Developers plan apartments at former Green Briar nursing home

MILLBROOK — A developer has submitted plans to renovate the old Green Briar Adult Home into residences.

Developers Kingston Investors tentatively plan to build 16 rental units, utilizing the existing farmhouse and rebuilding an addition for the apartments. Currently there are no plans for affordable housing units, but the new owners say they’re open to discussions. The existing building footprint is about 15,000 square feet, and the new developments will be about the same size.

Green Briar’s closure concluded a 40 year run as a nursing home and assisted living facility. Prior to closing, Green Briar had been marred by disputes between the home’s residents and their neighbors.

Accusations of lawbreaking, drunken behavior, and frequent police activity led to calls for a stricter vetting process. In 2018, a Green Briar resident was arrested for theft from a neighboring property. A member of the nursing home’s staff member was arrested that same year for sexually assaulting a Green Briar resident.

In 2019, police and rescue squads frequented the property to break up fights and conduct psychiatric evaluations.

The property was closed by the Department of Health in 2023.

After the closure, the property fell into disrepair. The 4-acre property, located at 26 Old Route 82, consists of two adjoining structures: a farmhouse dating back to the 1920s and a 1970s addition.

Kingston Investors acquired the former nursing home for $400,000 in January 2026. “We saw a neglected property in need of transformation that could provide much needed housing to the local community,” said the company’s vice president David Krulewitch. “We do not plan to run a healthcare facility at the site.”

Kingston Investors hired Millbrook’s Sloan Architects to reimagine the space for residential apartments. “Our current thinking is to rehabilitate the 1920s farmhouse into rental apartments, demolish the 1970s structure, and build additional rental apartments in its place,” Krulewitch said. “Our design intends to blend in with the country aesthetic of the surrounding community.” The two northern acres abutting neighboring properties will remain as open space.

In July, Kingston and Sloan Architects presented their proposal to the Town of Washington Planning Board in a pre-application meeting. The application emphasized that the plan “preserves open space, reduces the existing lot coverage by 3% compared to existing conditions, and enables a transformation of a blighted property.”

Having received positive feedback, the developers are now working with land use counsel to further refine the plans. Krulewitch said they hope to reappear before the Planning Board in the fall with revised designs.