Village of Jubilee developing senior care community

LOS LUNAS  —  Plans were unveiled recently for the "Village of Jubilee,” a $40 million, nine-acre “Lifeline Community” slated for development adjacent to the current Jubilee Los Lunas development off N.M. 6 west of Interstate 25.S

Frederick Vandi, of Senior Living Market, based in Indianapolis, Ind., gave a 90-minute presentation on the new venture, which is a collaboration between senior living design company Luminaut and Lone Mountain Contracting of Bosque Farms.

The new development, which is set to span nine acres south of the current Jubilee Los Lunas community, will offer a full continuum of care — from independent living in full-sized houses to casita-style, standalone apartments to a center for assisted living and long-term care. The assisted living center will work in concert with the existing 55-and-older Jubilee subdivision. It will be the first development of its kind in New Mexico, said Lone Mountain Contracting founder and Jubilee owner Nick Blea.

“It’s just a natural progression,” Blea said. “We have resort-style living here in Jubilee, too, and (our residents) are used to it, and they can just transition with their friends. Actually, they’ll have first priority for being a resident or an investor, whatever they want.”

Blea said the project aims to provide current and future senior residents with a seamless, resort-style continuum of care, allowing them to “age in place” without needing to relocate as their health needs change.

The concept of a 55-and-older community that encompasses three stages of senior life — from moving to a 55-and-older community of full-sized houses to smaller independent living houses to assisted living is very common in the continental United States.

“Ever since I took over this place in 2012, my first thought was ‘What’s the next step after this?’” Blea said. “(Los Lunas Jubilee) is nice, but it would make sense to have an assisted living center right next door, because I just started hearing about assisted living. So, I’ve always wanted to do that from the very beginning. It’s not about the money. It’s just what’s good for the community.”

In presenting details of the development, Vandi emphasizes the Jubilee community’s deep roots in local culture, highlighting the community’s intentional design that incorporates New Mexico’s historical architecture, red rock mesas, and famous red and green chili. He said the presentation had also been shared with investors in San Diego the week prior.

“As much as we are exporting this to other places for them to see what we’re doing in New Mexico, we would like New Mexico to own this,” he said. “It’s being built in New Mexico. It’s going to be built by New Mexicans.”

The campus will include 72 independent living units, including 1,500–1,800 square-foot casitas/quadruples, or “quadcitas,” Blea termed them, and a larger center which provides for 48 assisted living units, 24 dedicated memory care units for Alzheimer’s/dementia care and a minimum of 12 units for short-term post-hospital recovery and therapy in a resort setting. The larger complex would break ground first, at a building cost of $20 million. The cost for the independent units will also run $20 million and can break as soon as enough units have been purchased.

Blea said he hopes to break ground as early as spring 2026. He said the team is currently trying to find outside investors as well as folks already living at Jubilee Los Lunas and the larger Valencia County, who might want to invest.

To support current residents of the Jubilee Los Lunas, the team plans to offer a program called “Village Care” before the physical facility is constructed, which will export community services directly to the homes of existing Jubilee residents, helping them “stay in their home as much as possible” during the development phase.

Current homeowners in the existing Jubilee community will be prioritized for spots in the new facility, Vandi and Blea both said.

“We think that a major investor type, capital person is probably right around the corner. We already had a couple of inquiries just in San Diego,” Blea said. “But we want to give the homeowners the first opportunity and then supplement it, if you will. (Finding investors) can take two or three years, but we’re looking to fast-track. We think there’s enough interest in general that it could happen soon. Once we have a handle on the investors, which we hope will be in the next few months, then we still have to start doing the engineering.”

More information can be found at www.lifecarevillages.us or by sending an email to info@seniorlivingmarket.com.