Roland Park Place plans second senior living campus at Villa Assumpta property near Towson
A second location proposed for an established Baltimore life plan community
Roland Park Place, a nonprofit life plan community based in north Baltimore City, is moving forward with plans to open a second campus on the Villa Assumpta property near Towson. The site sits at North Charles Street and Bellona Avenue in Baltimore County, a corridor of long-established residential neighborhoods near the city-county line.
The proposed expansion would extend Roland Park Place’s model beyond its existing 40th Street campus, where it operates a continuing care retirement community offering multiple levels of housing and care for older adults. In Maryland, continuing care retirement communities are regulated and tracked as a distinct category of senior living, reflecting the combination of independent living and higher levels of support that can include assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing.
Why Villa Assumpta is becoming available
Villa Assumpta has served for decades as the regional motherhouse for the School Sisters of Notre Dame. The religious order has been preparing to leave the property as part of a relocation plan tied to a move of residents to a Stella Maris campus facility, opening the door to a future sale and redevelopment of the Towson-area campus.
The transition positions the Villa Assumpta site as one of the more prominent large-scale institutional properties in the immediate area to come to market in years, with redevelopment potential shaped by county planning processes, neighborhood expectations and traffic constraints along Charles Street and Bellona Avenue.
What a second campus could mean for services and capacity
Roland Park Place’s current campus is structured around a “life plan” approach designed to support residents as needs change over time. The organization already offers assisted living options that include residential care, memory care and enhanced assisted living, and it operates a health care component that includes skilled nursing services.
A second campus could add capacity in a market where senior housing demand is being reshaped by demographic change, competition among providers, and increasing emphasis on care continuity. Any new campus would also raise operational questions about staffing, specialized clinical services, and how care levels are distributed between sites.
Key issues likely to shape next steps
Property transaction timing and terms tied to the Villa Assumpta transition and sale process.
Baltimore County land-use and development review requirements, including site access, stormwater management and neighborhood compatibility.
Infrastructure impacts at a busy intersection near the city line, where residents often focus on traffic, noise and construction duration.
Service mix decisions, including the balance of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing capacity.
Life plan communities are designed to provide housing and care on a continuum, typically allowing residents to transition between care levels without leaving the community.
Project specifics, including the scale of redevelopment and final program mix, are expected to depend on transaction milestones and county approvals. Further details will also hinge on how the existing buildings and campus layout at Villa Assumpta can be adapted to modern senior living and health care standards.