Middleton Crossing, A Sky Active Living Community

Wendy

I toured Middleton Crossing, A Sky Active Living Community. I wasn't particularly impressed. I thought the place was old, and they were in the process of redecorating it. They had three meals a day and some classes that you could take. The staff was okay. She showed us a place to live, and that was it. The layout was alright. They didn't have a walk-in tub for both their bathrooms. The cleanliness was good. They have a big dining room. It was well-lit. They could have shown us more than just an apartment.

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Joseph

It was very warm. The person who showed me the place was very nice and they provided me with lunch. They gave me transportation to visit the place. They had good outreach. It was just a little further out away from where my home farm was where my family stays when they're in town, and transportation for appointments was an issue there. The facility was very, very nice. I was impressed with the place. It was beautiful. They had a large beautiful dining area. They had nice outside spaces and terraces when the weather was good. It's a very nice physical location. The staff was exceptional. They were warm and inviting people. The food was excellent. They had options on the menu.

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Samantha

It was wonderful. Tawni was our tour guide, and she also had me sit down and have lunch with her. The food's great. The facility is lovely. There's lots of activities for seniors, and there's some nice longevity with the staff. The two bedrooms are spacious, as well as the one bedroom that I looked at. It could absolutely accommodate my parents. I think we're looking at the two bedrooms if we decide to go there. They allow dogs, so it's very pet friendly. It was just a very positive experience. There's a ton of activities. They have different fit classes and clubs that a lot of the seniors actually put on themselves. They have a store, book clubs, knitting clubs, and sports nights. You name it. I think pretty much if the seniors want to do it, they will make it happen there, which is lovely. It seems like they try to ensure that seniors have a greater purpose and have lots to do to keep them active. They have a big dining area. Everything is very social. I think they're going to be doing a renovation in the next couple of years as Tawni said, so it will be even nicer than what I saw, but it was already nice, friendly, and clean.

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Rose

I toured the independent living. It's not continuing care, and that's kind of what I'm looking for. I liked that the people were very nice, so that was good. The staff was very, very nice. I have tried their food, and it was good. The facilities seemed OK, too. They had a salon. They didn't have a gym, but I think they had exercise classes. They had a small patio, but I did not see a courtyard. The place was clean from what I could see. The bedrooms I saw were of average size. Old Sauk Road is a good city highway. The only thing that I was not pleased with was the kitchen accommodation. I think they said you had to bring your own microwave, and there was also no stove. The staff said some people brought a hot plate, and I would want a place with a little bit of a galley kitchen or something like that.

Ed

We were able to visit here. The bad thing about that is that they cook all your meals for you, and we cook our own meals. We want independent living and in independent living is that we do everything ourselves, our own cooking and what-have-you. I like it. I thought it would be a nice place. The reason we rejected it is that they cook all your meals for you, and we don't like that. We cook our own meals and we like going out to eat periodically. That's the one problem they have, and if you take away that, I thought everything was nice. The staff members were very nice and they appeared to be competent. Everything seemed to be clean and dusted. It wasn't dirty. What we saw was very good.

Conniebrown

The 1 bedrooms are very spacious, the staff is great, and a nice variety of activities. I would definitely recommend it.

Sabrina646586

My mother is in here. It feels like a cruise ship. They're very good, provide three good meals a day, have a variety of activities, and have a good transportation schedule.

Joan655135

My big objection here was there was no place to park your car except outside. When it's winter and there's snow, you would have to walk outside to get to your car. When you're old, that's not a good idea. The place was clean, and the units were adequate. The food was fine. The activities and everything was fine, and they would take you where you wanted to go.

DonYDWAX

We really like it. The people seemed to be friendly. Their rooms are of very good size. We ate lunch there and their food is very good.

Caring106120850

The staff seemed really good during our visit there. The lady who gave me the tour was really knowledgeable. The rooms looked really clean and adequate for an individual. The place looked nice. One of the top things I like about this place is their dining area.

Audrey13

It is closer to where I live, so that even if mom would have to be outside of her area in Milwaukee, at least, she would be within twenty-five minutes drive from me. The marketing person that I saw was very personable and worked with me very well to fit in a visit with my work schedule. She was the only one who insisted that I come during a mealtime, so I could experience the quality of the food and even though they were apparently between permanent chefs, the food seemed to be really good, what I had was yummy. There were lots of choices, it was like restaurant food and they had a large dining room. We saw two one-bedroom apartments and they were quite nice. One was a little newer than the other, but neither one was nearly as spacious. I could see a person living comfortably in a one-bedroom apartment at this facility because it did have a homelike feeling. They did have different levels of care where if ever they could start out with independent living, but if they needed additional care down the road, they will be able to stay in the same community rather than having to move someplace else. It seemed that the staff members were really attuned to the residents when we were there. I was also impressed when the marketing person was taking me around on a tour that a couple of residents came up to her and they were just saying hi and greeting her. One gentleman had a difficulty with his cellphone and she took the time to figure out the phone's problem for him, which was very sweet. It seemed like they have quite a number of activities going on. She showed me a schedule of events where they have these posted in several common areas downstairs and they also would have calendars that they would post at each resident's door. So everybody always had a copy of the monthly calendar of all of the events that were going on. They had shopping excursions, at least three of them a week, so one of them would have been to a certain grocery store and another one would have been like the Walgreens and other places for basic necessities. Then, they also had special things where they would go to various social activities like the movies, and also they had opportunities for the residents to have volunteer tasks.

Barbara86336050

I loved it, but it was too far away from our kids. The people were friendly, and I just liked everything about it, even the food. They treated us great. They seemed very considerate. They told us a lot. Only thing we had against them was that they didn’t have a continuous care. I understood that there, we would stay in the same apartment and people would come in and take care of us. One thing was they didn’t have an apartment to show us. So we saw a room they had made out of two 1-bedrooms, and we didn’t like that all. But it was very pleasant. I couldn’t say anything bad about it. We didn’t see many people, except in the dining room, where we met one lady that had just moved there, and she liked it a lot.