March 30 sees over 50 leading speakers at the Retirement Communities World Conference in Sydney, including Paul Klaassen who founded and still runs Sunrise Seniors Living, operating over 440 villages in the US, Canada, Germany and UK. Given the housing market in each of those countries, he will have an unrivalled insight into the challenges of new sales. See http://www.terrapinn.com/2009/rcw_au/programme.stm for the full program.
SATURDAY is your water cooler talking point: Odyssey’s new direction
When Odyssey Lifestyle Care Communities began planning its $150 million Chevron Island project, it leaned on trusted tier-one contractors. For its future pipeline, the operator is taking a new path. CEO Aaron Lavell talks exclusively to SATURDAY...