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About Acanthus Senior Living

Let’s be real: Moving from home to a senior center can be difficult. How can we make this transition and experience better? What if you, as a transitioning senior, could simply move into a senior center next to your parish or a neighboring parish and keep the relationships you have with family, other parishioners and the church? Now you can. Shea Connelly saw a need for caring, personalized senior living option that allowed an individual to continue to be intimately involved with their local church and/or local neighborhood. Through its partnership with the Church to create senior facilities on parish grounds, Acanthus focuses on caring for not just the physical and mental needs, but the family, spiritual and community needs of each individual resident. Quality senior living is taken to a new level.

Acanthus Development

With 90 years of collective experience in planning, development and construction. Acanthus Development will provide high quality community delivery every time. The founder Bart Shea brings a personalized service to each and every client. Utilizing 30 years of diversified experience to help define and fulfill the objective of the community. It is our goal to create a relationship in which the client can expect integrity, professionalism, accountability and ultimately a partner in the community vision.

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Bart Shea

Mr. Shea is the founder and CEO of Shea Connelly and has been building and contracting since 1980 in the Greater Phoenix Area. Mr. Shea leads the company in all aspects of the construction lifestyle including; real estate development, asset management, home building and construction. 

Experience


  • 40 years of Real Estate Development & Construction experience.

  • Over 90 years of Senior Management combined experience. 

  • Specializing  in multifamily, senior housing, and mixed-use developments located in the Phoenix Metro. 

  • Over 10,000 multifamily units developed
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