NEW YORK: The five hundred and fifty-seventh entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.
One 1950s-themed town will have a city hall, a movie theater, and a park to help bring back memories for dementia patients.
There’s going to be a new town square in Chula Vista, a suburb near San Diego County, California. But while most cities try to update their town squares to be trendy and modern, this one takes inspiration from the 1950s.
On Wednesday night at University of California, San Diego, the centrepiece of the town was unveiled: A one-story, scaled-down replica of what used to be San Diego’s city hall. (The full-size, working building is currently used as the county administration center). Like the real thing, you can walk inside through a set of doors under an intricate blue-and-white tile mural, along with two plaques bearing the city’s logo. Above those is a large sign that reads “City Hall” in elegant, printed letters.
Come 2018, when Glenner Town Square is schedule to open, that city hall will be surrounded by a park, a movie theater, a hospital, a diner, and more than a dozen other functioning buildings typically found in any city. Like the city hall, these will also be scaled-down versions—so that they all fit inside a roughly 15,000-square-foot industrial building with a 24-foot-high ceiling.
