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— Photo from the Facebook page of the Treehouse Foundation 
The Beacon Communities project to be proposed soon at Mercy Care Lane in Guilderland is an intergenerational project that would pair mostly independent-living senior apartments with a small number of families who have adopted foster children. The idea is to build a community, with older residents serving as “stand-in grandparents,” according to Duncan Barrett, president of Beacon Communities Development LLC - New York. The model is Treehouse Foundation in Easthampton, Massachusetts.