Pleasant View Lutheran Home is a non-profit continuing care retirement community that has 34 independent living cottages, and 132 skilled nursing beds located on 17.3 acres in Ottawa, IL (LaSalle County) on the former site of Pleasant View Luther College. Pleasant View has served the elderly in the Greater LaSalle County area since 1936. Pleasant View became a subsidiary in 2005 of Lutheran Life Communities, a non-profit senior living system based out of Arlington Heights, IL. The project was a full renovation of a replacement health center which included a new 24 unit assisted living building and a full renovation of the 90 private skilled nursing units in the existing pavilion in Ottawa, Illinois. These units replaced the 132 skilled nursing units. The renovated building transitioned the areas from a traditional sterile medical oriented feel to that of a neighborhood feel within the community.
Upon completion of the new assisted living building, residents of the intermediate care wing moved into the new building and the existing intermediate care building was demolished and replaced with a new administrative wing and town center. The total project was $20 million. On September 23, 2010, bonds were issued in the amount of $16,695,000 to help create and retain 215 full-time jobs.
The Project closed in 2012.