January 9, 2013
Arts-Oriented Seniors Project Opens
Tenants have started moving into Meta Housing Corp.’s $32-million housing development here for seniors that it says is the first in the nation to have an on-site professional theater.......Read
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January 7, 2013
Meta
Housing kicks off affordable housing
project in Oakland
Oakland
City Council President Larry Reid
held a celebration Oct. 24 at the
corner of McArthur and Durant streets
in East Oakland, as a demolition team
knocked down an old Giant Burger fast
food franchise to make room for Oakland
34, a new housing development for
seniors.......Read
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December 11, 2012
Seniors
and the Road — NoHo Home Companions
Some people retire
from the theater. But others can now
retire to the theater. The new NoHo
Senior Arts Colony is a housing development
that also includes a professional
working theater on the premises.......Read
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November 24, 2012
N.
Hollywood senior housing complex caters
to artistic tenants
The
$32-million NoHo Senior Arts Colony
is intended for residents age 62 and
over with interests in such pursuits
as singing, acting, photography and
writing......Read
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August 15, 2012
For
Healthy Aging, a Late Act in the Footlights.
What kind of old age
will you have? Many of us look forward
to spending our retirement expanding
our world - traveling, trying what
we never had time to do, taking classes
that give us new knowledge and skills.
These activities are not only desirable
in themselves, they also help us live
longer and healthier lives.....Read
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May 1, 2012
The
Secret to Housing? Building More Than
Bedrooms.
Meta
Housing Corporation brings supermarkets
to food deserts, public-transit alternatives
to a car-loving culture, and 'art
colonies' to an overlooked segment
of the senior population.....Read
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April 20, 2011
Groundbreaking Ceremony for Long Beach
Senior Arts Colony
A
200-unit, transit-oriented residential
community designed for active seniors
will begin to take shape on Thursday,
April 21, with the groundbreaking
ceremony for the Long Beach Senior
Arts Colony (Colony)....Read
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January 31, 2011
NoHo Project Boosts Profile of Senior
Housing Company
Building
on the success of The Burbank Senior
Artists Colony, Meta Housing Corporation
is now banking on its innovative senior
housing model to serve as an economic
catalyst for the NoHo Arts District’s
east side...Read
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August 1, 2010
Adams & Central Mixed Use Development
Wins 4 Awards for Best Affordable
Mixed Use Project
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July 1, 2010
NMTCs Make Shopping for Fresh Groceries
Easy
Crowds
gathered on June 7 to celebrate the
grand opening of 80 affordable housing
units at Central Avenue and Adams
Boulevard in South Los Angeles, Calif.,
on the same corner where a full-service
grocery store has been drawing customers
since February...Read
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June 7, 2010
South L.A. officially marks opening
of retail-housing complex
Los Angeles officials
planned to mark the grand opening
Monday of a $40.6-million retail and
residential development that backers
say has brought renewed life to a
long-neglected corner of South Los
Angeles...Read
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April 13, 2010
Senior
Artists Colony Project with Live Theater
Slated for NoHo Arts District
CRA/LA Signs On to
Help Build Innovative $42 Million
Project...Read
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April 10, 2010
On the market: Senior artist rental
communities
In
July 2005, professional musician Betti
Vincent vacated a “ratty little apartment
on Hollywood Way” and moved into a
one-bedroom apartment at the Burbank
Senior Artists Colony, a rental housing
community built for creative souls
ages 55 and older...Read
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March 5, 2009
Corona
City Council approves senior housing
project
Corona will gain
152 units of affordable senior housing
that could be ready for tenants
in 2010, after the City Council
on Wednesday unanimously approved
plans for the project...Read
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February 19, 2009
CRA/LA
Approves $2-million Loan for Senior
Housing in Panorama City
A $2-million construction
loan was approved Thursday, February
19, by the Board of Commissioners
of the Community Redevelopment Agency
of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA)
to help fund the $26-million La Coruna
Senior Apartments in Panorama City...Read
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May 1, 2008
Meta
Housing featured in Urban Land Magazine
Developers are trying
to understand how to create housing
projects for seniors today that will
also be relevant for baby boomers
ten to 15 years from now...Read
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January 1, 2008
Meta
Housing featured in Century Housing's
2007 Annual Report
Meta
Housing is one of the leading builders
of affordable apartments for low-income
seniors and families in Southern California.
In the 14 years, Meta has developed
more than 2,600 apartments in 20 separate
communities, 80% of which were designed
for seniors...Read
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January 1, 2008
CHC
Jan. 2007 Newsletter features Emerald
Terrace Family Apts.
The
elves at the Department of Housing
and Community Development (HCD) in
Sacramento were working overtime during
the holidays and released ‘draft’
Infill Set-Aside guidelines on December
26...Read
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September 1, 2007
Housing
With Heart
In
today’s affordable housing environment,
it is not enough to simply put a roof
over people’s heads...Read
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August 20, 2007
Developer
Proves Affordable Housing Can Also
Be Profitable
Affordable
housing developer John Husky was walking
out of Emerald Terrace, a $25 million
housing complex his company recently
built in City West, when a funny thing
happened...Read
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June 15, 2007
Arroyo
Grande senior apartments win raves
An affordable apartment
complex for low-income seniors in
Arroyo Grande has won two gold medals
for out-standing design, said a spokeswoman
for Meta Housing., the project's developer...Read
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September 10, 2006
New
York Times Article - Retirees Discover
a Place To Foster Their Inner Artist
As hairdresser to the
stars, Connie Nichols, an 86-year-old
retiree (Apt. 225), has been on intimate
terms with Olivia de Havilland's hair,
Ethel Merman's hair, Doris Day's hair
and Natalie Wood's hair, which she
spritzed for her wedding to Robert
Wagner...Read
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August 1, 2006
NEA's
Creativity and Aging: Best Practices
The Burbank
Senior Artists Colony is a 141-unit
senior apartment community sponsored
by More Than Shelters For Senior,
the City of Burbank and Meta Housing
Corporation...Read
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November 1, 2005
Creativity
Reigns at Burbank Senior Artists Colony
As the baby boom generation
grows older, housing for seniors is
sure to become a more competitive
segment of the marketplace, with developers
seeking new ways to distinguish their
projects among the myraid options
available...Read
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September 1, 2005
Awaken
the Inner Artist
It's
been said that everyone has at least
one great work of art in them. Residents
of the Burbank Senior Arts Colony
have all the time and resources they
need to explore the truth of that
idea - and ejoy every second of it...Read
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June 21, 2004
Creativity
to be Big Draw at Senior Colony
As a youngster in upstate
New York, Tim Carpenter was fascinated
by the creative electricity of the
nearby artists colony called Yaddo...Read
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April 1, 2004
Senior
Living 2004
META
Housing's Piedmont Senior Apartments,
in North Hollywood, scored a rare
triple win at "Best of Seniors
Housing Design" Awards held recently
in Las Vegas...Read
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February 1, 2004
Sizzle
That Really Sells - Attract and Retain
Residents with Cool Amenities
Seniors at Meta Housing
Corp.'s Burbank Senior Artists Colony,
a 141-unit project in Los Angeles,
will get a chance to dabble in the
arts, including video and film editing
as well as painting and acting...Read
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September 15, 2003
Lack
of Supply Drives Affordable Senior-Housing
Demand Higher
Elderly
Los Angeles residents may wait eight
years for an affordable unit as demand
from aging population continues to
grow...Read
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September 2, 2003
Making
Affordable Housing Pencil Out
When it comes to affordable
housing, there is perception and then
there is reality. Affordable-housing
projects are saddled with the image
of being poorly built, financial headaches
that become blights in the neighborhood
and a drain on the owner's pcket...Read
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July 26, 2003
Breaking
New Ground
Seniors
put their talents on display as developers
and city officials gather to kick
off Artists Colony...Read
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July 24, 2003
Artists
Colony gets Under Way
City
officials broke ground Wednesday on
the $22 million Senior Artists Colony
- a housing and studio project intended
to lure entertainment-industry retirees
or creatively inclined seniors...Read
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