December 14, 2009 marks the groundbreaking ceremony for the Green House® Homes Project in West Orange, NJ. The project consists of six state-of-the-art skilled nursing homes based on the ‘Green House®’ model of care.  Designed by NK Architects, this is the first facility of its kind in New Jersey – a revolutionary, non-institutional lifestyle model reinventing long-term care for seniors.

The project is designed as a series of ten-bed ‘cottages’ with a total of 60 skilled nursing beds.  Each cottage will be self-contained with all private residence rooms, a family kitchen, family dining room and ‘hearth’ room.  The architecture will be residential in scale, and the project will be built as a neighborhood with a rain garden, walking paths, front porches and rear patios.