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Kanata Baptist Church sponsored this 96 unit $9.73 million mixed apartment and townhouse non-profit housing project designed by architect Ralph VandenBerg and built by Domicile Construction. Together with Gladys Baart, a real estate salesperson with Century 21, we helped the Church to assemble the parcel from a variety of owners, including the City of Kanata, the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton and the Church itself. We then had to encourage a builder to develop an adjacent parcel in order to expedite servicing the site. Construction commenced in the fall of 1993, but our problems were not over.

One bitterly cold night in January, a hitchiker from New Zealand took shelter in one of the partially framed townhouses and set a small fire for warmth. When the Kanata Fire Department left the frozen site the next morning, three blocks of townhouses had been destroyed! Despite this setback, the contractor was able to finish the project in time for occupancy in June, 1994. The project was a real testament to the strength of a vision and to the dedication of a determined and capable team to make it a reality.

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