Meadow Lake Village has more growth plans for Meridian

Touchmark at Meadow Lake Village retirement community in Meridian expects to add eight to 10 more cottage homes in later 2016 and 2017 and might add commercial space at Meadow Lake Village.

““It could be doctors’ offices or a little market,” said Matthew Hoskin, Meadow Lake Village’s executive director.

Meadow Lake Village just finished adding an $18 million, three-story, 57,500-square-foot Elkhorn Lodge, which includes the community’s first health and fitness center and 59 assisted living units that opened in early February.

Touchmark has been adding to Meadow Lake Village fairly consistently since the first dozen independent living cottages opened in 2003. Minus the recessionary stretch from 2008 to 2012 – “which had more to do with the bank not lending money” – Touchmark has been in expansion mode for its full history in Meridian to make Meadow Lake the Beaverton’s, Ore., company’s largest retirement community among its 11 homes in eight states.

Meadow Lake now has about 420 residents in 84 cottage homes, 128 independent living apartments, 121 assisted living apartments and 48 memory care apartment homes. Hoskin said 300 residents fall in the independent living category.

Touchmark for now will continue building within the 40 acres it has developed so far. The company has plans for the full 100-plus acres it owns between Interstate 84 and Franklin Road, east of St. Luke’s, but Hoskin declined to discuss them.

Meadow Lake started with cottages in 2003 and added the first condo-style apartments, the 60-unit, independent living Sun Valley Lodge in 2006. The Grand Lodge with the dining room, event center and offices followed in February 2007. It expanded into assisted living in summer 2007 with the 62-unit Meadows at Meadow Lake Village. The 48-unit memory care Owyhee Lodge and 68-unit independent living Targhee Lodge opened in 2013.

The Elkhorn Lodge was designed by LRS Architects. Joseph Billig, senior vice president of Touchmark Development & Construction, designed the Elkhorn. Andersen Construction in Boise was the general contractor.