The leading land lease and aged care operator took in a trip to the US to inspect various retirement and aged care projects "to learn a little bit more about how the other side of the world operates across our same industries," and to meet Greg Norman.
The original developers of the modern land lease community, founder Walter Elliott and his Managing Director son Scott were joined by Daniel Atchison, Palm Lake Care CEO. "We were interested to inspect vertically integrated retirement and aged care communities which proved that people are willing to go ‘up’ if the size is right," said Scott.
"Something that also stood out to us was the type of physical activities that Americans favoured. We noted that boxercise was popular among the older demographic there and that there’s no stopping the climbing popularity of pickleball."
They have now upped the number substantially of pickleball facilities into their Palm Lake Resort Pelican Waters and Forster Lakes masterplans.
They also caught up with Greg Norman at his international headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida.
"It was the first time we’d been to Greg’s own offices and we used the visit to discuss with him, in length, our Palm Lake Resort Pelican Waters project and how well it was integrating with our Pelican Waters Golf Course – a course that Greg and his team originally designed many years ago and then also redesigned for us more recently to allow our Pelican Waters project to spring to life alongside it."
Another topic of discussion with Greg was our plan for Palm Lake Resort Old Bar Beach and its future nine hole ‘reverse’ course," Scott said.
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