A groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of Christopher Heights of Marlborough, an 83 unit assisted living community, was held at 2PM on Friday May, 4^th 2007 at 84 Chestnut Street, Marlborough, MA 01752.  This Brownfields site is the former home of the Frye Boot tannery.  The assisted living project has been designed to create a coordinated housing facility as well as a care orientated setting in order to provide safe, affordable housing and a superior quality of life for frail elderly.  Overall, the project will consist of approximately fifty four thousand six hundred square feet (54,600) of mixed use space with almost half of that space dedicated to common areas, including country kitchens, fireplaced living room, pub area, beauty parlor, etc.  All of the residential units, seventy one (71) studio and twelve (12) one bedroom units are designed for assisted living for the elderly and handicapped residents.  The community is expected to consist of at least sixty percent (60) of its residents having incomes below sixty percent (60) of the area median income.  The total estimated cost of the project is eleven (11) million dollars with an expected opening in the spring of 2008.  

Christopher Heights of Marlborough is owned by Christopher House of Marlborough Limited Partnership, a Massachusetts limited partnership organized specifically to develop, own and operate the community.  The facility’s not-for-profit sponsor and developer, Christopher House Assisted Living, Inc., has sponsored and developed three (3) other assisted living facilities within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  The management agent for the assisted living community is The Grantham Group, LLC of Boston, MA.  Grantham, in addition to having been responsible for the initial and successful lease-up of the three (3) other assisted living facilities, also currently acts as the management agent for them as well.  Senior management of Grantham have over one hundred (100) combined years of experience in healthcare and related businesses.

Special guest speakers were Congressman James McGovern, Attorney General Martha Coakley, Mayor Nancy Stevens, State Representative Stephen LeDuc, and City Council President Arthur Vigeant.