outside the city,” Ms. Matias says. “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.” 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, gro- cery store, bank and coffee shop. But the booming community’s real draws are its diverse homes – no two house ex- teriors 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 incorpo- rate 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 neighbour- hood just north of the Perimeter High- way 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.
nities are plentiful. There are 40 schools in the area, and it’s also home to the Jon- athan Toews Community Centre and its indoor hockey rinks, meeting facilities, gym and lawn bowling greens. “River Park South is the only neighbour- hood in the city that can brag about hav- ing two lawn bowling greens,” Mr. Vogan laughs. 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 sur- rounding the ponds of Sage Creek. It’s an area Candice Matias and her hus- band 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 south- east because with IKEA going up in the southwest it just seemed too congested. We wanted to be away from that but not
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