Parade of Homes featuring the best of new homes in Manitoba, Canada
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Northwest Community Spotlight Northwest Neighbourhoods: Amber Trails Headingley ��� Deer Pointe Park McBeth Landing Stonewall ��� Stone Ridge Meadows The Oaks West St. Paul ��� Legend Estates ���It���s not a huge community but it���s wellplanned with an exceptional level of detail��� >> Northwestern Winnipeg, from Deer Pointe and The Oaks in Headingley and Stone Ridge Meadows in Stonewall to the ever-popular Amber Trails in between, continues to shine as one of the city���s greatest new home success stories. Homes for all lifestyles and within reasonable price ranges, as well as an excellent location with access to the Perimeter Highway and abundant shopping and recreation facilities, have helped make the northwestern sector of the city a destination of choice for thousands of new home buyers. For its part in the success story, Stone Ridge Meadows has proven there are decided advantages associated with building a new housing development within an established community. ���That���s the great thing about building in a small town ��� virtually all the amenities you need are there,��� says Genstar Development���s Dave Boles. ���People who���ve bought homes in Stone Ridge Meadows love the fact that Stonewall has a wide range of amenities right in town, from shopping and services to recreation, schools and churches.��� At the same time, the community of more than 4,500 is near enough to the big city to nullify any objections about an onerous amount of travel between the two urban centres. ���The beauty of Stonewall is that it���s close enough to offer an easy commute into the city,��� Mr. Boles says. ���And it���s a nice easy drive on a twinned, four-lane highway ��� much less stressful than the stop-andgo people experience in the city. That���s something people really like about living in Stone Ridge Meadows.��� Spencer Curtis of Hilton Homes says the 50-acre development offers far more than a seamless commute and self sufficiency. ���It offers something that was never done in the area before. It���s not a huge community (with a total of 143 homes to be built by the time construction of phase two, the development���s final phase, concludes), but it���s a well-planned community with an exceptional level of detail.��� ���The paths, mature stands of trees and privacy that it offers all combine to create a very distinctive community. You never forget where you are when you���re there.��� That private, almost cottage-like-community feel is exactly what Genstar was after when they conceived the development, Mr. Boles says. ���We really tried to go out of our way to create a small-town lifestyle that would provide residents with a quiet, private area to go home to. To that end, we did everything we could to maintain the fundamental characteristics of the land. Cont���d on page 102 Parade of Homes Spring 2013 101