Senior Correspondent

Developers Push to Join the Generations

For Joy and Ray Johnson, visiting their two young grandsons once required a three-hour drive. Now it takes only a three-minute walk.

Senior Correspondent

Developers Push to Join the Generations

For Joy and Ray Johnson, visiting their two young grandsons once required a three-hour drive. Now it takes only a three-minute walk.

By David Beasley

Joy, 71, and her husband Ray, 83, moved from Albany in Southwest Georgia to Serenbe, a pastoral community 30 miles south of Atlanta that recently launched a new focus on multigenerational living. The Johnson’s son and daughter-in-law, who live in a house at Serenbe, purchased a townhouse as well, which Joy and Ray rent.