Choose a special brew in the looseleaf tea bar or practise yoga poses in a studio with a back-lit Himalayan rock salt wall. Indulge the senses in a rooftop herb garden, play games with the grandchildren in specially designed intergenerational spaces or host a family meal in a function room set up like a living room. These will be just some of the options for residents at Opal, a planned development for seniors in Vancouver’s Cambie Village. The $106-million Opal retirement community is the flagship for Element Lifestyle Retirement, the development management company founded by Don Ho, who pioneered the concept of “continuum of lifestyles” — the idea of aging in place — more than 20 years ago.