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June 25, 2014
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LAKESTONE
On the water
development partner Bob Glass, Rob Macdonald of Macdonald Development Corp., local MP Ron Cannan, Lake Country Mayor James Baker and Lake Country’s director of community services Mark Koch shovel the ceremonial first scroops of dirt for construction of the Water Club at Lakestone.
It’s prime season for getting on the water. This paddler is doing it right wearing proper safety gear. ...............................
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council has shot down a staff recommendation to approve development variance permits for a property on Chase Road. One letter writer said the construction and increased traffic would jeopardize the safety of the 50 or so children living on four roads in the vicinity. ...............................
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▼ LAKESTONE DEVELOPMENT
Breaking ground on new $3.5m clubhouse ALISTAIR WATERS A housing development described by Lake Country Mayor James Baker as the largest single development ever in municipality, has broken ground on an elaborate new $3.5 million clubhouse for its residents. The Lake Club as it will be known, will be a large two-storey, glass-fronted building complete with an outdoor swimming pool, hot tubs, a fitness facility,
a barbecue area, outdoor kitchen and catering facilities, as well as storage for resident’s watercraft, like canoes and kayaks. It will sit just above a public beach that the Vancouver-based developer, Macdonald Development Corp. is creating as part of the Lakestone project. The project, just off Okanagan Centre Road West, is being built on 550 acres and when built out will include 1,356 homes, most of them
single family houses. “This is Okanagan living at its best,” said Baker during a ceremony to break ground on the clubhouse. “And Lake Country is the place to do it.” The plans for Lakestone go back nearly nine years, said Baker, when the former owner and first developer of the proper approached the District of Lake Country with its plans. Baker said the district saw an opportunity
to not only help with the growth of the municipality but also to get some much-needed off site improvements done to both nearby Okanagan Centre Road West— which leads to the development—and to area water and serwer services. When the former developer balked, Macdonald moved in and bought the property. Owner Rob Macdonald said he saw the potential of the stunning
hillside site that overlooks Okanagan Lake right away. Macdonald’s company has experience building here, having developed the nearby Lakes development, as well as theThe Cove Resort in West Kelowna and the Outback near Vernon. In his remarks, he praised the district, saying it was very easy to work with, not an experience he has had working in Vancouver on many projects.
Lakestone, which has already sold many of the lots in the first of four offerings it plans to make as part of the the first phase of development, is expected to include some duplexes higher up on the site, close to Okanagan Centre Road West, said Macdonald. On the site,it will also create three new roads that will be turned over the municipality.
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