LANDMARK AUCTION- Carrollton Courthouse, One of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places Sells to Out-of-Towner

The entire Colonial Oaks Senior Living family feels truly blessed today because we now have the opportunity to serve the great city of New Orleans!

We have two new communities planned in the beautiful Garden District and Uptown, and one of our projects includes the careful renovation of a historic national treasure, the famous Carrollton Courthouse, which has been vacant for years, and precariously sitting on the national top-11 endangered buildings list. 

We will be restoring this important landmark with our local experts (Tom Winingder, Patrick Schindler, Kendall Winingder and their entire team at Felicity Property Co.) and building a state-of-the-art senior living community on the site. Felicity Property Co. recently completed a gorgeous renovation of The Saint Anna and routinely wins awards from the Louisiana Landmarks Society.

The new senior living community at the Carrollton Courthouse site will be unlike any other in the nation. This massive renovation project revitalizing the historic landmark will poetically embody the Colonial Oaks' philosophy toward senior care of truly revitalizing the lives of our residents. The Colonial Oaks Senior Living family is honored to be able to carry on this historic building's legacy of service to the local community (formerly a courthouse and then a long-time public school) through serving the seniors of New Orleans. This new community will also marry the long-standing Colonial Oaks 40-year history and mission of serving seniors with the latest research, technology, and innovation of tomorrow.

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Additionally, we plan to celebrate the Courthouse's important role as a local school over so many years and find ways to incorporate this into our renovation planning and programming. We'd love to have a collection of old yearbooks and other historic memorabilia from its school days and we will be working on tracking those down. One thing we have done at our communities in the past is host after school tutoring for local children. We love the synergy of cross-generational learning and that seems like a natural fit for the old Schoolhouse-Courthouse. We'll be exploring many more ideas over the coming months as the project planning commences.

We want to thank Reggie Winfield of Windfeel Properties, a local New Orleans real estate expert, for running a very professional and smooth process; thank you Reggie.

Established in 1977 and headquartered in Houston, TX, Colonial Oaks Senior Living is a soon to be 40-year-old, best-in-class owner / operator / developer whose executives have a combined 140+ years of experience in the senior living industry. The Colonial Oaks family currently operates 9 communities in the region, with two located just up the road in Lafayette, LA. We are committed to continuing the work that our founder, Robert Caplan, began 39 years ago as we grow the company over the next 40 years. Our entire team is excited about the future and we are truly grateful and privileged to be able to serve the beloved city of New Orleans.

Many of you may know that Colonial Oaks Senior Living recently purchased two sister communities just down the road in Lafayette, LA... 

Come by for some Free Crawfish at our 40th Birthday Party!

Please come join us for some free crawfish at our 40th Birthday Party and Crawfish Boil being held at our memory care community in Lafayette on April 29th from 11AM to 2PM (161 S Beadle Rd. Lafayette, LA 70508). Please RSVP to me so we know how much crawfish we should order. We will also be raising donations for the Alzheimer’s Association and giving away two roundtrip airplane tickets to anywhere in the country, so please come by for some free lunch and a chance to win!

We also have a few more communities under contract, and while our operating footprint currently includes Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, and soon California, we will be expanding into more regions over time.

Needless to say, our family is growing...

As we grow into new regions, we will be on the lookout for exceptional individuals to join our team, including the industry's top clinical, operations, and marketing leaders who share our passion for serving seniors. We will also be on the lookout for the industry's top accountants, financial analysts, asset managers, and construction & development professionals. Please message me directly if you are interested in joining our growing family or if you know someone we should consider. We are always excited to meet professionals who share our passion for serving seniors. Please stay tuned for more updates during this exciting time and thank you for reading this article.

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Here's to another 40 years ahead, to a bright future devoted to loving and serving our residents, their families, and our team members... and soon in the city of New Orleans!

Sincerely yours,

Carl Mittendorff, Chairman & CEO