This note has been circulating about the plans for the new retirement community planned for the site of the old Scripps home:

Dear Neighbors:

The Episcopal Home Communities would like to update you on our plans for creating MonteCedro, a new nonprofit retirement community on the site of the former Scripps Home. We invite you to a meeting at the Altadena Community Center, 730 E. Altadena Drive, at 7 p.m. on April 17th to hear the progress on the project. This meeting will be a continuation of the dialogue with our neighbors that started over a year ago.  We have made diligent efforts to respond to all of the input we received from neighbors in our first meetings.   This meeting will set the stage for a series of additional community meetings to be held in the future.

The Episcopal Home Communities and The Scripps Home now have completed their merger, and all the residents of The Scripps Home are settled in their new home at Scripps Kensington in Alhambra, which is the original retirement community where The Episcopal Home Communities began its operation in 1923.  The Scripps residents have responded beautifully to their new surroundings.

You are aware that the process of demolition, removal and recycling of the buildings on the site has begun. This process is expected to be completed by the end of May.  All of us associated with Episcopal Home Communities have the highest expectations that this construction will provide Altadena with a new, state of the art retirement community on the site where The Scripps Home has been located since 1913.  We are committed to creating a new facility that will be an attractive and harmonious addition to Altadena and will add value to our town in many ways, while promoting the traditions of care and service for which both The Scripps Home and The Episcopal Home Communities have been known.

We hope that you will attend, so that you can hear first-hand about this project.  If you cannot attend, you may feel free to call me with questions at 626-300-6453.  You may also feel free to use our information line to ask a question at 626-432-4048.

Cordially and sincerely,

James Graunke
Vice President for Community Relations
The Episcopal Home Communities