While adding senior housing on the far Northwest Side, SeniorLifestyles also will help the New Horizons Center for theDevelopmentally Disabled, which is selling 4.68 acres to themultifamily developer. The money from the property sale will allowNew Horizons to build a 30,000-sf school to replace its currentfacility, which are three inter-connected single-family homesconverted to the agency's use. New Horizons will built its schooleast of Senior Lifestyle's six-story rental building, which will beunder construction early next year at the northeast corner of OakPark Avenue and Forest Preserve Drive.

"This is a golden opportunity for the neighborhood," Allen says."It addresses two significant voids in the neighborhood."

Senior Lifestyle officials say the Autumn Green project will besimilar to its Midway Village development at 67th Street and CiceroAvenue. The campus setting will be priced for the middlemarket.