MorseLife set to start building rentals for seniors

Rendering of the 317-unit Tower at MorseLife.
Rendering of the 317-unit Tower at MorseLife.

MorseLife Health System will break ground Thursday for a 317-unit apartment building at its 37-acre campus in West Palm Beach.

MorseLife, a not-for-profit provider of health care programs for senior citizens, will build the 10-story Tower at MorseLife with one- and two-bedroom apartments ranging in size from 780 square feet to 1,500 square feet.

The $77.6 million apartment building, expected to open in the summer of 2017, is designed for active seniors who want easy access to food service, cleaning service and medical care.

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The architect for the building is Perkins Eastman andf the construction contractor is Whiting-Turner.

The building site is adjacent to a senior residence called Tradition of the Palm Beaches, which MorseLife opened in 2004.

At its West Palm Beach campus, MorseLife also has built the Sondra & David S. Mack Pavilion for Short-Term Rehabilitation, which opened in January 2014, and a facility called Memory Care Assisted Living, which opened in June of this year.