Victorian Inn Gets New Life as Assisted Living Center

A Traverse City motel is getting a second life as an assisted living facility.

Traverse Victorian Inn, which Bill and Ron Clous built in 1995 and operated until earlier this year, is now operating as Traverse Victorian Assisted Living. When completed, it will have approximately 64 rooms on two levels. On the first floor, seven rooms are already occupied, four rooms are expected to be ready by mid-June and 19 more should be ready by mid-August.

Twenty-three of the 30 first-floor rooms will be non-ambulatory, for those who can’t move or get around on their own. Deb Banton, who will own and operate the property with her husband, Wayne, says there’s “a very high demand for these types of rooms.”

The Bantons own and manage Country Pleasures Assisted Living five miles south of Traverse City and will also own and operate Water’s Edge Assisted Living, targeted to open this September in the former Gold Coast Inn on U.S. 31 in Acme Township. In March, Bill Clous got a special use permit to convert his bayside hotel into an assisted living home, offering 27 private rooms for ambulatory residents. Acme Township zoning doesn’t allow for non-ambulatory rooms at Water's Edge.