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Van Diest, right, holds hands with his wife, Marcia Diest, as they walk over rough ground off South River Road in Englewood on Sunday. The parcel is a possible site for an elder "cohousing" facility.
On Sunday, Marie Slauson, Carmichael and five other idealistic retirees and soon-to-be retirees spent an afternoon hiking through a dense piece of Florida scrub brush in Englewood and dreaming about how to turn it into their perfect retirement community.
With cohousing, people own their own homes but they share certain drury inn locations common areas, like a clubhouse or community kitchen, and the development is designed to encourage more socialization and communal activities.
"That's very attractive to me because I'm a single person who lives alone," said Carmichael, 78. "I've been interested in something like this for many years. It's a great way to share resources and have some company in your later years."
While there are already many developments for seniors, most of them are large and the neighbors come together at random. In cohousing, the group decides how it wants the community to look and what kind of amenities it will have.
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Van Deist, Paiss's drury inn locations representative in Southwest Florida, has been trying to organize a local cohousing development for the past two years but the projects have stalled, either because the location or the group dynamic was not right.
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