The chair of Niverville Heritage Holdings says plans are progressing well for a new senior's housing and child daycare campus in St. Adolphe. It would be built on the site of the former personal care home which is in the process of being torn down. Gord Daman notes they received a provincial commitment of $700,000 dollars earlier this year to help develop a 90-space daycare centre. He adds discussions with a local daycare provider are underway regarding a partnership in that part of the project. Daman says they are also continuing to gauge interest in a 36 unit senior's housing component which would include both life-lease units and assisted living suites.

"We're excited about the interest that's been shown in the senior's housing, specifically around life-leases. We continue to be in discussion with the Province of Manitoba in regards to the neighbouring Chalet and the possibility of having that particular facility become part of the overall aging-in-place campus. Obviously, for any residents who are there now, they will not be displaced or disrupted in any way but in the future, as those residents no longer take up any of those suites, then there's the potential of that becoming Supportive Housing for the community."

Daman says they expect to have a very good indication by the end of the year whether they can proceed with the project.

"We've been very, very specific in our due diligence but we're positive and we're encouraged by the support throughout the community, both from the municipality and citizens in general. So, we still anticipate that construction will be starting on the full campus in the spring of 2018."