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Despite a minor setback last month, Abundant Faith
Christian Center is moving forward with its affordable housing projects and
will host the grand opening of Timberlake Estates — its first
independent senior living facility — at noon Tuesday, Jan. 15.
Project manager Sheleda Doss says the ceremony will
feature keynote speaker Deshana Forney, director of the Illinois
Development Authority, and include other such possible guests as state Sen.
Larry Bomke, Illinois Department of Aging director Charles Johnson, and a
representative from U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s office. Timberlake Estates — a $10 million,
64,000-square-foot facility — was completed in December and already
houses several residents. In addition to contemporary one- and two-bedroom
apartments plans, the building offers a café, a beauty salon and
barber shop, a banquet hall, sunrooms, a fitness center, and a theater to
seniors ages 55 years and older. Doss says that applications are being reviewed and
that she expects the three-story building to be mostly full by the end of
January. Abundant Faith recently began construction on the
second phase of its senior housing development, the Timberlake Estates
Supportive Living Facility. The Rev. Jerry Doss says the property was
jeopardized when the City Council delayed action last month on approving
the final plat and site development of the project because of unresolved
concerns with the Nehemiah Expansion, another church-related development
led by the Rev. Silas Johnson of Calvary Baptist Church. The Rev. Doss says that as a result Abundant Faith
nearly missed its end-of-the-year deadline to close final documents with
the bank, but the issue was resolved. “We got it done; it just made things more
difficult than they had to be,” he says. The new three-story supportive-living facility will
include 60 units and is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
Contact Amanda Robert at arobert@illinoistimes.com.
This article appears in Jan 3-9, 2008.
