Steve Gooley, Bachrach Naumburger Group General Manager, said its first aged-friendly facility The Shoreline at Coffs Harbour on the NSW North Coast, is the result of the best of other operators’ work.
“We sat through many, many meetings creating the design and we visited about 50 places around the country over a six year period,” Steve told News of the Area.
“We picked some of the best features from each of them and also used our own ideas from holiday resorts.
“We’re not geniuses, we didn’t come up with everything ourselves, we leveraged from the best designs out there to create something unique for Coffs Harbour.”
About 50 residents have moved into the independent living units and 50 in the co-located aged care facility at The Shoreline.
“It’s definitely come up a treat, after eight to ten years of planning we’re enormously proud of it and we’re still not finished,” Steve said.
“We’ve still got nearly three years to go.
“We will have close to 500 people living here across our 180 independent residences and our 120-bed aged care facility.”
Bachrach Naumburger Group is a privately owned property group that owns and manages regional shopping centres and a number of commercial properties.
