Brookdale North Boulder

Brookdale North Boulder serves its meals beneath a two-story atrium with mountain views, in an independent living community at 3350 30th Street in north-central Boulder, Colorado. The starting monthly rate includes both dining and housekeeping, and the community is pet friendly. Independent living is the care level at Brookdale North Boulder, and the community's list of services includes an emergency alert system, a concierge and transportation.

Residents also have a beauty and barber shop on site, along with a business center with internet access, parking on the property and guest suites. An At Home Service appears next to independent living on the community's list of care levels as a set of optional services, and its specific services are worth confirming directly with the community. Meals are served in the atrium dining room and in a café, and the building also holds a private dining room and a community kitchen.

A sample day on the activity calendar includes flower arranging, B-Fit chair yoga and a game of Mexican Train, and that same schedule lists an outing to the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, a poker night and a movie night. Indoor shared spaces for those days include a theatre, a game room, billiards and an arts and crafts studio. Apartments come in five floor plans: Studio A, Studio B, a One Bedroom, a One Bedroom with Den and a Two Bedroom.

Studio A, Studio B and both one-bedroom plans each come with a kitchenette, while the Two Bedroom has a full kitchen. The One Bedroom adds a separate bedroom to a living room of about 24 by 12 feet, along with a deck, and the One Bedroom with Den pairs a den and a bedroom with two decks. The Two Bedroom plan has a living room of about 15 by 18 feet, two bedrooms, a dining room, a fireplace, two baths and a deck.

The listed measurements are approximate, and individual apartments within the same plan may differ. Outdoors, the property has a courtyard and garden, a greenhouse for gardening and landscaped grounds. Brookdale North Boulder is set up for older adults who want independent living in an apartment within a pet friendly community in north-central Boulder. Residents with an interest in gardening have the greenhouse and the courtyard garden, those who keep active have the fitness center and B-Fit chair yoga, and the library and the piano are part of the indoor shared spaces as well.

The community sits in the Glenwood Grove-North Iris area of north-central Boulder, and the BOUND 30th Street bus stops right at the door. A Safeway with a pharmacy at 3325 28th Street is about 0.3 miles west, and the Twenty Ninth Street open-air shopping center at 1710 29th Street, about 1.2 miles south, holds Apple, Nordstrom Rack and Century Theatres along with restaurants such as True Food Kitchen and Shake Shack, in a center that groups fashion, dining and entertainment in one open-air setting.

Valmont City Park, a little over a mile southeast at 3160 Airport Road, has a 42-acre bike park, an asphalt pump track, a skate park, an off-leash dog park and an 18-hole disc golf course. Boulder Community Health Foothills Hospital, which provides emergency and trauma care at 4747 Arapahoe Avenue, is about 1.7 miles southeast of the community in a straight line.