Life abounds in multigenerational apartment complex on college campus

By PATRICIA CORRIGAN

Local retirees, single mothers and their children and retired members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province all are making a home together at Trinity Woods, a four-story apartment complex on the verdant 80-acre campus of Mount Mary University in Milwaukee. From all accounts, the intergenerational living arrangements are a grand success.

Trinity Woods opened in December 2021 as a three-way partnership between Milwaukee Catholic Home, a retirement community that offers independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing care on its Milwaukee campus; the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province; and Mount Mary University, a private Catholic university for women sponsored by the Notre Dame order.

Milwaukee Catholic Home manages Trinity Woods.

“Our board, which includes some School Sisters of Notre Dame, is very intentional about honoring our ministry of service to others in the Roman Catholic faith tradition,” said David Fulcher, chief executive of Milwaukee Catholic Home. “The genesis of Trinity Woods was to provide housing for some of

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