Senior Living in Dallas-Fort Worth — market context
The U.S. needs 595,000 additional senior living units by 2030. The investment gap runs $275 billion. Texas is one of the fastest-growing markets for them, and the Dallas-Fort Worth metro carries demographic pressure that’s structural, not cyclical. The construction problem isn’t demand — it’s finding a contractor who has actually built one before, navigated HHSC licensing alongside city inspections, and worked around residents who cannot relocate while construction runs.
ANDRES has delivered four CCRCs across Texas — The Stayton in Fort Worth (800K SF, three 11-story towers, 20-month schedule), Edgemere in Preston Hollow (multi-phase expansion, $29.1M, 167,572 SF, occupied), Touchmark at Emerald Lake in McKinney (265 units on 80 acres, $98M), and now Vivante Turtle Creek (20-story tower, 164 assisted living units plus 29 memory care, $150M, delivering 2027). David O’Quinn is the senior PM on Vivante; Hill Jordan runs day-to-day. The Edgemere relationship spans original build, expansion, and modification — three separate engagements with the same operator, the same campus, and residents in place every time.
CCRC construction is three buildings in one — residential, healthcare, and hospitality — each with separate code paths. Vivante adds a wrinkle: every unit is assisted living. No independent living component. The amenity programming on levels 1-5 (bowling alley, golf simulator, music rooms, commercial kitchens, common dining) has to be designed for assisted living accessibility from the outset, not retrofitted to ADA. Memory care floor requires delayed-egress door hardware, RFID wander management embedded in walls, key-card elevator access, alarmed stairwell logging. HHSC inspects separately from the city — life safety, medication storage, memory care containment, kitchen and dining for institutional food service. David brought in John Richter, a third-party HHSC and fire safety consultant, to review every sheet pre-construction. That’s the level of front-end work this category demands.
