The historic Catholic convent Villa Assumpta at Charles Street and Bellona Avenue in Towson is getting a new senior living community.

Baltimore-based Roland Park Place, which owns and operates a senior living community across from The Rotunda in Hampden, said Wednesday that it plans to begin construction and renovations on the Towson facilities in late 2028 and open in fall 2030.

Roland Park Place’s existing campus sits on the edge of Roland Park and Hampden and includes two buildings of one- and two-bedroom independent living apartments, an arts and education center, dining and short- and long-term care.

Roland Park Place is using the acquisition of the Towson property, once occupied by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, to grow “without expanding its original campus footprint” while “thoughtfully repurposing an existing space,” according to a company press release.

It comes as the region’s population ages and demand for full-service senior living options continues to rise, Sam Guedouar, president and CEO of Roland Park Place, said in a statement.

The School Sisters of Notre Dame purchased the 9-acre property in Towson in 1937 to host its nun training program for young women. The School Sisters of Notre Dame helped found Baltimore’s Notre Dame Preparatory School, the Institute of Notre Dame and the University of Notre Dame of Maryland.

Villa Assumpta was home to the congregation of women for more than 70 years. The Maria Health Care Center once occupied the lower levels but shuttered in 2021.

About 37 nuns moved to Stella Maris, a nursing home and long-term care facility in Timonium, this year as the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s Atlantic-Midwest Province prepared to sell the Charles Street property last fall, according to the Catholic Review.

“Roland Park Place’s thoughtful vision ensures that the legacy of the School Sisters of Notre Dame lives on in new ways at our Charles Street property,” Sister Nancy Gilchriest, the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s provincial leader, said in a statement.