Finnish community center in Lake Worth

Finlandia Week activities were jointly coordinated by both Finnish community centers Finland House (Suomi Talo) and the American Finnish Community Club, AFCC, (Kerho Talo). The original reason for the two separate organizations-that one was communist-oriented and the other was not - appears to have abated over time. 

If examined at the state or county level, one could think of this retirement community as an enclave. But Finns appear to be well dispersed within the Lake Worth and Lantana area and could thus be viewed as a dispersal according to the Boal model introduced above. 

Black developers have reacted to this issue with black retirement facilities. Examples include the Fry Retirement Community in Greensboro, North Carolina, Cameron Cove in Prince Georges County, Maryland, the future Ivy Acres in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and Martin County, North Carolina. Chamber Clemetson state that for many seniors, African-American retirement communities provide, at a reasonable cost (as little as 250 a month), what they could never have imagined a place to enjoy their golden years, surrounded by gospel music, African-American art and peers who share their life experiences.  

Ivy Acres, originating with the black Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, will be a 32 million project on 48 acres (19.4 ha). The project, which has been in the planning stages for a decade, will be the first minority-owned and sponsored retirement facility among 900 retirement facilities in the United States. It will be a continuous care community, with 188 independent living units, 40 assisted living apartments, and 20 skilled nursing beds. Thus, this will not be a retirement community as defined in this chapter. 

As the black middle class has grown among the baby boom generation, blacks are seen in the promotional brochures of the Del Webb Corporation communities (El Nasser, 2005). 

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