Country Music Association Retirement Home

Wrote Rhymer Rigby in a May 15, 2009 Financial Times story, "In the U.S., plans for a highly targeted retirement community are under way. The Country Music Association has announced that it will break ground for a $95 million (£63m) senior living facility for musicians near Nashville, Tennessee. Along with living quarters, it will boast recording studios and performance spaces; there will also be a fund to help those of limited means."

"According to country star Martina McBride, who sits on the project's board: 'Residents will have other people from the industry to talk with and share memories. This is not just some kind of assisted living facility.' Rather, she says, they will still be connected to Music Row, the heart of country music in Nashville."

To be called The Crescendo at Westhaven, it will be open to all seniors, not merely retired musicians, but "... the facility will court country music-industry veterans since its inception came from the local industry's desire 'to take care of its own,'" wrote Lisa L. Rollins in a November 18, 2008 story.