Author: Cece

After several years of construction, Mather recently began opening its
huge luxury senior living high-rises in Tysons. I sat down with CEO Mary Leary to learn more about the project and what’s in store for the future — and was also given a tour.

Spoiler alert: Mather is teeing up another project in Northern Virginia. “We believe the market is very strong,” Leary said, adding that her Illinois-based organization is “actively reviewing sites right now,” though she wouldn’t say precisely where.

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The traditional image of a senior community includes “Acres” or “Glen” in the name and a huge, grassy campus with rolling hills. But that may be changing, if recent developments in the DC area are any indication.

The Grandview development in North Bethesda, Maryland, run by Erickson, and The Mather, a community “for those 62 and better” run by the company Mather, in Tysons are examples of high-rise retirement communities set in more urban areas.

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The Grandview from Erickson Senior Living is under construction, though it still requires approval of the Maryland Department of Aging.

When you think of the region’s largest senior living complexes, you probably picture sprawling gated communities like Greenspring in Springfield or Leisure World in Silver Spring. They are practically their own ZIP codes.

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The Mather is now as tall as it’s ever going to get.

The apartment high-rise buildings for adults 62 and older “topped off” earlier this month, less than a year after beginning vertical construction.

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One of the priciest high-rise projects in Tysons, Virginia, has “topped out,” with developers completing the final concrete pour of the roof.

The Mather, scheduled to open in 2024, will be a luxury senior-living condo community in two buildings. Phase one includes 179 condo units, and phase two will have 114 units. The $500 million project, at 7929 Westpark Drive, is being co-developed by nonprofit senior community developer Mather and Westminster Capital.

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When people move from a single-family home to a smaller space, like an apartment, downsizing is often an integral part of the process and can become a project in itself.

Gale Morgan, Senior Vice President of Sales at Mather, spoke about the reasons to downsize and why doing it right and early on makes the overall move a lot easier.

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