LOS ANGELES: Retirement communities biggest failing is their inability to create community spaces that embrace a joie de vivre. It remains a major obstacle to sales and as competitors start to nail them on this weakness, it will spell the end of the mausoleum epoch.
Any community space creator should journey to Melbourne to see how a web of lanes in the city has been transformed to embrace street life and a multigenerational population of 30,000 in less than a decade…