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Stone Creek Resorts plans new residential venture for Silvertip at Canmore

Printed Apr 19, 2023  •  3 minute learn

John Third, vice-president of neighborhood engagement and gross sales and advertising for Silvertip, helps plan a brand new residential improvement for Stone Creek Resorts designed across the picturesque Silvertip golf course at Canmore. Picture by Courtesy, John Third /Postmedia Community

Driving west on the Trans-Canada Freeway, one is all the time shocked by the primary views of the Rockies, a panorama that wants a head flip to take all of them in. An impressive instance of the wonders of creation.

Some get to get pleasure from dwelling amongst them in Canmore — little surprise that with building restrictions in Banff, the city continues to develop as extra individuals wish to make their residence there or personal a spot the place they will spend leisure time away from the hustle and bustle of metropolis dwelling.

One in all Canmore’s many high-quality developments is by Stone Creek Resorts on the north aspect of the freeway, designed round its picturesque Silvertip golf course.

The primary improvement welcomed homeowners in 1994-95 and now boasts greater than 350 residents. The golf course opened in 1996.

The course has been a favorite amongst golfers — in 2022 it recorded 22,000 rounds. The membership home assembly areas and restaurant has additionally grow to be an enormous attraction — together with the attractive mountain setting — the selection for 140 wedding ceremony celebrations final 12 months.

Now it is able to deliver to market extra residential choices whereas additionally planning on-site lodge lodging.

The person accountable for directing the brand new phases is John Third, a passionate Canmore resident who first turned related to Silvertip and Stone Creek in 1992, however in 2004 he went out on his personal to seek the advice of within the improvement of each residential and leisure properties.

Third’s consultancy work engaged him with purchasers in each Canada and the U.S., together with dwelling for a time in North Carolina to advertise a formidable improvement referred to as Mountain Air — greater than 1,000 acres carved out of the rugged land and luxurious forests within the Blue Ridge Mountains.

After an thrilling enterprise working within the Cayman Islands, leisure actual property additionally beckoned in California, working with premier homebuilder Centex Properties, after which it was three years in Surrey, B.C., as govt vice-president of improvement for Whetstone Properties, builder of City West Village within the metropolis.

Returning to Canmore allowed Third to be concerned in that neighborhood, in addition to in Calgary the place he lately accomplished his 5, two-year phrases as a board member of the Calgary Stampede, throughout which era he chaired the Cowboys on line casino committee.

Third was concerned within the planning and improvement of two Canmore initiatives — Versant at Stewart Creek and Silvercreek Lodge — earlier than rejoining CEO and founding father of Stone Creek Resorts, Man Turcotte, in March of 2021.

As vice-president of each neighborhood engagement and gross sales and advertising for each Silvertip and the corporate’s Eagle Ranch Resort in Invermere, B.C., he’s working with the city of Canmore and designers, planners, engineers and contractors on main initiatives which can be already producing a lot pleasure.

It has been 15 years since a brand new actual property providing has been introduced at Silvertip, however now approval has been obtained for its complete of 600 acres providing a 58-lot property subdivision, which is able to embody 34 single-family heaps starting from $900,000 to $1.6 million. A pre-sale providing of 20 heaps has already resulted in 13 gross sales, with a median value of $1.2 million.

Third says consumers are primarily from Calgary, then Edmonton, Ontario and as far-off as Florida.

Twenty-four villa heaps are underneath contract to Alison Grafton, the dynamic president and co-founder of Rockwood Customized Properties, that will likely be delivered to market later this 12 months.

Third can be engaged on the event of 100 residential single-level condominium models, with vacationer properties as a permitted zoning.

Stone Creek has additionally subdivided a portion of Silvertip Village lands with the intent of constructing a five-star mountain lodge. Discussions are underway with main lodge manufacturers to handle 90 resort lodging models.

The Canmore market affords a singular alternative to personal mountain actual property solely an hour from Calgary and its main airport, and Silvertip is increasing its actual property program to fulfill discriminating consumers.

Notes:

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David Parker seems repeatedly within the Herald. Learn his columns on-line at calgaryherald.com/enterprise. He could be reached at 403-830-4622 or by electronic mail at [email protected]

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