The Official Blog of Episcopal Retirement Services

Members of the ERS team recently attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the new and exciting Manse Apartments for seniors. With affordable housing in short supply for older adults and given ERS's ongoing commitment to supporting the wellbeing of our community’s seniors, we couldn’t be more thrilled about this project or our part in it.

Here’s a closer look at the transformation of this historic Manse Hotel into affordable senior housing means for its future residents.

When the deal was done, and St. Paul Village became the third member of the ERS affordable living family, the CEO of ERS, Doug Spitler, sat down with Jay Kittenbrink.

Kittenbrink, a Madisonville native, had run his neighborhood’s largest retirement community for twenty-six years, with varying results. The buildings were growing old and tired. The people had stopped coming to rent the 80 efficiency units.

Every day, we at Episcopal Retirement Services work hard to uphold our belief that older adults should live with dignity and comfort in a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment regardless of their financial situation.

But it’s not every day that we receive an award for those efforts. That’s why we’re so proud that Homebase Cincinnati honored us with its “Inspired Placemaking” award for the Marlowe Court community for limited-income seniors in Cincinnati’s College Hill neighborhood, which opened in May.