GA_MemoMay 8, 2017
Otsego City Council Work Session
Prairie Center, Otsego MN
RE: Guardian Angels Riverview Landing Otsego
Guardian Angels Riverview Landing Otsego is proposed to be a 14+/- acre total Senior Services and
Life Quality Living Community Campus to be developed in phases to coincide with the needs of the
Otsego area Senior populations housing and personal service's needs. Proposed for 2017/18, is the
initial 5.7 acre parcel, (of the total 14+/- acres), to include a 165,589 square foot building containing
143 individual home units. The homes will include independent living, assisted living and memory
care living along with common gathering and congregate areas, elements dedicated solely to resident
use and enjoyment and both community as well as public amenities; including a separate dedicated
community activity and gathering building. Riverview Landing will provide old world charm in a warm
and inviting setting right on the banks of the Mississippi River at the very gateway into the Otsego
community at the intersection of highway 101 and the Mississippi river!
Riverview Landing brings the Guardian Angels ARISE Advantage to the residents of Otsego with its
core values of:
Advocate: Promoting and supporting programs and policies that improve the quality of life
for the people we serve, our employees and our communities.
Respect: Welcoming, service-oriented and diverse community that builds respect and trust.
Innovate: Fostering a rewarding and caring environment that empowers individuals to be
creative. An environment that provides learning experiences and promotes personal growth
and higher education.
Spirituality: Developing and fostering programs and services that demonstrate Christ's love
while embracing the spirit, mind and body.
Excel: The pursuit of high quality care standards that exceed the expectations of those we
serve while demonstrating stewardship and ethical business practices that protect the
management of our physical, financial, and employee resources.
Thank you for encouraging, supporting and ensuring healthy aging life opportunities inclusive of the
future Riverview Landing residents AND the current and coming senior residents throughout the
entire Otsego community!
Tangible and intangible community benefits discussion.
Demonstrated financial community benefit! The Otsego financial engine will directly benefit from
the Riverview Landing, (as currently forecasted), annual operating budget of $6.3 million (third year
of stabilization). This budget carries payroll and benefits provisions of $2.6 million, which directly
profits the local community economy. Riverview Landing would be staffed around the clock with
professionals and dedicated service workers totaling approximately 100 employees new to the
Otsego Community.
Demonstrated community need! Currently Guardian Angels Riverview Landing has 111 persons on
the "I want in" or early indication of interest list. Clearly there is a demonstrated need for senior
residential housing and services specifically serving the Otsego Community. Every year 65,000 older
adults are added to the ranks of the senior population in the state of Minnesota alone! In regards to
the senior population of the Otsego area, a Guardian Angels commissioned market and needs
assessment identified that the Otsego senior population will number 1700 by the year 2030, and
therefore will need 1700 opportunities for housing dedicated to their needs by the year 2030.
Carrick Waterfront East Park. Proposed enhancements to include a park central plaza, additional
walking paths, walking bridge and Mississippi River overlook: all for the benefit of every resident of
the City of Otsego!
Community Outreach Center. Riverview Landing includes a planned separate building that could
include or provide for meeting space(s), a pickle ball court (or other physical or wellness opportunity
surface), community and social gathering opportunities and other community outreach activities yet
to be determined based on Otsego Community members input and demonstrated needs or desires.
Riverview Landing would be able to facilitate general Otsego senior programing on a community wide
basis in partnership and cooperation with the City. Additional partnerships could be developed with
Otsego Park and Recreation that might include both use of the public amenities such as Carrick WFE
Park and the Community amenities such as the Riverview landing community activity and gathering
building.
Age friendly, senior centric opportunities. Riverview Landing will provide a foundation and anchor
for Guardian Angels Senior Services to be able to provide expanded opportunities, yet to be
determined, identified or brought forward, as may be desired or beneficial to the senior population
and in many cases the general population of the city of Otsego. These could include but would not be
limited to the following:
• Age friendly health and wellness opportunities that could include a therapeutic pool,
classes, weights, cardio equipment, blood pressure screenings, glucose testing, mobile
mammogram screenings and healthier living education.
• Life Quality Community Opportunities Otsego residents, through outreach only made
possible/created by the physical construction of the Riverview Landing Community Campus,
will be able take advantage of a host of potential quality of life opportunities such as
nutritional programs, dine -in meal programs (for Otsego residents), meals on wheels
programs (generally in cooperation and partnership with other social service organizations),
and many other TBD or developed programs all for the benefit of the greater Otsego senior
community and their specific needs.
• Adult day services Adult day away programming/opportunities and psychosocial
activity programming allows Otsego area seniors desiring to age in place the opportunity to
continue to live in their current family home, yet have access to senior specific services when
needed. Adult day services provide caretaking family members a critically needed opportunity
to complete shopping, chores, out of area responsibilities and or respite while ensuring their
loved one is in a protected and nurturing environment while they are away from their home.
• Outdoor Day Activities such as fishing in the Mississippi, shopping at area retail stores,
dining out experiences, cookouts, bonfires, birding, nature walks along the river and any other
experience, opportunity, or life enhancing activity that Otsego residents along with Guardian
Angels staff and volunteers determine is desired or needed by the community.