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Wayfinder Master Planning

Our master planning service helps you imagine, or reimagine, what’s possible—creating a strategic roadmap to align your mission, support growth, and position your community for long-term success.

Vision-Driven Planning. Future-Ready Communities.

LCS Development’s Wayfinder process is more than master planning - it’s a long range, holistic look at consumer, market and competitive data to identify key projects and areas of focus. Just as communities are often developed over a 10- to 15-year timeframe, the master plan provides a phased approach to make improvements positioning the community for the next generation.

Whether you're planning new senior housing projects or modernizing existing infrastructure, we help identify opportunities that support market feasibility for senior living communities, ensuring each phase of development strengthens your competitive position.

The process helps owners or boards answer these critical questions:

  • What makes sence for our community, both today and into the future?
  • If multiple needs are identified, which project comes first? 
  • Once the needs are identified, how will we pay for these improvements?

 

Experience Master Planning in Action

The Wayfinder process, or master planning process, follows three phases over the course of approximately six months. Attention to detail is important to the success of developing a master plan for your community.

To begin, schedule a site visit with development professionals to make preliminary observations of the site, buildings, operations, and residential programs. This phase also considers zoning, site conditions, current and future financial situations, and the market potential.

Findings from the assessment phase are compiled, analyzed, and used to develop a plan for addressing identified projects. Collaboration meetings between LCS Development and community leaders provide a forum to discuss various strategies and scenarios.

Once all components of the phased improvements, from design and programming to finances, are considered, a final, custom master plan developed by LCS Development is presented to the board or owner. This plan includes new and renovated building criteria, a site utilization plan, a phasing plan, and a business plan.

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