Brooksby from above
Feb. 9th, 2024 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscI couldn't find a map of Brooksby on its website, but Google Maps' satellite view provided me with this:
Everything that's directly accessible from Brooksby Village Drive (except for the Walmart parking lot at the upper right) is Brooksby Village. Our apartment is in the north-pointing corner of the building at the southeast end, on the 4th floor (which is physically the 5th floor, but for some reason in our section of the complex the ground floor is called "T" for Terrace).
The building marked "Braeburn Gardens" is the Continuing Care section, about which I know very little (and I hope it stays that way for a long time). I don't know why Google Maps chose to label that building and not the others. The rest of the complex is independent living. Much of the wooded area surround the complex is part of the grounds.
The 10 residential buildings are grouped around three "clubhouses" – public areas that contain restaurants, mailboxes, a front desk, and various offices plus conference rooms and places where people can congregate, schmooze, play games, do jigsaw puzzles, etc. There are aboveground (second- or third-floor level) enclosed bridges connecting the sections, and adjacent buildings are linked indoors, in almost all cases on multiple floors. The residential buildings are 5-7 stories high, the clubhouses are 2 stories (except for the one on the west side, which for some unknown reason is only 1).
The buildings all have somewhat pretentious-sounding names, ending in words like "Court", "Gardens" "Terrace", etc. Ours is called "Orchard View Court", and although some of it it does face toward the large orchard on the neighboring property (part of which you can see at the lower right), we don't actually have a view of it, because of the wooded hillside between us and it.
Everything that's directly accessible from Brooksby Village Drive (except for the Walmart parking lot at the upper right) is Brooksby Village. Our apartment is in the north-pointing corner of the building at the southeast end, on the 4th floor (which is physically the 5th floor, but for some reason in our section of the complex the ground floor is called "T" for Terrace).
The building marked "Braeburn Gardens" is the Continuing Care section, about which I know very little (and I hope it stays that way for a long time). I don't know why Google Maps chose to label that building and not the others. The rest of the complex is independent living. Much of the wooded area surround the complex is part of the grounds.
The 10 residential buildings are grouped around three "clubhouses" – public areas that contain restaurants, mailboxes, a front desk, and various offices plus conference rooms and places where people can congregate, schmooze, play games, do jigsaw puzzles, etc. There are aboveground (second- or third-floor level) enclosed bridges connecting the sections, and adjacent buildings are linked indoors, in almost all cases on multiple floors. The residential buildings are 5-7 stories high, the clubhouses are 2 stories (except for the one on the west side, which for some unknown reason is only 1).
The buildings all have somewhat pretentious-sounding names, ending in words like "Court", "Gardens" "Terrace", etc. Ours is called "Orchard View Court", and although some of it it does face toward the large orchard on the neighboring property (part of which you can see at the lower right), we don't actually have a view of it, because of the wooded hillside between us and it.
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Date: 2024-02-10 05:32 pm (UTC)