20 Blueberry Lane, Falmouth
(207) 781-4460
OceanView at Falmouth has kept a thoughtful eye toward sustainability as it has grown over the past 35+ years. OceanView is a Maine owned and managed family business that offers active retirement living to approximately 400 residents on a beautifully wooded and landscaped 80-acre campus just minutes from Portland. OceanView residents enjoy maintenance-free and stress-free living in a variety of independent cottage homes, apartments, assisted living, and memory care. Residents have access to a wide range of social, physical, wellness, and spiritual programs along with trips to museums, shows, and events around southern Maine. Residents can also take advantage of the campus’s many amenities, including a heated saltwater four-season pool, movie theater, library, three dining venues, and a new state-of-the-art Fitness Pavilion with 40 fitness classes a week run by a staff of personal trainers.
All of this with the peace of mind knowing that support is available in the future if needed through OceanView’s continuum of care. OceanView is proud to have earned a “Business Leadership Award” by ecomaine. Residents and staff enthusiastically support clean energy technologies and the reduction of carbon pollution. With a growing number of solar panels and other green initiatives, OceanView management and residents are determined to provide an active, maintenance-free retirement lifestyle with a focus on environmental sustainability.
Sustainability
OceanView’s commitment to sustainability continues to expand with the help of the Sustainability Coordinator, a new position at OceanView. As of summer 2023, there are over 1,700 total solar panels on campus. In the spring of 2023, OceanView and ReVision Energy completed the Whipple Farm Solar Project, which installed over 800 new solar panels onto 38 cottages. Now, more than half of OceanView’s cottages are solar powered. To further reduce the community’s carbon footprint, naturalization projects are underway to make the campus a better steward for pollinators and other wildlife, including the new 6,500 sq. ft. wildflower meadow that has produced thousands of flowers since spring began. OceanView composts a substantial portion of its food waste, uses compostable utensils and to-go containers, and continues to expand its recycling capacity in its robust Zero Sort Recycling program with more sustainability efforts underway for the months and years ahead.
“I love the solar electricity. My bills are considerably lower than what I was paying.”
“OceanView has done a notable job of demonstrating that both large scale and small scale sustainability programs are achievable and replicable. We have a growing need for senior housing solutions and OceanView is an exemplary, very relevant model to other developers across the state.”
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