About Arcadia at Sewanee
Our Vision
Arcadia at Sewanee will provide a continuum of innovative and responsive residential living and support services for older adults. For those who seek to call Sewanee their home, Arcadia will incorporate and reflect Sewanee’s traditions of honor, community, and respect.
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Our Core Values
At Arcadia at Sewanee, we believe:
In the University of the South’s motto: Ecce Quam Bonum (Behold how good it is when brothers and sisters dwell together in unity).
The health of a community can be measured by how it meets the needs of its youngest and eldest members.
Aging is a part of the natural life cycle. All residents and participants in Arcadia programs will be treated with dignity and inclusion.
That Sewanee is unique, and Arcadia will at all times reflect the community of which it is a part.
Overview
Arcadia at Sewanee is a nonprofit corporation initiated by The University of the South in 2015 with the goal of establishing a continuing care retirement community in Sewanee, Tennessee. Its Board of Trustees is a diverse group of community-spirited leaders who have been generous in their gifts of work and money to move this vision forward through professional marketing studies, site identification, financial modeling, and preliminary architectural designs.
Blakeford Senior Life, a respected and trusted Nashville-based nonprofit provider of quality senior lifestyle solutions and health services, has given Arcadia valuable counsel. In 2022, with Arcadia’s support, Blakeford established LiveWell on the Mountain, an at-home continuing care program for Sewanee and Monteagle area residents as they age.
Plans now underway anticipate moving forward in the year ahead with major fundraising, site and building design, and short and long-term financing. The projected timeline calls for construction, to begin in 2029, of approximately 130 independent/assisted living and 12 memory care units on 12.5 wooded acres near Sewanee’s central campus and downtown areas.
Aerial View of Sewanee: Arcadia at Sewanee’s contemplated site location is outlined in red.
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