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Cypress Cove Retirement Center

Location: Fort Myers, Florida

Architect: Reese Lower Patrick & Scott, Architects, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Owner: Health Park Florida, Fort Myers, Florida

General Contractor: The Weitz Company, Des Moines, Iowa

Cypress Cove is a 750,000 square-foot full-service continuing care retirement center built for Health Park Florida as a part of the Lee Memorial Hospital System. It consists of (295) independent living units in a four-story, five-wing structure; (60) skilled nursing beds in a two-story wing, (75) assisted living beds in a two-story wing; (18) duplex or triplex stand alone cottages; a 70,000 sf commons center with a full service kitchen and dining, a multipurpose room, activity spaces, housekeeping facilities, administrative offices and a health club with indoor pool and spa.

The mechanical systems include a 1,600 ton central chilled water plant and a 15,000 MBH heating water plant that includes domestic water heating capacity. The water distribution systems are arranged in a primary/secondary way and are controlled by plant wide digital packaged pumping systems. A series of constant volume and VAV air handling units serve all of the public areas and back-of-house spaces while a four-pipe fan coil system serves all of the skilled care and assisted living units and two-pipe fan coils with electric heating coils serve the independent living units. The cottages have independent gas-fired forced air furnaces with condensing units.

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