Conner Creek Senior Living - Low to Moderate Housing (Flyer)

About Us

Our Vision

Stage 1 - 2004 - 2007

In 2004, the Conner Creek Village Campus began its transformation from a fully functioning hospital to a vision of a mixed use non‐profit center and residential campus. As St. John Health (SJH) consolidated its operations, they began the transformation of the former St. John Northeast Community Hospital into the present, St. John Conner Creek Village.

In a shared vision with Detroit Community Initiative (DCI), SJH sold surplus campus land to DCI for the sole purpose of developing quality affordable housing for seniors. The first phase of the 96 unit complex was completed in December 2005. These 48 units are in high demand. Phase I has a wait list for occupancy and over 20 families are awaiting the development of phase II scheduled to break ground in August 2009, subject to closing on financing.

During this earlier time frame, SJH worked diligently to recruit tenants to the commercial facility while maintaining a 24 hour Emergency Room and an array of SJH programming and services. Complementing these health related services is a great mix of community development groups and human service agencies, Such as: Detroit Community Initiative, The Heat And Warmth Fund, DTE , NCADD‐GDA, Open Arms, Northeast Village CDC, Osborn Business Development Center, Wise Virgin Ministries, We Care and more…

St. John Health continues to provide tremendous community support by furnishing free space for community meetings, workshops or children/family services to area groups. Whether its 12 Step programs, Block Clubs, Community Health activities, or Detroit Police Community Relations Meetings, these activities are vital to the sustainability of the community. Conner Creek Village is an anchor for the community.

The next stage of this vision requires a re‐configuration of the campus' footprint to insure all the above mentioned programs and more can exist in a professional atmosphere that is cost effective and accessible to the community. Since late 2007, SJH and DCI have discussed possible ways to make this transition while also providing additional space for affordable housing. DCI and SJH agree that three goals need to be met within this new plan.

1. Continue to provide health care to the community (primary/urgent care)
   
2. Support the development of job training programs for various careers but with an emphasis on the needs and opportunity within the growing health care field
   
3. To build low income housing that will meet the needs of students, tenants and area residents.

An additional positive outcome of the planning process has been the ability to offer space to the existing tenants while also building out space for new complimentary services such as: Adult Literacy Training provided by The Dominican Literacy Center, UCF Head Start, Foreclosure Counseling, Tax Filing Assistance for low income families and additional job training assistance. We will be able to retain a level of community use access to support neighborhood groups, 12 Step meetings, local government outreach and community health programming.