Project specifications:
Location: Livingston, NJ
Project Type: Healthcare - Renovation
Architect: Rotwein and Blake Associated Architects PA
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Project Summary:
Hollister Construction Services was retained by the Friendship Circle to construction LifeTown, a facility that is redefining the landscape for children with special needs. Built for The Friendship Circle, one of the fastest growing nonprofit organizations for children with special needs, the new 53,000sf, two-level complex features a wide range of amenities.
The state-of-the-art facility on Microlab Road in Livingston, NJ features recreational, therapeutic and educational space catering to the special needs community. LifeTown provides participants with a black box theater, a three-lane bowling alley and a gymnasium.
It also houses an aquatic center with a therapy pool, a teaching kitchen, tactile rooms designed to stimulate the senses and will also provide leadership training facilities for the families and community at large.
Standing in the center of LIfeTown is an 11,000sf simulated Main Street, known as Life Village. Life Village features storefronts including a bank and florist, food and book store, a salon, pet shop, health-care facility, synagogue and cafe. With traffic lights and other elements of a downtown street, Life Village teach children the skills to navigate, work and be engaged in a real-life setting.
A therapeutic play center that resembles an outdoor park with a gated entrance, trees, benches, swings, slides and a rock-climbing wall is a key feature of LifeTown and very popular with the children. |
