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nities are plentiful. There are 40 schools in the area, and it���s also home to the Jonathan Toews Community Centre and its indoor hockey rinks, meeting facilities, gym and lawn bowling greens. ���River Park South is the only neighbourhood in the city that can brag about having two lawn bowling greens,��� Mr. Vogan laughs. Southeast Community Spotlight Southeast Neighbourhoods: Ile des Chenes Legend at Creek Bend River Park South Royalwood Sage Creek Waterside Estates outside the city,��� Ms. Matias says. Sage Creek currently has 1,000 homes, with 2,000 more to come, along with a mix of condos, townhomes and a Village Centre for essentials like a dentist, grocery store, bank and coffee shop. St. Vital Centre is a short drive for most of the area���s residents ��� and just a walk for many. Most communities have their own grocery stores, banks, libraries and parks. And there���s no shortage of greenery, from the winding trails and forests along the Seine River to the tall prairie grasses surrounding the ponds of Sage Creek. It���s an area Candice Matias and her husband Marlou Cruzat chose to raise their two-year-old son, and they doubt they���ll ever look back. ���We���ve always liked the area,��� says Ms. Matias, who works in Garden City but doesn���t mind the private time her 20-minute commute provides. Mr. Cruzat has virtually no travel time to his job at the Royal Canadian Mint, just on the other side of Lagimodiere Boulevard. ���We decided to move to the southeast because with IKEA going up in the southwest it just seemed too congested. We wanted to be away from that but not ���Sage Creek is right at the Perimeter, but it���s nice that we don���t have all that traffic. We wanted somewhere where our son could ride his bike and I felt safe.��� But the booming community���s real draws are its diverse homes ��� no two house exteriors are the same ��� and its walkable trail system, framed by tall grasses that help sustain its pond system. ���It���s been an exciting development to start up because we���re able to incorporate a lot of principles that reach back to 1960s and 1970s and even earlier eras where there was a lot of variety in the development and a lot of services,��� Mr. Vogan says. ���We think Sage Creek will be seen as a very complete community.��� River Park South, on the other hand, is nearing completion. The neighbourhood just north of the Perimeter Highway near St. Vital Centre has been a work in progress since 1975 and boasts 7,500 homes. Its fourth and final phase will see 600 more homes built on its southern edge over the next five years. Cont���d on page 12 Parade of Homes Spring 2013 11