The Collegedale-Ooltewah area has become the location of Greenbriar Cove, a master planned retirement community specially designed for active adults aged 55 and older. The project is a joint collaboration between Independent Healthcare Properties, LLC, a locally based senior services company and owner of Morning Pointe assisted living facilities throughout the Southeast, and the Monroe family, who has owned the property on Ooltewah-Ringgold Road for more than 60 years.

Greenbriar Cove is comprised of both commercial, medical office and retirement-related buildings and a residential community with a collection of six neighborhoods that is constructed in a series of phases totaling 225 homes.

Greenbriar Cove is situated on 100 picturesque acres containing mature trees and rolling green terrain in a valley at the base of White Oak Mountain. The community is patterned after successful master planned retirement communities such as Sun City developments by Del Webb Communities, Inc.

Located along Ooltewah-Ringgold Road, construction is complete on the two healthcare services components of the retirement community.  Morning Pointe of Collegedale at Greenbriar Cove opened in August 2006 and features 58 assisted living apartments.  The Lantern at MorningPointeCenter of Excellence for Alzheimer’s and Memory Care opened in November 2006 and offers care in 30 apartments.  The first residential neighborhood completed and sold out is The Village at Greenbriar Cove with 40 patio homes.  Phase II of the residential construction is underway and includes The Cottages, a neighborhood of 58 single-level homes ranging in size from approximately 1,840 to 2,242 square feet.  Lake lot and estate lot sales are underway.  Also planned for the community are a 120-apartment retirement apartment building, professional and medical offices and a financial institution.  For more information on home and lot sales, contact sales agent Janell Liles.  Site work has been completed on the Greenbriar Cove clubhouse, with construction of the building to begin in 2007.

Professionally designed, landscaping and all structures will be high quality to enhance the surrounding areas. At Greenbriar, potential residents will be choosing more than just a house—they will be choosing a lifestyle.

The design will focus on providing residents with user-friendly streets, old fashioned street lights, side-walks, walking trails and golf cart paths for easy access to the neighborhoods' estimated 17 acres of parkland and conservation areas and mixed-use services. Residents will be afforded areas to interact with each other and to enjoy their surroundings through a combination clubhouse and community center, a pavilion, a wildlife nature preserve area with wildflowers, a bird habitat and vegetable garden area. There will be four lakes on the property with berms and landscaping bordering the perimeter of the development. Some of the home sites will be lake front and lake view.

The new master planned community is adjacent to the Collegedale Four Corners area, Collegedale City Hall and Hamilton County Library, Veterans Park, Wolftever Greenway and Life Care Center of Collegedale skilled nursing center. The new Collegedale Community Church of Seventh-day Adventists is under construction adjacent to Greenbriar Cove. In addition, numerous other churches also surround the development.