CLEVELAND CIRCLE, MA — If you've been wondering when that fancy new building in Cleveland Circle would open where an Applebee's and the Circle Cinema used to sit, well, it's already happened.

The luxury senior living apartments dubbed "Waterstone at the Circle," actually opened in March and held a grand opening earlier this month to make it official. The luxury senior living community was designed for "active" adults 62 and older looking to give up their home in the burbs and rent in an area where they can walk to shops and restaurants. It's part of a larger development called The Circle that includes a 162-room AC Marriott hotel and restaurants, including a Cafe Landwer. (Those haven't opened just yet, but soon).



"At the beginning of March several residents physically moved in. Others are downsizing and putting their homes on the market," said Jake Quigley, executive director of Watertsone at the Circle. Quigley said about 50 percent of the 92 were already spoken for in some way. Most of the folks moving in so far come from the Brookline, Chestnut Hill, Newton or Boston area, he said.

"I've been in this industry for a while, and one thing that's interesting here is that folks in Brookline don't want to leave Brookline," he said. Having the senior living community in the neighborhood allows people like the woman who moved from near Washington Square to continue making her daily walks around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

"Leaving your home is one thing but a lot of folks are attached to their communities. Here they're still able to have that in tact, and still able to have friends over," he said.

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The staff at Waterstone at the Circle boast that their independent living apartments some of the most luxurious in urban New England.

Like many senior living facilities this place has a fitness but it's also got an aquatic center, it has a dining room, but it's "restaurant-style." It has its own theater, art studio, library, lobby bar with wine lockers, and underground parking.