Patent ID: 7779585

Claim:
A combined shopping center and apartment complex for the elderly and the elderly with handicaps in the form of a multistory building structure including shopping facilities on a ground level and at least one dwelling story located on an upper level of the building, each dwelling story comprising: at least two laterally spaced, generally parallel rows of dwelling units each consisting of a plurality of individual dwelling units joined in side-by-side relation, a continuous enclosed walkway system sufficiently wide to permit easy use by people using wheelchairs, walkers or motorized carts, as well as by pedestrians and extending around and separating said at least two dwelling unit rows on each said dwelling level, said enclosed walkway system being surrounded on all sides by a solid wall from floor to ceiling, and access door means leading to said enclosed walkway system on opposed sides of each dwelling unit, wherein the walkway includes an exterior portion extending around the outer peripheral wall of each dwelling story, said exterior portion of the walkway having one wall defined by the building exterior wall extending substantially around the entire building and including windows providing a view from the walkway to the exterior of the building.