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Executive Summary
The Grand Oaks Assisted Living Facility is part of Sibley Memorial Hospital, located in Washington, D.C. It is an affluent assisted living residence that strives to combine comfortable surroundings, personalized assistance, and a full range of services and activities. Some amenities include a comfortable dining room, with an executive chef, clubroom, spa, beauty and barber shop, as well as a green house and chapel. The new addition, approximately 60,000 ft2, will extend off the two pods, which are at the east and west of the existing building. To maintain traffic flow; the building will connect at floors two through four of the existing building, thus allowing vehicular movement throughout the site. This new addition will sit adjacent to the existing facility on what is currently a parking lot. So as not to loose valuable parking spaces, the new building will maintain a parking area in the first floor level. The exterior façade will be like that of the existing, and floors 2-4 will provide additional tenant space, as well as a day/activity rooms. There will also be a 7,000 ft2 addition to the dining room which will provide addition room for the increased number of residence. The dining room offers the integration of daylight with large skylights over the center of the space, as well as beautiful views into the garden spaces.