Steven Johnson’s owner-side senior-living experience as Director of Design and Construction at The Presbyterian Homes / Brightspire, 2016–2023: seven years coordinating four-community capital programs from planning through occupancy.
From 2016 to 2023, Steven Johnson served as Director of Design and Construction at The Presbyterian Homes, later known as Brightspire. As an in-house owner’s representative, program manager and project manager, he coordinated capital programs across four senior-living communities. This portfolio presents that owner-side leadership experience; the developments were designed and built by their respective project teams, not presented here as Team LINEA commissions.
Planning the capital program. Steven directed site analysis, feasibility, programming, master planning, rezoning and entitlements alongside conceptual budgets and scope development. The work brought housing, licensed care, hospitality, wellness and infrastructure into a coordinated development program.
Connecting design to operations. He brought operations, finance, clinical leadership, facilities, sales and IT/security together with architects, engineers and contractors. Owner requirements, construction documents and regulatory coordination stayed connected as projects moved from planning into the field.
Managing cost, schedule and construction. His responsibilities included budgets, forecasts, contingencies, pay applications and change control across concurrent projects. He reviewed bids, guaranteed maximum prices, constructability and value alternatives, and led procurement through construction-manager-at-risk and competitive-bid delivery.
Bringing communities into operation. The work continued through furniture, fixtures and equipment budgeting and installation, resident punch lists, phased move-ins, facility turnover and post-occupancy issue resolution. Construction delivery was coordinated with the people who would live in, maintain and operate the completed spaces.
Organization history. The Presbyterian Homes became Brightspire in 2022. In 2024, Brightspire and The Well-Spring Group came together under the new parent organization Kintura. Steven’s role covered 2016–2023, before Kintura’s formation.
Glenaire — communicating the design. The community’s 2020 expansion flyover and 2021 drive-through movie present the proposed development as 3D models. They show how a large capital program can be made understandable through a connected view of buildings, outdoor spaces and the campus setting. These are design presentations, not photographs or films of completed construction.
River Landing — seeing the program in the field. The January 11, 2019 campus-expansion film, published by Frank Blum, records an entire-site flyover. It provides a historical view of the development in progress rather than a claim about its current condition.
Friends Homes — from apartment models to a campus update. The 2020 Villa Apartment flyover and Unit A, B and C walkthroughs explore the proposed residential spaces. The separate June 2022 drone film documents the expansion on site. All five films remain on the Friends Homes Continuing Care Retirement Community channel, preserving the original presentation and publisher credit.
Glenaire expansion — 3D design-model drive-through (2021). Published by Glenaire Retirement Community; not completed-building footage.
