WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. — Watermark Retirement Communities has started construction of The Watermark at Vistawilla, an 89-unit memory care community in the Orlando suburb of Winter Springs.
Watermark, The Freshwater Group and development partners Rookis Investment Partners and Gulf Coastal Development Inc. broke ground on the community earlier in December. The project is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Tampa-based Chancey Design Partnership designed the project. Watermark will both own and operate the community.
Watermark Retirement Communities, based in Tucson, Ariz., is the 13th largest operator of seniors housing communities in the United States, managing 6,713 units across 36 communities, according to the American Seniors Housing Association’s 2016 calculations.