Silverado families seek pause on new BCHD Redondo Beach redevelopment plan
by Garth Meyer Residents with family at Silverado Memory Care, on the Beach Cities Health District campus in Redondo Beach, are organizing to stop the facility from being closed as a result of a pending lease to redevelop the BCHD land. Nicole Purohit, who moved her mother into Silverado in February, started a petition at Change.org, which now has 1,090 signatures, asking the BCHD board to pause their redevelopment plan, which is set to be voted on May 27. Silverado occupies part of four floors in the former South Bay Hospital. Its 111 residents include the most severe Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia patients. “It’s the only facility in the South Bay that cares for them,” Purohit said. Purhohit’s mother had been evicted, her daughter said, from two other memory care facilities because of the level of her condition. “Silverado is just outstanding,” Purohit said. “And as demographics change… We’re going to need places like this.” BCHD has a pending lease agreement with Sunrise Assisted Living for nearly half of the District’s 11-acre hilltop campus. Sunrise, based in Oakton,Virginia, intends to build a 217-unit independent and assisted living complex there, with memory care, though…
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