Senior-living campus planned near Dalhousie Golf Club

A new partnership between two longstanding Cape Girardeau businesses is expected to create a variety of new senior-housing options in the region.

Chateau Girardeau has announced an agreement with Dalhousie LLC on an option to acquire real estate and develop a new senior living campus. With the proposed name The Chateau Girardeau at Ramsay's Run, the multi-acre site will be on Bloomfield Road, just north of Dalhousie Golf Club.

The new development is in preliminary planning stages.

"We are currently in the process of a due diligence and feasibility period, with viability to be determined within 12 months," Keith Boeller, president and CEO of Chateau Girardeau, said in an email.

After that 12-month period, Boeller said, construction could begin immediately.

In the preliminary designs, there are 44 single-family lots, 36 multifamily units and two apartment structures. The development is estimated at 250,000 to 300,000 square feet as designed, Boeller said, on a 45- to 60-acre campus.

The development will be owned and operated by Chateau Girardeau, Boeller said, and will include a variety of products, services and amenities from Dalhousie LLC.

"We will be proud to explore ways to partner with The Chateau and opportunities to share amenities that will provide value to both Dalhousie Golf Club members along with The Chateau residents," Cord Dombrowski, managing member of Dalhousie Golf Club, said in a news release.

This new development is not Chateau Girardeau's only expansion underway. Several new homes are being constructed on the senior-living facility's main campus.

Before this, the last large-scale renovation for the Chateau Girardeau was a 16,000-square-foot addition to its health center in 2011.

"We are very excited to continue to expand on what is already the premier retirement community in Southeast Missouri," Boeller said in a news release.

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