Community
BY JACOB VAUGHN
Senior Living Guide
2024
Readers, welcome to your annual Community Impact Senior Living Guide! This guide features the latest updates and resources on di erent senior living options, from independent living to memory care, in Argyle, Flower Mound, Highland Village and Northlake. All of the stories were written by our team of local journalists, and all of the advertisements are from nearby businesses who support our mission. In this year’s senior living guide, we dig into the latest with Watermere, an independent living facility looking to expand in Flower Mound. We take a look at the North Central Texas Area Agency on Aging, which was founded in 1973 and provides assistance to quali ed adults in Denton County and large portions of North Texas. We also dive in on the increasing senior population within Argyle, Denton County, Flower Mound and Highland Village. From your local Community Impact team, we thank you for supporting us as we continue to provide the latest news and information surrounding our seniors.
What's inside
Check out amenities, cost for 11 senior living communities in the market (Pages 18 19)
Cathy Williams General Manager cwilliams@ communityimpact.com
Read about the North Central Texas Area Agency on Aging’s services (Page 21)
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Flower Mound sees continued demand for senior living spaces
Flower Mound’s senior overlay district from 2017 may no longer exist, but the projects it yielded are still around with one poised to grow. Through creation of the district, city o cials attracted two senior living projects: Watermere at Flower Mound, which opened in 2022, and the RiverWalk Flats, which opened in 2021. Town Council approved a 24-villa expansion to Watermere at Flower Mound in November. There’s still a demand for senior housing in Flower Mound, developer Andrew Chapin said during a recent planning and zoning commission meeting. The details The overlay district allowed developers to set up without needing a master plan amendment. Before the overlay district was created, the town had two single-family senior living neigh- borhoods, Orchard Flower and The Legends. In 2016, seniors in the community expressed interest in more housing options, assistant town manager FLOWER MOUND HIGHLAND VILLAGE ARGYLE EDITION
Tommy Dalton said. This was important to seniors wanting to stay in Flower Mound, said Lexin Murphy, the town’s director of development services. “People love Flower Mound, and they want to have the ability to continue to stay in Flower Mound when they enter di erent aspects of their life where they might have a di erent focus,” Murphy said. The senior overlay district was ended in 2019 by the town council. Then-council member Jim Pierson said at the time that the overlay district needed to end because it didn’t ful ll its purpose of providing a ordable housing for seniors. However, Dalton said a ordability is relative and the town is still doing more to address the need for senior housing. “What’s a ordable in Flower Mound is going to be completely di erent than what’s a ordable in other communities,” he said.
JUSTIN RD.
The Legends
DIXON LN.
35E
Watermere at Flower Mound
RiverWalk Flats
W. MAIN ST.
Flower Mound
Orchard Flower
F L O W E R
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