Developer scraps homes for senior housing plan in Plum

"It will be an upper-scale building with all the amenities," [Keith Nowalk] said. "There will be a management team on site. It will be for people who don't want to take care of their homes anymore." "This is a nice dead-end street," said [Paul Sopcak], who has live...

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Published inTribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
Main Author Zapf, Karen
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Greensburg, Pa Tribune-Review Publishing Company 15.01.2009
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Nowalk, Keith
Sopcak, Paul
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Summary:"It will be an upper-scale building with all the amenities," [Keith Nowalk] said. "There will be a management team on site. It will be for people who don't want to take care of their homes anymore." "This is a nice dead-end street," said [Paul Sopcak], who has lived in his home nearly 50 years. "I wouldn't mind houses. But I don't like 26 units. We have a nice street. I would hate to lose it." Nowalk said Sopcak has nothing to worry about: "The traffic would be a lot less (with the apartment building). Traffic studies show that retirees do less driving."