Pacific Landing president Randy Royer, looking out over Esquimalt Lagoon from inside historic Pendray House.
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ANDY ROYER IS SO INSPIRED by his vision for a new village in Colwood, he plans to buy a unit there himself. “I’ve always found it hard to leave the site,” says Royer, the Calgary-based president of Pacific Landings, a $90 million project at the historic Havenwood site on the edge of Esquimalt Lagoon.
Planned in several phases over the next five years, the 12-acre property will ultimately house a multi-use village with condos, a boutique hotel and spa, grocery, pharmacy and clothing stores, gallery, restaurant, artisan studios, kiosks, and even a performing arts centre. “It’s not just a village, it’s a whole concept of service,” says Royer, who has been involved in the development of 35 37