construction Corp or their subs. We have a meeting next week with architect, engineering team and contractors to go over the schedule and upcoming […]The Building Connections Campaign Reaches 86% of Goal
Posted on 6/1/2018
The new Assisted Living building is growing and so is our total for the Building Connections Campaign. As you can see from these pictures we are finally finished with the underground and foundation work. We are now moving in a vertical direction and the changes should start to come more quickly. We are excited that […]BRC’s Evening of Gratitude Photos
Posted on 5/8/2018
Supportive friends and Bridgewater Retirement Community family, delicious food and drinks, jazzy music, and a magnificent sunset outside the windows of a beautiful ballroom sounds like a fairy tale evening. And it was, for those who gathered to enjoy our Evening of Gratitude event, sponsored by Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation. Members of the Campaign Cabinet for the Building […]Building Connections Challenge Gift
Posted on 5/3/2018
Have you visited Bridgewater Retirement Community recently? If you have, then you saw that some big changes are taking place. We are so excited to be four months into our Assisted Living construction project. When we finish in 2020, we will have expanded and renovated Assisted Living and added a new memory support house. The Building […]