Last night my wife took me out for a Father’s Day dinner. We live in the Jupiter area of Florida. We were trying to find parking in a neighborhood called Abacoa. The neighborhood is bustling with independent Restaurants, boutiques, and business. Max Plank Institute for Neuro Research, Scripts Institute for Medical Research, and Florida Atlantic University are all part of the downtown development. The Miami Marlin’s and the St. Louis Cardinal’s call this home for spring training. Needless to say, finding parking was difficult, until I ran across a totally empty parking lot.
The parking lot had beautiful brick pavers. Looking around, it appeared I was on the campus of a Life Plan style Senior Living Community. After dinner, it was a too dark to shoot a video, so I came home to do some research into exactly what this was.
According to an article in McKnight’s, Senior Living News, dated August 31st, 2018, “Town demand could delay opening of $75 million senior living complex”, Lois Bower’s reports:
“The owners of a $75 million, 235,445-sqaure-foot senior living and skilled nursing complex that is almost complete in Jupiter, FL, may be delayed in welcoming residents unless the town waives a requirement that the complex contain a research component as a condition of opening.”
NuVista Living’s Institute for Healing Living is supposed to be a 62 bed assisted living, 30 bed memory care, and 129 bed skilled nursing facility. The project began in 2010 with the promise of 5000 square feet of clinical research and 17,000 square feet of medical research in collaboration with a university.
In 2015 the property was bought for $10 million, as relationships soured over the development.
On November 14th, 2018, The Palm Beach Post, covered this in an article titled, “Institute for Healthy Living stumbles through first hurdle to get opening approved”, by Hannah Morse. It asked the question:
” A $75 million Jupiter medical complex sits empty. Why ?”
It appears that the 22,000 sqaure feet of research was never actually built. Because of this, the town of Jupiter will not issue a cerificate of occupancy. Without being able to get occupancy, they can’t get the commitment from a medical providors for whom they would build the space.
A true “Catch-22.”. What will become of The Institute for Healing Living ? In front sits a lease sign for a medical research facility.
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Mavrik Concepts 
Hello,
I also have been following this project since its inception.
I do believe, however, that the reason why the city of Jupiter has not approved a certificate of occupancy is that the developer failed to secure a partnership with a clinical research company to occupy the space developed for it, an not because office space was not built. A partnership with a research company was a requirement for the City to approve the project in the first place.
Thank you for reporting. It would be nice to see this project come to a conclusion and bring much-needed clinical and research-related jobs to the area.